Time didn't heal, but it anesthetized. The human mind could only feel so much.

Feel, he told himself, feel, feel, feel. Even if what you feel is pain, only let yourself feel.

The pain of an injury is over in seconds. Everything that comes after is the pain of getting well." He gave her a heartfelt look, full of apology. "I'd forgotten that you see. Coming back to life ... It hurts.

And so I wait. I wait for time to heal the pain and raise me to me feet once again - so that I can start a new path, my own path, the one that will make me whole again.

I suppose that since most of our hurts come through relationships so will our healing, and I know that grace rarely makes sense for those looking in from the outside.

Closure is an American lie used to justify revenge. Healing is getting used to the pain, learning to be damaged.