“Therapy takes us backward into a forgotten past, but this was not a safe and secure time, else we would not have emerged from it scarred by battle wounds and armoured in self-defense.”

“No one emerges from a troubled childhood without the battle scars to prove it. It is amazing that we fare as well as we do.”

“There's a pain we can never heal,it's okay to have the wound,the scars would remind us how we got it,”

“Time heals the wounds of the past, Apology, forgiveness, and acceptancedoes lighten the scars.”

“Time doesn't heal the wounds; it masks them. It takes them and makes them something else. Some scars always remain. Some wounds always remain open and exposed.”

“I loved him so, even his past was precious to me. I found myself kissing each mark, thinking, I would have had it never happen, I would wish it away, taking him further and further back to a time when he had known no disappointments, no battles, no wounds, as I erased each one. To make him again like Caesarion. Yet if we take the past away from those we love - even to protect them - do we not steal their very selves?”