Remedies

                           

• “And oh she had been broken. She hid it well, but Ross knew from personal experience that once you had put the pieces together, even though you might look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall”  ― Jodi Picoult, Second Glance

• “It's harder to heal than it is to kill.” ― Tamora Pierce

• “Imperfection is simply not a good enough excuse to have someone keep hurting you just because they feel like it.” ― Pandora Poikilos, Excuse Me, My Brains Have Stepped Out

• “You know how I get angry sometimes? That's because it's the only way I can still feel. And I need to test myself, to make sure I'm really here.” ― Jodi Picoult, Sing You Home

• “Remember that grief is a necessary pain. It’s your only way to heal. To starve it will destroy you.”~The Grimoire” ― S. M. Boyce, Lichgates

• “I don’t want to be in pain anymore. I want to be done, to be left unburdened and naked, to tear the hurt off my body like layers of clothes. At the end of the trail I stop and bend forward, hands on my knees, to catch my breath. I’m not healed, but for this moment, I’m better.” ― Kerry Cohen, Loose Girl: A Memoir of Promiscuity

• “Healing wasn’t always the best thing. Sometimes a hole was better left open. Sometimes it healed too thick and too well and left separate pieces fused and incompetent. And it was harder to reopen after that.” ― Ann Brashares, The Last Summer