#pa

'Christ, Dresden! You almost got me killed!' 'Don't be a baby. You're fine.' Thomas frowned at me. 'You at least could have told me!' 'I did tell you,' I said. 'I told you at Mac's that I'd give you a ride home, but that I had to run an errand first.' Thomas scowled. 'An errand is getting a tank of gas or picking up a carton of milk or something. It is not getting chased by flying purple pyromaniac gorillas hurling incendiary poo.' " - Harry Dresden & Thomas Raith, Blood Rites, Jim Butcher ↗

— Jim Butcher

#harry-dresden #magic #paranormal #wizards #christ

There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#pain #trauma #hurt

The past can't hurt you anymore, not unless you let it. ↗

— Alan Moore

#hurting #past #v-for-vendetta #hurt

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken - and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived. ↗

— Margaret Mitchell

#best #broken #fragments #glue #good

Thinking. A process by which I use my brain to make a rational decision. ↗

— Becca Fitzpatrick

#brain

Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft! ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#preparedness #strategy #honor

When someone stabs you it's not your fault that you feel pain. ↗

— Louise Penny

#pain #grace

It is very strange that the years teach us patience - that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting. ↗