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“I promised I'd save him, take him home! I promised him!" . . . Thomas hugged Chuck to his chest, squeezed him as tightly as possible, as if that could somehow bring him back, or show thanks for sav...”
“Today i want to talk to you, and you don't have time. Tomorrow you would desperately want to talk to me and I won't be around”
“...spiritual or emotional pain doesn't become a memory so much as a bruise ...”
“When we encounter a friend who's depressed or afraid, we automatically try to take that distress away and to cheer the person up. While we may be operating with the best of intentions, this Band-Ai...”
“Sometimes we represent our weakness as if it were bad. We dont think its okay to be weakWe have been injured in many ways and our real self houses all of the evidence of those injuries. The pain, t...”
“This isnt how things were supposed to happen. I was supposed to be me. Not this.”
“No matter how many times you say you'll give up with words, if your heart still says "love", there's nothing to be done.”
“We all have scars; both inside and out. Use your experience to support those who are going down the same road of destruction you once went down. Know that your past is worth more than the pain you ...”
“Were too often guilty of thinking that our parents arrived on this planet as fully functioning adults on the day that we were born. That they dont have pasts of their own prior to our birth. That t...”
“...the secret to writing is to get your own pain - shout it out till it hurts your throat - weep it into your pillow - then write it down ...”
“What was he thinking falling in love with her again, opening himself to another world of hurt when she leftknowing she would leave? She was a lawyer, working in the big city, used to fancy things, ...”
“Our spirit requires freedom in every area of our lives. The barriers that stop our soul from free expression are doubt, guilt, resentment, and thoughts of lack or limitation.”
“Emotional pain was the price I paid on the path to becoming a woman. So excuse me if Im not clueless like a little girl.”
“If only they could listen with their hearts & not their minds, maybe then they would understand that often times it's the emotions not spoken that are longing to be heard.”
“I fight with you because i care. Now, when i stop fighting with you, thats when you should really start worrying.”
“I prick my hand as I seize the rose from her. Ill think about it. A small spot of blood forms on my palm and I realize Ive been bleeding on the inside this whole time, all these years. It was only ...”
“If you can sit with your pain, listen to your pain and respect your pain — in time you will move through your pain.”
“I wish I could take my brain and put it inside your head,” Winslow said. “Just for a moment. Then you’d know what all I can’t find how to say.”
“This isn’t how things were supposed to happen. I was supposed to be me. Not this.”
