Rainbow Rowell Quotes

I tell myself time heals. It really does.

The best way to heal a broken heart, it turns out, is to find a way to move past the hurt.

The good times and the bad times both will pass. It will pass. It will get easier. But the fact that it will get easier does not mean that it doesn’t hurt now. And when people try to minimize your pain they are doing you a disservice. And when you try to minimize your own pain you’re doing yourself a disservice. Don’t do that. The truth is that it hurts because it’s real. It hurts because it mattered. And that’s an important thing to acknowledge to yourself. But that doesn’t mean that it won’t end, that it won’t get better. Because it will.

It's a long life, sweetheart, and time heals all wounds.

One day at a time. You rise, you eat, you bathe, and you talk to the few people you can tolerate while feeling so wretched. Over time, it hurts a little less. Then a little less. And so on...Until one morning, you will awake and realize the pain is only a memory. It will always be with you, but it will eventually lack the power to cripple you.

There's no hurt so great that love can't heal it.

The bad part is life continues. The good part is that the pain goes away.

Do not wait for the healing to arrive. It will never come. The holes will never leave or be filled with anything at all. But holes are interesting things.

Life. Unfair and painful at times. But always moving forward, always shifting,changing, with times relentless passage smoothing down jagged parts until it no longer hurts quite so much to breathe.

Nothing heals like love and time

That's just pain she said. It goes eventually. And when it's gone, there's no lasting memory. Not the worst of it anyway. It fades. Our minds aren't made to hold on to the particulars of pain the way we do bliss. It's a gift God gives us, a sign of His care for us.

Time heals all wounds.

I've been on the floor and I've been heartbroken. I didn't know how I was going to stand up. But I just gave it time.

I want to take all the pain that I feel and celebrate and turn it around.

They say time heals all wounds, but sometimes you wonder.

Forgiveness is a scalpel that removes emotional scars.

My forgiving you doesn't make my heart hurt less. It takes awhile to heal.

It doesn't matter how greatly you've been hurt or how much you're hurting, it's what you do with the pain that counts. You could cry for years or you could choose to learn and grow from it.

We're not broken, just bent, and we can learn to love again.

I don't regret anything. Everything happens for a reason-it's part of the healing process. Life is a healing process.

Time washes clean, love's wounds unseen.

When the heart is cut or cracked or broken Do not clutch it Let the wound lie open Let the wind from the good old sea blow in to bathe the wound with salt and let it sting. Let a stray dog lick it Let a bird fly in the hole and sing a simple song like a tiny bell and let it ring.

Time heals all wounds. But not this one. Not yet.

The worst of it is over now, and I can't say that I am glad. Lose that sense of loss—you have gone and lost something else. But the body moves toward health. The mind, too, in steps. One step at a time. Ask a mother who has just lost a child, How many children do you have? "Four," she will say, "—three," and years later, "Three," she will say, "—four.