“Sometimes people say terrible things when they’re scared. They don’t mean to, but they can’t help it. They lash out because if they can see that their words hurt someone else, it makes them feel as if they aren’t completely powerless.”— Jonathan Maberry, amazon.com
“Everyone always wants to know how you can tell when it’s true love, and the answer is this: when the pain doesn’t fade and the scars don’t heal, and it’s too damned late.”— Jonathan Tropper, amazon.com
“You and I both know, the dark doesn’t make the bruises disappear. It just makes them harder to see.”— Iain Thomas, amazon.com
“I want some kind of reminder that while wounds heal, they don’t disappear forever- I carry them everywhere, always, and that is the way of things, the way of scars.”— Veronica Roth, amazon.com
“The human heart has a way of making itself large again even after it’s been broken into a million pieces.”— Robert James Waller, amazon.com
“Some pain shouldn’t be wished away so easily. It had to be dealt with even embraced.”— Rick Riordan, amazon.com
“But pain’s like water. It finds a way to push through any seal. There’s no way to stop it. Sometimes you have to let yourself sink inside of it before you can learn how to swim to the surface.”— Katie Kacvinsky, amazon.com
“I’m still a little bent, a little crooked, but all things considered, I can’t complain.”— Anthony Kiedis, amazon.com
“There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.”— William S. Burroughs, amazon.com
“Memories are bullets. Some whiz by and only spook you. Others tear you open and leave you in pieces.”— Richard Kadrey, amazon.com
“And I have still other smothered memories, now unfolding themselves into limbless monsters of pain.”— Vladimir Nabokov, amazon.com
“My heart aches completely, every hour, every day, and only when I’m with you does the pain go away.”— Ewan McGregor, amazon.com
“This is for the times you went through hell so someone else wouldn’t have to.”— Andrea Gibson, amazon.com