“it’s important to make sure that we’re talking with each other in a way that heals, not in a way that wounds.”

“Dear John, tell me everything. Write it all down, that way, we’ll be with each other all the time, even if we’re not with each other at all.”

“Believing the lie that time will heal all wounds is just a nice way of saying that time deadens us.”

“Suddenly a sorrow the color of dawn welled up in him. They might as well lick each other's wounds. But they would lick forever, and the wounds would never heal, and in the end their tongues would be worn away.”

“Maybe time didn't heal wounds exactly, but it gave you a kind of armor, or a new perspective. A way to remember with a smile instead of a sob.”

“Every single one of us needs to be there for each other, not just in the big profound ways but sometimes just the really small and important ways.”

“The wound that’s made by fire will heal,
But the wound that’s made by tongue will never heal.”

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

“If you stick a knife in my back nine inches and pull it out six inches, there's no progress. If you pull it all the way out that's not progress. Progress is healing the wound that the blow made. And they haven't even pulled the knife out much less heal the wound. They won't even admit the knife is there.”

“A man should always be drunk, Minnie, when he talks politics – it's the only way in which to make them important.”