"And while some healing does happen, it isn't a healing of redemption or epiphany. It's more like the slow absorption of a bruise."

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Source : Joan Wickersham (2008). “The Suicide Index: Putting My Father's Death in Order”, p.317, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Joan Wickersham

#Healing Quotes #Doe Quotes #Bruises Quotes

“No man is an island. No man stands alone.”
“Roger Maris was as good a man and as good a ballplayer as there ever was.”
“There are so many emotions that are just better when you react to people reacting to it. Like laughter.”
“C.M. Punk...I think you're a nerd”
“It's a matter of whether you see the self as fundamentally in relationship to other selves or not - whether you see the boundary between self and the world as relatively permeable, which makes you "interdependent" (collectivist) in outlook, or relatively impermeable, which makes you "independent" (individualistic).”

Source : "Interview with Gish Jen: Tiger Writer". Interview with Jennifer Haupt, www.psychologytoday.com. December 1, 2013.
“Why should we live halfway up the hill and swathed in the mists, when we might have an unclouded sky and a radiant sun over our heads if we would climb higher and walk in the light of His face?”
“Peacekeeping is not a job for soldiers, but only soldiers can do it.”
“There is an entire generation of young people who know nothing about how viciously the FBI attacked The Black Panther Party, and why.”

Source : " Bobby Seale Still Fundraising For Scripted Black Panthers Life Story Feature Film" by Tambay A. Obenson, www.indiewire.com. March 29, 2013.

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