Quotes About Healing

And when times are terrible, soup is the answer.

But, alas, he never really belonged in either place, the sad fate, I am afraid, of those whose hearts break and then mend in crooked ways.

It was important to me to hear how Littmus survived after losing everything he loved.

It is all gone , though Peter. All of it is gone! And there is no way to get it back. 'Eat,' said Leo Matienne again, very gently. Peter looked the truth of what he had lost full in the face. And then he ate.

There are those hearts, reader, that never mend again once they are broken. Or, if they do mend, they heal themselves in a crooked and lopsided way, as if sewn together by a careless craftsman.

It was because he had not loved Abilene enough. And now she was gone from him. And he would never be able to make it right.

All living things have a heart. And the heart of any living thing can be broken.

was important to me to hear how Littmus survived after losing everything he loved.

The dried yellow petals of St. John's wort, which Old Marie called 'chase-devil' for the way it could drive the megrims away. Gaudy calendula, bright as the sun. Sweet-smelling lemon balm, guaranteed to lift the spirits with its aroma alone.

Had she been broken and healed all awry, like a bone that had not been properly set?

Fairy tales ... give us hope that we can somehow be saved, rescued, healed. Transformed in some way for the better. As we travel with the fairy tale protagonist through the dark and dangerous forest, as we suffer with them and triumph with them, we follow them back into the brightness of a world renewed. Fairy tales are an instruction manual for psychological healing.

Aber das hat dich krank gemacht, fuhr sie fort. Nicht sein Tod, sondern das danach.

Aber ich wollte nicht genesen, wenn ich dafür das wenige, das mir von meinem Bruder geblieben war, aufgeben musste.

Die derzeitigen und früheren Bewohner von Nulle wussten, wie abgründige Trauer den Geist zerfrisst.

Jess's feelings about Leslie's father poked up like a canker sore. You keep biting it, and it gets bigger and worse instead of better.

for them, not just something that makes you feel good giving it. Because Mrs. Myers had helped him already by understanding that he would never forget Leslie. He thought about it all day, how before Leslie came, he had been a nothing—a stupid, weird little kid who drew funny pictures and chased around a cow

Mother put it like this: "Besides taking out my misplaced appendix, he put all my other insides just where they should have been.

How do you unlove somebody?

God made beauty and love from ashes.

Books took away the pain and disappointment, they always did. Books closed bad doors and opened good ones.

Los libros le borraron el dolor y la decepción. Los libros cerraban las puertas malas y abrían las buenas. Rachel no recordaba cuándo había leído su primer libro y no recordaba ninguna ocasión en que no hubiera estado leyendo algo.

Death bears with it a stain that seeps into the hollow and fills the mind.

He played for over an hour, and I felt a peace steal over my soul, and yes, I felt the bruises in my heart. But to be bruised is to be human, to be coursing with blood. For bruises are caused by blood spilled under the skin. They are the tears that bleed inside.

Time does not heal, It makes a half-stitched scar That can be broken and again you feel Grief as total as in its first hour. -Elizabeth Jennings