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    Madeleine L'Engle
    “Thinking I'm a moron gives people something to feel smug about," Charles Wallace said. "Why should I disillusion them?”
    ― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time
    tags: humor, sarcasm
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    Madeleine L'Engle
    “On the other side of pain, there is still love.”
    ― Madeleine L'Engle
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    Madeleine L'Engle
    “Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are.”
    ― Madeleine L'Engle
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    Madeleine L'Engle
    “We are suspicious of grace. We are afraid of the very lavishness of the gift.”
    ― Madeleine L'Engle, Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art
    tags: grace, madeleine-l-engle, walking-on-water
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    Madeleine L'Engle
    “You don't want him for a reason. You want him because he's your father.”
    ― Madeleine L'Engle (Meg)
    tags: family
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    Madeleine L'Engle
    “I don't understand it any more than you do, but one thing I've learned is that you don't have to understand things for them to be.”
    ― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time
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    Madeleine L'Engle
    “Just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist.”
    ― Madeleine L'Engle
    tags: understanding
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    Madeleine L'Engle
    “The best way to guide children without coercion is to be ourselves.”
    ― Madeleine L'Engle, A Circle of Quiet
    tags: children, parenting
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    Madeleine L'Engle
    “She always had to have someone to love...She couldn't seem to believe that anyone could really love her. She always thought it was because she was a star, not just because of her herself, and she always had to be reassured.”
    ― Madeleine L'Engle, The Joys of Love
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    Madeleine L'Engle
    “The part of us that has to be burned away is something like the deadwood on the bush; it has to go, to be burned in the terrible fire of reality, until there is nothing left but . . . what we are meant to be.”
    ― Madeleine L'Engle
    tags: inspirational
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    Madeleine L'Engle
    “Being alive hurts. I have found it best not to rush for the aspirin bottle. - A Severed Wasp”
    ― Madeline L'Engle
    tags: life-experience, life-lesson
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    C.S. Lewis
    “I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.”
    ― C. S. Lewis
    tags: hurt, lewis, misery, sad, truth
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    Natsuki Takaya
    “Because even the smallest of words can be the ones to hurt you, or save you.”
    ― Natsuki Takaya
    tags: fruits-basket, hurt, save, words, yuki
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    Clive Barker
    “Nothing else wounds so deeply and irreparably. Nothing else robs us of hope so much as being unloved by one we love”
    ― Clive Barker
    tags: abarat, absolute-midnight, clive-barker, hate, hurt, love, wounds
    374 likes

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    Jennifer Brown
    “Just like there's always time for pain, there's always time for healing.”
    ― Jennifer Brown, Hate List
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    Wallace Stegner
    “Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to
    wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.”
    ― Wallace Stegner, The Spectator Bird
    tags: heartbreak, hurt, life-lessons, scars, wisdom, wounds
    556 likes

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    Paulo Coelho
    “Forgive but do not forget, or you will be hurt again. Forgiving changes the perspectives. Forgetting loses the lesson.”
    ― Paulo Coelho
    tags: life-lessons
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    Jodi Picoult
    “You know, the mind is a remarkable thing. Just because you can't see the wound doesn't mean it isn't hurting. It scars all the time, but it heals.”
    ― Jodi Picoult, The Pact
    tags: inspirational, life-lessons
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    Jodi Picoult
    “Extraordinary things are always hiding in places people never think to look.”
    ― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
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    Jodi Picoult
    “I always hated when my scars started to fade, because as long as I could still see them, I knew why I was hurting.”
    ― Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care
    tags: pain
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    Jodi Picoult
    “Just because you keep something a secret doesn't mean it never happened, no matter how much you want that to be true.”
    ― Jodi Picoult, Vanishing Acts
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    Constantin Brâncuși
    “When we are no longer children we are already dead”
    ― Constantin Brancusi
    tags: children, fantastic, fantasy, imagination
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    Robin Constantine
    “Are you stalking me or something?' 'Ha...Well, I'd rather think of it as strategically putting myself in your path so we can be friends....But if you want to call it stalking, okay.”
    ― Robin Constantine
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    Sharde Richardson
    “Hurt shouldn’t pile up like this inside of someone. No one should suffocate beneath pain on top of pain. You should have time to breathe, time to scream it out until it doesn’t exist anymore.”
    ― Sharde Richardson, Watched
    tags: hurt, hurting
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    Dan Pearce
    “Children are gifts. They are not ours for the breaking. They are ours for the making.”
    ― Dan Pearce, Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One
    tags: anger, arguing, break, child, children, dads, fathers, happiness, hurt, kindness, labeling, love, parenting, parents, praise, words, yelling
    87 likes

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    Melina Marchetta
    “Our spirit is mightier than the filth of our memories.”
    ― Melina Marchetta, Quintana of Charyn
    tags: hurt, memories, past, spirit, strength
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    Laurell K. Hamilton
    “There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.”
    ― Laurell K. Hamilton, Mistral's Kiss
    tags: depression, pain, trauma
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    Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
    “It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.”
    ― Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
    tags: healing, pain, remembrance, scars, time
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  • #29
    John Lennon
    “One thing you can't hide - is when you're crippled inside.”
    ― John Lennon
    tags: beatles, emotions, hypocrisy, pain, suffering
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  • #30
    George R.R. Martin
    “Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
    tags: hurt, pain, perfect, truthful
    5133 likes



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