Quotes About Healing

I want a pain that has a beginning and an end, not one that goes on forever and cuts all the way to the bone.

I drop her on the cot and turn away and grab my hair and pull until it hurts. I want to pull all of it out. Every single piece. I want a pain I understand instead of the one I don't. I want a pain that has a beginning and an end, not one that goes on forever and cuts all the way to the bone.

The most important thing, I think. You can't run from your past. You have to take it for what it is and realize that it's part of you.

I've found in life that bygones are a bit like collard greens. They tend to taste bitter. It's best not to chew on them overly long.

I've finally come to fully understand that you can't fix another person. You can't fix the past. You can only change your way of reacting to it.

The wounds we cause, while unintentional, still bleed.

Kids are supposed to grow up and cut the apron strings. I just never dreamed those sharp scissors would leave so many wounds.

Secrets ain't a healthy thang, no matter how old they is. Sometimes the oldest secrets is the worst of all.

My mama used to say the blues is an ailment that don't like no sunshine in the room.

We all have scars.

realize that grieving is a process. It doesn't stop just because the family wants the parent or grandparent to get on with life.

She bear-hugged me in a way that performed some sort of chiropractic miracle, because when she set me down, the tightness in my back was gone and I was an inch taller.

Someone should tell the dead that saving the living isn't as simple as leaving a note to say, It's no one's fault. For the living, it always feels like someone's fault.

Forgiveness given is forgiveness gained.

One thing that discovering my own history had taught me is that we must learn not to whip ourselves for the failures of others. When a mother cannot love and protect her children, it is not the children who are defective.

I've finally come to fully understand that you can't fix another person. You can't fix the past. You can only change your way of reacting to it. You have to wait for other people to fix themselves.

gave in and let the tears happen. A good rain smooths out the soil, Wilda Culp used to say. I needed a good rain.

want a pain I understand instead of the one I don't. I want a pain that has a beginning and an end, not one that goes on forever and cuts all the way to the bone.

The nanny goat is integral to Lucky Strike's healing.

That's how the grievin' becomes after a time. You've tossed off the black blanket, but scraps of it fall on you unexpected, your life always a quilt with a dark patch or two. The Good Lord uses those to show off the bright colors, I think.

I want a pain I understand instead of the one I don't. I want a pain that has a beginning and an end, not one that goes on forever and cuts all the way to the bone.

Stories are a little like mind places. You can do whatever you want with them. I want my stories to have happy endings, where nobody hurts anybody. There's enough hard stuff in the real world.

In a few years, she would realize that there was nothing she could do to change the world around her, to repair the people she needed most. The missing pieces were out of reach of her tiny hands, the broken places not hers to mend. In my adult mind I understood that, but deep inside me there would always be the girl who wondered if she could have fixed things.

You're not the powerless, scared little girl anymore, I told myself. Nobody's going to whip you with a dowel rod and put you in your room. It's time to grow a backbone.