A healer is someone who seeks to be the light that she wishes she had in her darkest moments.
Vironika Tugaleva
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Beautiful.
(in reply to her husband who had asked how she felt moments before her death.).
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING She would tuck Sam into her heart, a bright light for her to take out whenever things were darkest.
SARAH J. MAAS A witch ought never to be frightened in the darkest forest, Granny Weatherwax had once told her, bec...
TERRY PRATCHETT Watching the couple, she silently wishes she had just cleaned out her damn coffee pot.
SOLANGE NICOLE Learn to light a candle in the darkest moments of someone’s life. Be the light that helps others s...
ROY T. BENNETT Sometimes Coraline would forget who she was while she was daydreaming that she was exploring the Arc...
NEIL GAIMAN Deep in her heart, she wasn't sure she deserved to be happy, nor did she believe that she was worthy...
NICHOLAS SPARKS It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
ARISTOTLE It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
ARISTOTLE ONASSIS It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
TAYLOR BENSON No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice...
H. L. MENCKEN No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice...
H.L. MENCKEN No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nic...
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN Did she know, could she know what it meant to him when she turned to him, when she opened herself to...
J.D. ROBB It's during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
ARISTOTLE ONASSIS Belinda stared into the fire for some time, thinking about what she had in her life, and what she ha...
NEIL GAIMAN A quick example of that is a woman who said she'd been healed of throat cancer where the faith h...
JAMES RANDI She has to be careful that she doesn't become her own road show, in which she becomes someone who go...
ALEXANDER BLOOM Rice sold books that explored the darkest realms of the spiritual world. She dressed all in black. S...
DAVID KUO Rice sold books that explored the darkest realms of the spiritual world. She dressed all in black. S...
DAVID KUO Everybody is going to want her again because she is that kind of person. She is very professional an...
HELENA CHRISTENSEN She had a very difficult life. Her mother gave her away when she was little, and the man who took he...
BERNARDO BATIZ The biggest thing with her is she is the type of player a coach wishes they had 10 of. She is hard-n...
CHAD MCKNIGHT She stared at herself in the mirror. Her eyes were dark, almost black, filled with pain. She'd let s...
CHRISTINE FEEHAN She has had those moments all season long. The skill she has that every time she touches the puck th...
TIM MORRIS Audrey had an angelic quality about her. She didn't act like she was better than everyone, she just ...
KEVYN AUCOIN She was afraid of these things that made her suddenly wonder who she was, and what she was going to ...
CARSON MCCULLERS ...4-5-6: when time escapes the day in its most beautiful way. She starves for that beauty, she long...
HUBERT MARTIN She had been waiting for someone to notice her, like, really notice her. She felt that that was the ...
ROSE FALL Then she sat as if paralyzed, thinking. She had never in her life felt such a longing. She wanted Mi...
STIEG LARSSON He was supposed to be the first man to tell her that she was beautiful and help her determine who sh...
ANAIS TORRES She scowled at him until a light appeared in her intelligent eyes, as if she had had an epiphany. "A...
SHERRILYN KENYON The light was so dim that Jaime could scarcely see her, though they stood a scant few feet apart. 'I...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.
J. K. ROWLING She is of the strangest beauty and the darkest courage, and when she walks with intent the earth tre...
NICOLE LYONS It did no good to cry, she had learned that early on. She had also learned that every time she tried...
STIEG LARSSON She is a lady.She gets back up and fights to find joy again. She keeps her word and expect those aro...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Friendship is like love. Just because you wish someone to be your friend doesn't mean that he or she...
OUSSAMA HEDHLI She was very smart, a really sharp kid -- she could have done anything she put her mind to. We calle...
CONNIE KYRIACOU Mary Queen of Scots had a little dog, a Skye terrier, that was devoted to her. Moments after Mary wa...
ELIZABETH WEIN In the teahouses one could hear the most absurd stories, such as how a in a certain place a huge spi...
LAO SHE During my childhood I didn't need to hear stories about evil ogres eating children and so forth; the...
LAO SHE Spain, must we some day tell Filipinas that thou hast no ear for her woes and that if she wishes to ...
JOSE RIZAL At fifty-one, why would she choose to dispose of her house, uproot herself, and come here to be a pa...
DEAN KOONTZ She was nine when she came in, and we had her several months. Her home life was not the best. She wa...
BRENDA WEBB If I called her she would pretend not to hear, but would come a few moments later when it could appe...
ARTHUR WEIGALL I had a bride-to-be walk in here the week after Christmas who wanted a dress to take with her to be ...
CAROLINE BEREND She wanted so to be tranquil, to be someone who took walks in the late-afternoon sun, listening to t...
CARRIE FISHER How do you want to be remembered?
~As someone who did the best she could with the talent she ha...
J.K. ROWLING She was in fear for her life, ... She had been told many times by Rafael that if she left him that h...
CHIEF JOSEPH Those who had seen eyes like hers before understood instantly that she was a woman who had suffered,...
DANIELLE STEEL Suddenly she hated them all because they were different from her, because they carried their losses ...
