#bruise

Don't lick your wounds unless you care to taste the sting a second time. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

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#grief #heartache #hurt #injury #lick-your-wounds

She was so delicate that, while we sat beneath the linden branches, a leaf would fall and drift down and touch her skin, and it would leave a bruise. So as we sat in the afternoon hour, beneath that fragrant linden bower, I had to chase all of the leafs that fell away. ↗

— Roman Payne

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#bruise #chivalry #courtesy #courting #delicate