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“Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word.” George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
“Moral wounds have this peculiarity,—they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the heart.” Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
“Hearts live by being wounded.” Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance
“If I have left a wound inside you, it is not just your wound but mine as well.” Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
“He jests at scars that never felt a wound.” William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
“treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.” Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
“What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?” Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
“Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they’re better.” Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
“Out of my thoughts! You are part of my existence, part of myself. You have been in every line I have ever read since I first came here, the rough common boy whose poor heart you wounded even then.” Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
“There are accounts that, if we open our hearts to them, will cut us too deeply.” Neil Gaiman, American Gods
“It is worse than whipping to be laughed at.” John Steinbeck, Tortilla Flat
“One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but there is no such thing in the life of an individual. There are open wounds, shrunk sometimes to the size of a pin-prick but wounds still. The marks of suffering are...” F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

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