Festered Wound Quotes & Sayings

And, because in some hard core of me, in some stubborn trench of selfish refusal, I could not, even at ten years of age, surrender to anything or anyone, I fought that pain. I analysed its offensive, and found its lines of attack. It festered, like the corruption in a wound turned sour, drawing strength from me. I knew enough to know the remedy. Hot iron for infection, cauterize, burn, make it pure. I cut from myself all the weakness of care. The love for my dead, I put aside, secure in a casket, an object of study, a dry exhibit, no longer bleeding, cut loose, set free. The capacity for new love, I burned out. I watered it with acid until the ground lay barren and nothing there would sprout, no flower take root. — Mark Lawrence

He'd set down his drink and leaned in. "Fine. You want me to elaborate, I will. Here's the deal: I'm a guy. Generally speaking, we're pretty simple folk. I know women always want to think we have these deep, romantic, and emotionally angsty thoughts going on in our heads, but in reality? Not so much. You women have layers and you're complicated and mysterious and you say one thing, but you really mean another, and it's this whole tricky package that intrigues us and scares us and challenges us all at the same time. But men aren't like that. You talk about me not letting you in, but maybe what you don't realize is this: there is no in." He pointed to himself. "It's all right here on the surface, Jessica. What you see is what you get. — Julie James

Just because it's complicated, just because you think you can't ever know everything about another person, it doesn't mean you can't try. — Maria Semple

It is wisdom to recognize necessity when all other courses have been weighed, though as folly it may appear to those who cling to false hope. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Because God is the subject who acts upon me in worship, my participation is not reduced to verbal responses or to singing, but it is living in the pattern of the one who is revealed in worship. — Robert E. Webber

The public likes to think that women only care about contraception. — Nikki Haley

How do I negotiate my way across life with a system that I find so violent yet it seems so normal to many others? — Malebo Sephodi

Escape.. escape.. escape by God. Never mind hunger pains, discomfort, or any other agony. Let escape become your passion, your one and only obsession until you finally reach home. — Richard Pape

cudgel! That's worth thy trouble, — Jacob Grimm

When we are taught that safety lies always with sameness, then difference, of any kind, will appear as a threat — Bell Hooks

Life is for one day, love is for every day. — Santosh Kalwar

I will not get into a pissing contest with that skunk [Joseph McCarthy]. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

I don't want dead paint, so I test many of my works by studying them in a dark room at twilight or even after dark to check the luminosity. If the darker forms still have resonance and luminosity, I know the painting's working. — Will Barnet