I suppose that's a common conceit, that you've already been so damaged that damage itself in its totality makes you safe.
Lionel ShriverTags: damage
There is an internal landscape, a geography of the soul: we search for its outlines all over our lives. Those who are lucky enough to find it ease like water over stone, onto its fluid contours, and are home.
Some find it in a place of their birth; others may leave a seaside town, parched, and find themselves refreshed in the desert. there are those born in rolling countryside who are really only at ease in the intense and busy loneliness of the city.
For some, the search is for the imprint of another; a child or a mother, a grandfather or a brother, a lover, a husband, a wife, or a foe.
We may go through our lives happy or unhappy, successful or unfulfilled, loved, or unloved, without ever standing cold with the shock or recognition, without ever feeling the agony as the twisted iron in our soul unlocks itself and we slip at last into place.
Tags: damage
Truth, meanwhile, was a weapon
that even a damaged fist could still grasp and wield. It was a remarkably versatile commodity; it could be traded, or help serve an end, or produce a
profit.
Tags: truth weapon profit end help trade fist remarkable commodity serve damage grasp wield produce versatile
She walked away without bothering to look further. She knew he’d be fine. Her specialty was subduing without causing any real damage. He’d lie there for a few minutes. He’d be sore, maybe bruised tomorrow. He’d brush the cobwebs off his imagination to invent a story for his buddies about how three seven-foot, three-hundred-pound male karate black belts attacked him in the park.
But she would bet her life on the fact that he would never sneak up on another fragile-looking woman without remembering this night. And that was the point. That was what Gaia lived for.
Tags: lies lessons fragile damage subdue
...the heart of a child can take forty-nine blows before it’s damaged for ever and what’s done can never be undone.
Paul HoffmanTags: life pain love children god heart child things true kill kids damaged paul last four never forever undone left hand done ever damage hoffman forty-nine
The walk back to the subway and the subsequent ride to my apartment in Queens is long, providing me with too much time to ask myself exactly what the fuck I'm getting myself into. Nell is bad news. She’s got major damage, a baggage train a mile long. And so do I.
Jasinda WilderTags: falling damage colton baggage falling-into-you jasinda-wilder
The trouble with rules, though, is that you'll always be tempted to break one- for the right reasons, due to unavoidable circumstances, because it feels as if there's no other choice. And once you break one, the rest seem like so much broken glass. The damage is already done.
Stacey KadeTags: rules broken-glass damage no-choice broken-rules
Memory loss is one way of coping with damage.
Jeanette WintersonTags: memory damage memory-loss
Fikiria kwanza maana ya unachosema. Halafu sema.
Enock MaregesiTags: wisdom harm think foolishness mouth head damage
Neno moja kutoka mdomoni mwako linaweza kukuletea madhara makubwa. Fikiria kwanza maana ya kitu unachofikiria (ambacho tayari umekisema kichwani mwako) kabla ya kukisema tena mdomoni mwako. Wenye hekima huzungumza kwa sababu wana kitu cha kuzungumza. Wapumbavu hubwabwaja.
Enock MaregesiTags: wisdom harm think foolishness mouth head damage
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