China Mieville Quotes

I healed. Not completely. A scar is never the same as good flesh, but it stops the bleeding.

Things that break - be they bones, hearts, or promises - can be put back together but will never really be whole.

Healing is as incremental and mysterious as the damage ... what took time, takes time.

Everyone gets hurt, but I've probably had the most injuries.

History was an incredibly damaging experience, and now it's over . . . in a sense.

Sometimes broken people stay broken.

Funny how time heals. Like that bullet in my ribs. It's there, I know it's there, but I can barely feel it at all anymore.

For great as the powers of destruction may be, greater still, are the powers of healing.

It's important to see how we can advance in healing wounds.

When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.

I'm a fast healer. I was on the air a week after I got shot.

There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with.

I've got cut half in two, once, and blowed up a time or two, but nothing permanent.

The history of a soldier's wound beguiles the pain of it.

Before the old wound can be healed, there is fresh blood flowing.

Any time you have an injury, it's going to be tough.

Injuries make you stronger.

I had always been a quick healer.

My parents and my sister died... very close together, and after that, I lost quite a bit of my sense of humor. Most of it I think has kind of come back, but I know there was a time when I didn't think things were funny anymore. I kind of think they're funny again.

I've done what I could as far as getting physically healthy after my knee injury, and I've done what I could to get mentally healthy after losing my husband.

There's no way I can go back and uninjure myself.

There's a difference between being injured and being hurt.

Sometimes broken things heal crooked. The pieces didn’t fit anymore.

One of my biggest lessons in life is, we heal at the speed of our forgiveness.