“Not all scars show. Not all wounds heal. Sometimes you can't see, the pain someone feels.”

“One of the blessings human beings take for granted is the ability to remember pain without re-feeling it. The pain of the physical wounds is long gone …and the other kind of hurt, the damage done to our spirits, has been healed. We are careful with those scarred places in each other. ”

“You can't go through life striking out at people who hurt or scare you. All that does is show them that you're weak. It tells them that they've wounded you, and a strong woman never shows her wounds unless it serves a purpose.”

“When you're too close to people, when you spend too much time with them and love them too dearly, sometimes you can't see them”

“Why is it that you can bear pain, but someone's kindness makes you cry?”

“I think of pain differently now. There is pain that hurts, pain that is so bad you can no longer feel it. Your body just says 'hold on'.”

“Because with the right person, sometimes kissing feels like healing.”