Julie Kagawa Quotes

Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul.

I don't know of any other creature on earth other than man that will sit in a corner and cry because of some painful experience in the past.

The thing about wounded people is wounded people are scared that those wounds are going to end up killing them. They pretend like they're not there, or they ignore them.

I much condole with you on your late loss... pains and diseases of the mind are only cured by Forgetfulness;--Reason but skins the wound, which is perpetually liable to fester again.

Even if she be not harmed, her heart may fail her in so much and so many horrors; and hereafter she may suffer--both in waking, from her nerves, and in sleep, from her dreams.

According to Madam Pomfrey, thoughts could leave deeper scars than almost anything else.

Every fear, every night terror, every hour I cried for Liev, every fight with Sebastian is registered as a neat white scar.

Injuries come only from the heart.

Words can bruise and break hearts, and minds as well. There are no black and blue marks, no broken bones to put in plaster casts, and therefore no prison bars for the offender.

Surviving is much more painful than death.

The wounds that cannot be seen are more painful than those that can be treated by a doctor.

There are a thousand ways to hurt someone you love that have nothing to do with physical violence.

He wanted this someone to see how much he hurt.

...This fear was unbearable. It unwrapped who she was, as neatly as he'd unwound her bandage, leaving too much pain and ugliness exposed. Nerve endings; he'd said they were the problem [causing phantom pain in the amputated limb]." Things that cut off, that ended abruptly or died--like parents and marriages--kept hurting forever.

Incurable wounds are those inflicted by tongue and eye, by mockery and disdain.

There are a hundred things she has tried to chase away the things she won't remember and that she can't even let herself think about because that's when the birds scream and the worms crawl and somewhere in her mind it's always raining a slow endless drizzle.

The mind grows sicker than the body in contemplation of it's suffering.

I can heal the scars on your body, but I can’t heal the scars of the soul. Not yours, not mine. You have to learn to live with them. You have to choose to live beyond them

...Her entire life has been devoted to healing the deepest, most invasive unseeable scar that one can ever have.

I'd been broken beyond repair.

It is hopelessness even more than pain that crushes the soul.

The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.

What hurts people a lot is taking humiliation.

Pain that is not transformed is transmitted.

But a wound unfelt is a wound unhealed.