Quotes about Healing

I wondered if damaged people ever got over what damaged them.

No matter what, the past would follow around. A sorry soul that only grew heavier in each town. She couldn't run away.

if a person doesn't speak her mind she will carry her resentment until it burns her

She understood love. What destroys you saves you, she had told me.

When your father doesn't love you, a stone forms inside of you, hard and sharp enough to pierce through bone.

Sometime after the accident, her parents stopped talking to each other unless they needed to discuss a household chore or a doctor's appointment. It's true, tragedy can bring you closer or drive you apart.

Loss does different things to different people. Some fall apart. Some, like the Finder, rebuild. I have done both. I have crawled under my table and refused to come out. I have covered myself with thorns and tattoos. I have planted a garden, reached out to my neighbors, begun to write down my story.

Never be without thread," she told the girl. "What is broken can also be mended. Remember that in your dark days, as I have.

Oh, Celie, unbelief is a terrible thing. And so is the hurt we cause others unknowingly.

The only way to solace anyone who loved you in life is to be a good memory

T}here is a point at which even grief feels absurd. And at this point, laughter gushes up to retrieve sanity.

No one escapes a time in life when the arrow of sorrow, of anger, of despair pierces the heart. For many of us, there is the inevitable need to circle the wound. It is often such a surprise to find it there, in us, when we had assumed arrows so painful only landed in the hearts of other people. Some of us spend decades screaming at the archer. Or at least for longer periods than are good for us. How to take the arrow out of the heart? How to learn to relieve our own pain? That is the question.