{"quotes":[{"text":"...The way we ended things was not uncommon for kids like us. She said we'd lost enough in our short lives to want to cauterize our wounds before they happened. We burned our connection closed before we felt the holes.","author":"Joshilyn Jackson","tags":["burned-bridges","loss","wounds"],"id":2149,"author_id":"Joshilyn+Jackson"},{"text":"Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.","author":"Euripides","tags":["hate","incurable","love","retaliation","revenge","wounds"],"id":3915,"author_id":"Euripides"},{"text":"You don't need another Human Being to make your life complete, but let's be honest. Having your wounds kissed by someone who doesn't see them as disasters In your soul, but cracks to put their love into, Is the most calming thing In this World.","author":"Emery Allen","tags":["beauty-and-sadness","disaster","healing","love","soul","wounds"],"id":6869,"author_id":"Emery+Allen"},{"text":"[Babbington] 'What did [the Doctor, Stephen] do to you, sir?'[Captain Aubrey] 'Well, I am ashamed to say he took a pistol-ball out of the small of my back. It must have been when I turned to hail for more hands- thank God I did not. At the time I thought it was one of those vile horses that were capering about abaft the wheel.'Oh, sir, surely a horse would never have fired off a pistol?","author":"Patrick O'Brian","tags":["battle","horses","wounds"],"id":22715,"author_id":"Patrick+O%27Brian"},{"text":"Wounds are inspirations to make us stronger than the sun which blazes the day to be longer.","author":"Munia Khan","tags":["become","blaze","blazing","burn","burning","day","flame","hurt","inspiration","inspirations","longer","stronger","sun","wise-words","wound","wounds"],"id":25558,"author_id":"Munia+Khan"},{"text":"God has mercifully ordered that the human brain works slowly; first the blow, hours afterwards the bruise.","author":"Walter de la Mare","tags":["brain","mind","shock","trauma","wounds"],"id":27324,"author_id":"Walter+de+la+Mare"},{"text":"A thing about poetry is, It takes cuts and pain to bleed words. The deeper the wound is, the more you bleed. And eventually, you will start falling in love with it. But the saddest part is, sometimes there comes a moment when you start to feel that all those wounds on your soul are not enough. And you start cutting yourself deeper, forgetting when to stop.","author":"Akshay Vasu","tags":["bleed","cuts","deep","feel","love","moment","pain","poetry","sad","stop","time","words","wounds"],"id":29217,"author_id":"Akshay+Vasu"},{"text":"The deepest wounds aren't the ones we get from other people hurting us. They are the wounds we give ourselves when we hurt other people.","author":"Isobelle Carmody","tags":["hurt","life","philosophical","wounds"],"id":35031,"author_id":"Isobelle+Carmody"},{"text":"Until you have stood in another woman’s stilettos, you will never begin to know the year of pain she felt breaking them in.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["adversity","being-ignored","cruelty","illness","lack-of-compassion","misunderstood","no-empathy","no-mercy","pain","scars","sorrow","trials","wounds"],"id":35210,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"Oblivion cures the old wounds.","author":"Dejan Stojanovic","tags":["cure","cures","dejan-stojanovic","literature","literature","oblivion","poetry","poetry","to-live-by","thoughts","wisdom","wound","wounds"],"id":39875,"author_id":"Dejan+Stojanovic"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":147,"pages":15,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}