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Quotes About Clotting

He: What's the matter with you? Me: Nothing. Nothing was slowly clotting my arteries. Nothing slowly numbing my soul. Caught by nothing, saying nothing, nothingness becomes me. When I am nothing they will say surprised in the way that they are forever surprised, "but there was nothing the matter with her.
~ Jeanette Winterson
A borderline suffers a kind of emotional hemophilia; [s]he lacks the clotting mechanism needed to moderate [his or her] spurts of feeling. Stimulate a passion, and the borderline emotionally bleeds to death.
~ Jerold Kreisman, Hal Straus
Love's language starts, stops, starts; the right words flowing or clotting in the heart.
~ Carol Ann Duffy
Twice a week I would receive injections or IV's of Factor VIII which clotted the blood and then broke it down.
~ Ryan White
A borderline suffers a kind of "emotional hemophilia"; she lacks the clotting mechanism needed to moderate her spurts of feeling. Prick the delicate "skin" of a borderline and she will emotionally bleed to death. Sustained periods of contentment are foreign to the borderline.
~ Jerold J. Kreisman