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Quotes About Wound

In the last photograph of her, the bullet wound looked like a cheerful summer rose arranged just above her left ear. A few petals had fallen on her kaffan, the white shroud she was wrapped in before she was laid to rest.
~ Arundhati Roy
Having already done more harm than the bullet had
~ Atul Gawande
He wished that he, too, had a wound, a red badge of courage.
~ Stephen Crane
Innocence is a bleeding wound without a bandage, a wound that opens with every casual knock from casual passers-by. Experience is an armour.
~ Hilary Mantel, Fludd
Dibujé el mundo que él había creado para mí, lleno de maravillas y posibilidades. Le hice saber que una herida había sido curada de un modo que él no podría ni imaginar, y solo por eso siempre habría una parte de mí que le estaría agradecida.
~ Jojo Moyes
Parecía resignado a la soledad, pero su herida seguía abierta, si bien ahora era una hemorragia interna.
~ Enrique Serna
Birchfall lapped at his wound "You're not very sympathetic for a medicine cat" "I'm here to HEAL you. If you want sympathy, go to the nursery" Jaypaw mewed
~ Erin Hunter
We could hear her voice, speaking of a perplexing era to come, sounding from the distance. Her voice quivered on the night air, confusing her precise location. She could have been rattling the doors to our ears from a hundred different places in the living wound of our area.
~ Ben Okri
He couldn't tell that this was one of those occasions a man never forgets: a small cicatrice had been made on the memory, a wound that would ache whenever certain things combined - the taste of gin at mid-day, the smell of flowers under a balcony, the clang of corrugated iron, an ugly bird flopping from perch to perch.
~ Graham Greene
Once for five minutes seven years ago they had been lovers—if you could give that name to a relationship in which she had never used his baptismal name: to her it was just an incident, a scratch which heals completely in the healthy flesh: she was even proud of having been the priest's woman. He alone carried a wound, as though a whole world had died.
~ Graham Greene
Her butt was all bloody.
~ Gregg Olsen
Silences can wound as surely as the twisting lash, the poet Sadiq Khan once wrote. But sometimes, being silent is the only way to tell the truth.
~ Gregory David Roberts
The wound healed and the pain receded from me just as memories do, like landmarks on a distant, foggy shore.
~ Gregory David Roberts
The wound was beginning to knit well enough, but it was an angry red, with some flares of yellowish-white.
~ Gregory David Roberts
Maybe the ultimate wound is the one that makes you miss the war you got it in.
~ Sebastian Junger
Of all weapons in the world, I now know love to be the most dangerous. For I have suffered a mortal wound. When did I fall so deeply under your spell, Ms. Bennet? I cannot fix the hour or the spot or the look or the words which lay the foundation. I was in the middle before I knew I began." Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
~ Seth Grahame-Smith
Time pulses from the afternoon like blood from a serious wound.
~ Hilma Wolitzer
Despair, he remembered now from an earlier occasion, could hurt as keenly as an open knife wound.
~ Mary Balogh
Human saliva contains histatins, which speed wound closure independent of their antibacterial action.
~ Mary Roach
Ear cartilage is similarly underserved by the vascular system, so if you plan on picking a fight with Mike Tyson, do practice good wound toilet.)
~ Mary Roach
Zugibe's theory holds that the nail went in through jesus' palm at an angle and came out the back side at the wrist.
~ Mary Roach
This was then the reward of my benevolence! I had saved a human being from destruction, and as a recompense I now writhed under the miserable pain of a wound which shattered the flesh and bone. The feelings of kindness and gentleness which I had entertained but a few moments before gave place to hellish rage and gnashing of teeth. Inflamed by pain, I vowed eternal hatred and vengeance to all mankind. But the agony of my wound overcame me; my pulses paused, and I fainted.
~ Mary Shelley
had saved a human being from destruction, and, as a recompence, I now writhed under the miserable pain of a wound, which scattered the flesh and bone. The feelings of kindness and gentleness, which I had entertained but
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
No sooner was the wound given than the remedy was provided and revealed.
~ Matthew Henry