Quotes About Healing

See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are still in it. And the very act of living is a tide: at first it seems to make no difference at all, and then one day you look down and see how much pain has eroded.

Things that break - be they bones, hearts, or promises - can be put back together but will never really be whole.

After all, how many of us had tried to forget something traumatic...only to find it printed on the back of our eyelids, tattooed on our tongues?

Sometimes I think the human heart is just a simple shelf. There is only so much you can pile onto it before something falls off an edge and you are left to pick up the pieces.

Relationships always sounded so physically painful: you fell in love, you broke a heart, you lost your head. Was it any wonder that people came through the experience with battle scars?

Scars are just a treasure map for pain you've buried too deep to remember.

Things break all the time. Day breaks, waves break, voices break. Promises break. Hearts break.

when you [lose someone], it feels like the hole in your gum when a tooth falls out. You can chew, you can eat, you have plenty of other teeth, but your tongue keeps going back to that empty place, where all nerves are still a little raw

I knew what it was like to lose someone you loved. You didn't get past something like that, you got through it.

That's the paradox of loss: How can something that's gone weigh us down so much?

The mind is a remarcable thing. Just because you can't see the wound doesn't mean it isn't hurting

It does'nt matter who forgives you, if you're the one who can't forget.

I had the heart of the relationship, and no body to grow it in... It broke.

I think grief is like a really ugly couch. It never goes away. You can decorate around it; you can slap a doily on top of it; you can push it to the corner of the room—but eventually, you learn to live with it.

When someone dies, it feels like the hole in your gum when a tooth falls out. You can chew, you can eat, you have plenty of other teeth, but your tongue keeps going back to that empty place, where all the nerves are still a little raw.

If you think about someone you've loved and lost, you are already with them. The rest is just details.

And oh she had been broken. She hid it well, but Ross knew from personal experience that once you had put the pieces together, even though you might look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall

What you had could never make up for what you'd lost.

But there is a different between mending someone who's broken and finding someone who makes you complete.

Here's what no one ever tells you about love: it hurts, having your heart broken

something is always falling apart in me.

Once the world was pulled out from beneath your feet, did you ever get to stand on firm ground again?

I pointed to the wound. It's missing, I said. My grandmother smiled, and that was all it took for me to stop seeing the scar, and to recognize her again. Yes, she said. But see how much of me is left?

A bruise is how the body remembers it's been wronged.