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• It was common enough, to see so much death and want a child. Common, therefore human, and he wanted it all the more. When the wounded were screaming, you dreamed of sharing a little house somewhere, of an ordinary life, a family line, connection.

  Ian Mcewan

  Children, House, Ordinary

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• I believe that this nation can only heal from the wounds of racism if we all begin to love blackness. And by that I don't mean that we love only that which is best within us, but that we're also able to love that which is faltering, which is wounded, which is contradictory, incomplete.

  Bell Hooks

  Believe, Mean, Racism

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• Thus, when we plead for the gift of charity, we aren't asking for lovely feelings toward someone who bugs us or someone who has injured or wounded us. We are actually pleading for our very natures to be changed, for our character and disposition to become more and more like the Savior's, so that we literally feel as He would feel and thus do what He would do.

  Sheri L. Dew

  Character, Lds, Feelings

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• And a refrigerator may hold a basket of strawberries, which would be important if a maniac said to you, "If you don't give me a basket of strawberries right now, I'm going to poke you with this large stick." But when the two elder Baudelaires and Quigley Quagmire opened the refrigerator, they found nothing that would help someone who was wounded, dying of thirst, or being threatened by a strawberry-crazed, stick-carrying maniac.

  Daniel Handler

  Two, Giving, Important

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• It occured to her that pleasure, no matter how deep, was a ghostly, ephemeral thing. Love might make the world go round, but she was convinced it ws the cries of the badly wounded andf deeply afflicted which spun the universe on the great glass pole of it's axis.

  Stephen King

  Glasses, Axes, World

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• How strange that we should ordinarily feel compelled to hide our wounds when we are all wounded! Community requires the ability to expose our wounds and weaknesses to our fellow creatures. It also requires the ability to be affected by the wounds of others... But even more important is the love that arises among us when we share, both ways, our woundedness.

  M. Scott Peck

  Community, Important, Weakness

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• Outside the Weirwall, Jack could hear the thud of bodies colliding and the cries of the wounded. It seemed like a lot of noise. Even given the fact that Ellen was involved. "Why'd she go out there?" Jack demanded. "Why didn't you stop her?" Brooks spat on the ground. "Have you ever tried to stop Captain Stephenson from anythin'?

  Cinda Williams Chima

  Body, Noise, Captains

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• Time interval is a strange and contradictory matter in the mind. It would be reasonable to suppose that a routine time or an eventless time would seem interminable. It should be so, but it is not. It is the dull eventless times that have no duration whatever. A time splashed with interest, wounded with tragedy, crevassed with joy - that's the time that seems long in the memory. And this is right when you think about it. Eventlessness has no posts to drape duration on. From nothing to nothing is no time at all.

  John Steinbeck

  Memories, Thinking, Long

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.51, Penguin

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• Like officer Dave.He's never said much about his life, but I can tell he's scarred. And he knows I'm scarred too. The wounded always recognize the wounded. We can smell each other.

  Sherman Alexie

  Smell, Dave, Said

  Sherman Alexie (2013). “Flight: A Novel”, p.21, Open Road Media

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• Above all, she is the girl who 'feels' things, who has hung on to the freshness and pain of adolescence, the girl ever wounded, ever young. Now, at an age when the wounds begin to heal whether one wants them to or not, Joan Baez rarely leaves the Carmel Valley.

  Joan Didion

  Girl, Pain, Age

  Joan Didion (2013). “Slouching Towards Bethlehem”, p.42, Zola Books

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• under the present brutal and primitive conditions on this planet, every person you meet should be regarded as one of the walking wounded. we have never seen a man or woman not slightly deranged by either anxiety or grief. we have never seen a totally sane human being.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Grief, Men, Anxiety

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• He read it for the same reason an animal tears at a wounded foot: to hurt the pain.

  Nathanael West

  Hurt, Pain, Animal

  Nathanael West, Jonathan Lethem (2009). “Miss Lonelyhearts: & the Day of the Locust”, p.39, New Directions Publishing

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• Nothin wounded goes uphill, he said. It just dont happen.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Said, Happens

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “No Country for Old Men”, p.12, Pan Macmillan

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• It is because I think so much of warm and sensitive hearts, that I would spare them from being wounded.

  Charles Dickens

  Heart, Thinking, Sensitive

  Charles Dickens (1839). “Oliver Twist”, p.32

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• We have to heal our wounded world. The chaos, despair, and senseless destruction we see today are a result of the alienation that people feel from each other and their environment.

  Michael Jackson

  Healing, People, Despair

  "Michael Jackson, death by showbusiness" by Mick Brown, www.telegraph.co.uk. June 27, 2009.

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• No one can survive childhood without being wounded. Everyone remembers at least one time when their parents rejected them, pushed them away, even though they may have still been in the womb, blind, and unable to speak. That's why, as adults, we all look for someone to become our parents again, and for someone to look after us in times of need. And we search for a person to live with who can provide the companionship we so desperately want.

  Banana Yoshimoto

  Childhood, Parent, Adults

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• She stood looking carefully at the labeled portraits Ursala had put up: Little Crow, Chief of the Santees, Geronimo, last of the Apaches, and Ursala's favorite, Big Foot, dying in the snow at Wounded Knee. "Isn't that where the massacre was?" asked Ellen. "Yes. I'm going to go there when I'm grown up. To Wounded Knee." "That seems sensible," said Ellen.

  Eva Ibbotson

  Feet, Snow, Crow

  Eva Ibbotson (2008). “A Song for Summer”, p.22, Pan Macmillan

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• But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires: To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To know the pain of too much tenderness. To be wounded by your own understanding of love; And to bleed willingly and joyfully. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving; To rest at noon hour and meditate love's ecstasy; To return home at eventide with gratitude; And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise on your lips.

  Khalil Gibran

  Running, Spiritual, Song

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• You are part of my existence, part of myself. You have been in every line I have ever read, since I first came here, the rough common boy whose poor heart you wounded even then. You have been in every prospect I have ever seen since-on the river, on the sails of the ships, on the marshes, in the clouds, in the light, in the darkness, in the wind, in the woods, in the sea, in the streets. You have been the embodiment of every graceful fancy that my mind has ever become acquainted with.

  Charles Dickens

  Heart, Boys, Clouds

  Great Expectations ch. 44 (1861)

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• Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.

  Pema Chodron

  Relationship, Real, Compassion

  Pema Chodron (2003). “Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion”, p.73, Shambhala Publications

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• This is a most unfortunate affair, and will probably be much talked of. But we must stem the tide of idle chatter, and pour into our wounded bosoms the soothing balm of vengeance.

  Seth Grahame-Smith

  Idle Chatter, Tides, Vengeance

  Seth Grahame-Smith, Jane Austen, Roberto Parada (2009). “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance--now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem”, p.262, Chronicle Books

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• Only the wounded healer can truly heal. (97)

  Irvin D. Yalom

  Heal, Healer

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• Isn't hate merely the result of wounded love?

  Amy Tan

  Hate, Results

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.154, Penguin

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• And he sang to them, now in the Elven tongue, now in the speech of the West, until their hearts, wounded with sweet words, overflowed, and their joy was like swords, and they passed in thought out to regions where pain and delight flow together and tears are the very wine of blessedness.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Sweet, Pain, Heart

  J. R. R. Tolkien (1980). “The Lord of the Rings: The return of the King”

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• Their silence comfortable. Something unfolding. But what? Not love, which wrenched and wounded. Not love, which came only once.

  Annie Proulx

  Silence, Unfolding, Comfortable

  Annie Proulx (1994). “The Shipping News”, p.233, Simon and Schuster

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