MARGARET MITCHELL She was a 14-year-old girl locked in a bedroom where she was psychologically tortured and sexually d...
LAWRENCE FISHER Lucy seemed to be imprisoned by a legion of people in her life who always wanted what was right for ...
C. JOYBELL C. The day she realised, it was not about the world but was all about her, she grew the wings. The day ...
AKSHAY VASU Karou wished she could be the kind of girl who was complete unto herself, comfortable in solitude, s...
LAINI TAYLOR Before placing her in her mother's arms, she whispered, as she had at all the other births, hello, l...
TAHMIMA ANAM Philosophy cannot be extinguished, though men will try ... The spirit seeks the light, that is its n...
IAIN PEARS We are ... actually shocked. We always thought she would pick out someone who at least had a convers...
BILL THOMAS She suddenly understood why she had let him kiss her in the diner, why she had wanted him at all. HOLLY BLACK She loved him because he had brought her back to life. She had been like a caterpillar in a cocoon, ...
KEN FOLLETT I’m still not good enough for a girl like her, but she’s back in my life and she needs someone t...
KATIE MCGARRY She is playing a game that she doesn't want to play, but can't seem to quit. As a player she wishes ...
DONNA LYNN HOPE She is someone who pumps you up when you're down. She kind of makes everyone around her play better.
KAYLA PARKER How would Elijah ever understand a life that is dark more than light? Or a shadow of someone who fol...
CHRISTY A. CAMPBELL The feeling that she had never really lived in this world caught her by surprise. It was a fact. She...
HAN KANG Sissy had two great failings. She was a great lover and a great mother. She had so much of tendernes...
BETTY SMITH Unlike some not so gracious winners in the past, she never had an enemies list. She never held it ag...
CYNTHIA STEAD She needs someone who will be everything for her: her friend, her boyfriend, her confidant, her love...
GUILLAUME MUSSO If she had loved him, he would have opened windows, allowed all of that precious light of hers in sh...
AMANDA LANCE In her way, she was a hard one. Faith in any sort of natural justice was nothing but a night light; ...
THOMAS HARRIS She was disoriented. She was out and had to be helped to her corner, despite the fact that she was s...
MAUREEN SHEA Even someone who works with me, like this girl who works with me, her name is Sue. She lives with me...
CAPRICE BOURRET I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. Sh...
TAYLOR LAUTNER A girl who travels knows that deep down she is escaping reality. So she’ll want someone to give he...
LAUREN KLARFELD I want my mom on 'Scream Queens'. She could play someone who is convinced she's Princess...
BILLIE LOURD She was confused. One of the questions she had was, 'Did someone go to jail for it?' It hurt to tell...
CONNIE TRUJILLO She spent hours drawing on her own, trying to perfect her craft. And when she got into music, she ha...
LAURA JOPLIN Humans are funny. The more someone doesn’t want someone, the more that someone wants that someone....
KATE MCGAHAN Is this a negative perspective? The stance of a victim? No, It is a statement of truth. The way it i...
MERYN G. CALLANDER She didn't leave any written instructions. She has verbally expressed her wishes to me and other...
MICHAEL SCHIAVO She plays with her emotions on her sleeve, she's going to yell every once in a while. But her being ...
MARQUETTE BURGESS She started off the season playing much more aggressive because she felt like she had to. She just g...
ANTHONY HOUSTON Perhaps—and this was her most persistent thought, the thought that stayed with her and came sudden...
SHIRLEY JACKSON The little girl had the making of a poet in her who, being told to be sure of her meaning before she...
GRAHAM WALLAS She mentioned someone in New Jersey that threatened to kill her,
EARLE CALDWELL Thirrin Freer Strong-in-the-Arm Lindenshield carried her names with ease. She was thirteen years old...
STUART HILL Yet she likes complications. She wishes she could turn and say: I like people who unbalance me.
COLUM MCCANN She doesn't know any better, what a girl like her needs is a man with both his legs on the land. A m...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Before her marriage she had thought that she had love within her grasp; but since the happiness whic...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT You stop a player like that if you don't have (to stop) all the other players around her. She picks ...
SUE SEMRAU A person is likely to be better than others if he or she seeks all qualities of his or her character...
ANUJ SOMANY The Father and His Two Daughters
A man had two daughters, the one married to a gardener, and the oth...
AESOP When I write stories I am like someone who is in her own country, walking along streets that she has...
NATALIA GINZBURG Though her emotions had not deviated from a jittery frailty she knew that in her own room she could ...
ANNA GODBERSEN As she had been walking from the ward to that room, she had felt such pure hatred that now she had n...
PAULO COELHO I was even a little glad that if it wasn’t going to be me she wanted, it was going to be someone w...
CASSANDRA CLARE Even in that short time he had seen that Anne had great power. She did not care if she quarreled wit...
PHILIPPA GREGORY That was her magic—
she could still see
the sunset
even on those
darkest da...
ATTICUS POETRY Mary awoke from her nightmare with a pounding heart, convinced that she had only imagined Elizabeth'...
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