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“He knows about damage the way a woman does. He knows, the way a woman knows, how to carry on as if nothing’s wrong.”

Book:A Wild Swan: And Other Tales

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A Wild Swan: And Other Tales

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Michael Cunningham

Michael Cunningham is an American writer renowned for his novel 'The Hours', which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1998. His works often explore themes of identity, memory, and gender. more

“It dropped ice to the bottom of his stomach. He thought of the ruined bodies he'd seen, including the ones he himself had ruined. He realized that he had somehow expected that he'd never have to think again about the way people damage other people. The night of the invasion. Kestrel's back. His own. Roshar's scarred face. His own.”

War Violence Damage Brutality Scars Bad Memories Arin Nighmare

Book:The Winner's Kiss

Source: The Winner's Kiss

“The young are often savvy in the cultural world but not so much the intellectual; the old the intellectual but not so much the cultural. But I tell you those who do the most damage during an era are very much aware of both.”

Source: Killosophy

“Soul has been demoted to a new-age spiritual fantasy or a missionary's booty, and nature has been treated , at best, as a postcard or a vacation backdrop or, more commonly, as a hardware store or refuse heap. Too many of us lack intimacy with the natural world and with our souls, and consequently we are doing untold damage to both.”

Soul Nature Damage Spiritual Maturity

Book:Nature and the Human Soul: Cultivating Wholeness and Community in a Fragmented World

Source: Nature and the Human Soul: Cultivating Wholeness and Community in a Fragmented World

“The damage love does when love goes astray. And did it ever, given half a chance, fail to wander?”

Love Wander Damage Astray

Book:The Coming Storm

Source: The Coming Storm

“We look at your eyes. The eyes carry the wounds. The eyes know damage. Damaged people recognize other damaged people, and we let you in. We are kindred. - Broken Places”

Poetry Abuse Trauma Damage

Author:Rachel Thompson

“In a climate changed world, it is a smart person who thins their trees so that the abnormally high winds can pass through them without damage.”

World Changed Smart Climate Damage Trees Person High Without Through Pass Winds Abnormally Thins

Author:Steven Magee

“It was no thought or word that called culture into being, but a tool or a weapon. After the stone axe we needed song and story to remember innocence, to record effect- and so to describe the limits, to say what can be done without damage.”

Damage

Author:Wendell Berry

“It's our damage that makes us interesting.”

Damage Chris Weitz The New Order The Young World Kath

Book:The New Order

Source: The New Order

“I made a sorry face in response to such strong insistence, but I couldn’t believe him. Fantasies were exactly that―fantasies. Whimsy. Wishes. Mere castles in the sky without foundation or substance. Dreams didn’t come true. To believe so would be to believe falsely, to surrender to madness, to give in to an unreliable hope that would crush me once again as it always, always did!”

Hope Fantasy Dreams Madness Richelle Goodrich Richelle Wishes Hopelessness Whimsy

Book:Dandelions: The Disappearance of Annabelle Fancher

Source: Dandelions: The Disappearance of Annabelle Fancher

“TV is a pornographic cacophony of violence, death obsession, screams, gunfire and drama. You think it's fine because you are damaged.”

Death Violence Television Drama Damage Pornography Obsessive Screaming Gunfire

Book:Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Source: Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

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