“the most damaging wounds are selfinflicted!”
“The damage can fester under layers of time and change, and an ignorant, thoughtless remark can easily reopen the wound.”
“I thought at the time that I couldn't be horrified anymore, or wounded. I suppose that's a common conceit, that you've already been so damaged that damage itself, in its totality, makes you safe.”
“You take the words in the sense which is most damaging to the argument.”
“…most of the damage we cause to the planet is the result of our own ignorance.”
“The vaunted experience of age was perhaps only a matter of wounds and scarring -- that young minds to old minds might be as young bodies to old bodies: stronger, more vital, less twisted by damage.”