"It's painful, but it's part of the recognition that makes real healing possible, if healing is possible (the jury is out on that, that's the usual phrase - should I say the jury is deadlocked?). Staying with the pain, attending to it, being present to and with it - that's the task, because that's the only (as far as I can tell) hope of finding a way forward."

-- Laura Mullen

#Pain Quotes #Real Quotes #Healing Quotes

“Accessories are everything. To me, they're more important than the clothes.”
“She thought of how precious it was to be able to know another person over many years. There was incomparable richness in it.”
“It starts at midnight.”
“Hell, right now my only weapons were Obnoxious and Snark, and I intended to use them whenever possible.”

Source : Diana Rowland (2012). “Touch of the Demon: Demon Novels, Book Five”, p.16, Penguin
“The people who are making money are the ones who are writing and singing their own songs.”
“GO FOR HIS EYES! OR BITE HIM ON THE NOSE! DRAGON NOSES ARE VERY SENSITIVE!" Oh, very helpful, Camicazi, very helpful...thought Hiccup. What if he doesn't obligingly hold me up to his nose? What if the only part I get close to is the TEETH?”
“But now it seems possible that the truth about getting older is that there are fewer and fewer things to make fun of until finally there is nothing you are sure you will never be.”

Source : Jenny Offill (2014). “Dept. of Speculation”, p.77, Granta Books
“A person can only be born in one place. However, he may die several times elsewhere: in the exiles and prisons, and in a homeland transformed by the occupation and oppression into a nightmare.”

Source : "The Palestinian poet who inspired JK Rowling's stance on Israel" by Claire Armitstead, www.theguardian.com. October 27, 2015.

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