"Only a girl like this
can know what's happened to you.
If she were here she would
reach out her arms towards
you now, and touch you
with her absent hands
and you would feel nothing, but you would be
touched all the same.”
can know what's happened to you.
If she were here she would
reach out her arms towards
you now, and touch you
with her absent hands
and you would feel nothing, but you would be
touched all the same.”
-- Margaret Atwood, "Girl Without Hands"
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| Self portrait 6-11-13 |
“I know it’s hard for you to allow yourself to feel this.
You've gone so
long training yourself to block the feelings and emotions out
any time
someone touches you.”
-- Colleen Hoover, Hopeless
"When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us,
we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures,
have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds
with a warm and tender hand."
-- Henri Nouwen
