Quotes About Resurfacing

What was once underground is now coming to the surface.

Only a Chinaman or a retarded child can imagine being met, in that Next-Installment World, to the accompaniment of all sorts of tail-wagging and groveling of welcome, by the mosquito executed eighty years ago upon one's bare leg, which has been amputated since then and now, in the wake of the gesticulating mosquito, comes back, stomp, stomp, stomp, here I am, stick me on.

The past is dead and buried. But I know now that buried things have a way of rising to the surface when one least expects them to.

the things we don't deal with always come back. There's no escape

Emotional pain is such a strange feeling. You can forget you're in it—or try to, anyway—and then it sneaks up and finds its way to the surface.

How easily something you thought was safely buried in your past could suddenly come back and cut you to the quick.

The past has a way of rising up and stepping into view when we least expect it.

All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.

I felt memories rising to the surface like a corpse coming up from dark water.

Trying to mentally bury strong loving feelings for someone who is no longer in your life and that you still truly love is like trying to hold a beach ball under water....just keeps surfacing.