“know now what matters, and it is not what I have lost. It is my memories. Wounds heal. Love lasts.”

“We have been called to heal wounds, to unite what has fallen apart, and to bring home those who have lost their way.”

Francis of Assisi (1182–1226) Catholic saint and founder of the Franciscan Order

“And no matter what anybody says about grief and about time healing all wounds, the truth is, there are certain sorrows that never fade away until the heart stops beating and the last breath is taken.”

Tiffanie DeBartolo (1970) American writer

“How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
Iago”

William Shakespeare Othello

“You know, it’s amazing to me the wounds we carry for eternity. But what has fascinated me most these last few years is how the right person can heal them. I remember a wise man once said to me that everyone deserves to be loved. Even you. (Zarek)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

“My thighs have been involved in many accidents,
And now I can't get insured,
And I don't need to be lured by you.
My cunt is built like a wound that won't heal,
And now you don't have to ask
Because you know how I feel.”

Ani DiFranco (1970) musician and activist

“Love will heal
What language fails to know”

Eavan Boland (1944) Irish poet

“Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime.”

Mineko Iwasaki (1949) Japanese Geisha

“I am: yet what I am none cares or knows,
My friends forsake me like a memory lost:
I am the self-consumer of my woes,
They rise and vanish in oblivious host,
Like shades in love and death's oblivion lost:
And yet I am, and live with shadows tost”

John Clare (1793–1864) English poet

“I know you: You’ll come find me again, you’ll come rescue me no matter what happens. You’ll come for me, and I’ll discover you all over again. I love you. I love you without the memories. I love you right now.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author