Jodi Picoult Quotes

He only wishes there were something that would heal the scars in his mind, which he can still feel. He sees his mind now as an archipelago of islands that he labors to build bridges between - and while he's had great success engineering the most spectacular of bridges, he suspects there are some islands that he'll never reach.

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

Suppressing your hurts is like not tending to a bullet wound. Eventually you will bleed out. Dont numb pain, express it.

She plays music to heal herself, but nothing can heal her brokenness.

What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?

What deep wounds ever closed without a scar? The hearts bleed longest, and heals but to wear That which disfigures it.

At some point people either had to throw off the wounds of their childhood or go through life permanently crippled

I always hated when my scars started to fade, because as long as I could still see them, I knew why I was hurting.

Such wounds to the heart will probably never heal. But we cannot simply sit and stare at our wounds forever.

Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, Raze out the written troubles of the brain

I've been hurt so many times I don't have the balls for it anymore.

My heart was broken so badly last time that it still hurts. Isn't that crazy? To still have a broken heart almost two years after a love story ends?

If you have high self-esteem, you might still know times of emotional suffering, but less often and with faster recovery-your resilience is greater.

Love's wounds can be healed only by the one who inflicts them.

I much condole with you on your late loss... pains and diseases of the mind are only cured by Forgetfulness;--Reason but skins the wound, which is perpetually liable to fester again.

If there is anything unhealthy in your reactions, just bear in mind that sickness is the means by which an organism frees itself from what is alien; so one must simply help it to be sick, to have its whole sickness and to break out with it, since that is the way it gets better.

When inward tenderness finds the secret hurt, pain itself will crack the rock and Ah! Let the soul emerge.

If you do not transform your pain, you will always transmit it.

You can't patch a wounded soul with a Band-Aid.

The damage can fester under layers of time and change, and an ignorant, thoughtless remark can easily reopen the wound.

When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.

One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but there is no such thing in the life of an individual.

According to Madam Pomfrey, thoughts could leave deeper scars than almost anything else.

Grief doesn't fade. Grief scabs over like my scars and pulls into new, painful configurations as it knits. It hurts in new ways. We are never free from grief.

The word 'innocence' means a mind that is incapable of being hurt.