“Bitterness and resentment are a bottomless well. They can only be healed by the phenomenon of someone else's sorrow rising to your level of pain... it never happens - save yourself endless hurt.”
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“Things shouldn’t hinge on so very little. Sneeze and you’re highway carnage. Remove one tiny stone and bang, you’re an avalanche statistic. But I guess if you can die without ever understanding how it happened then you can also live without a complete understanding of how.”
― A Complicated Kindness
― A Complicated Kindness
“Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.
From an Irish headstone”
― The Carolinian
From an Irish headstone”
― The Carolinian
“She was so wicked. Such a classic case of resentment and ambivalence bumping and brushing up against all that maternal instinct. The love and hate in her was as vast as space- all meteors, no atmosphere.”
― White Bird in a Blizzard
― White Bird in a Blizzard
“Forgiveness is a clean lotion that heals the wounds of misunderstandings! To iron out the differences; get the painful sores dressed up; Forgive and Forget!”
― The Great Hand Book of Quotes
― The Great Hand Book of Quotes
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