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1 " It was entirely possible that one song could destroy your life. Yes, musical doom could fall on a lone human form and crush it like a bug. The song, that song, was sent from somewhere else to find you, to pick the scab of your whole existence. The song was your personal shitty fate, manifest as a throb of pop floating out of radios everywhere. "
― Jonathan Lethem , The Fortress of Solitude
2 " Despair was strength. Despair was the scab and the scar. The walled city in a time of plague. A closed fortification. A sure thing, because it was always safer, less painful to stop trying than it was to repeatedly try and fail. Failure-disappointment-was a poison in my blood. Despair was the antidote. "
― Norah Vincent
3 " I have a big hole in my heart," I said. " But it'll close over." I don't want to sound all Dr. Phil," she said. " But don't let the scab seal the pain in, okay?" That's good advice," I said. " I hope I can manage it. "
4 " Pride is a wound, and vanity is the scab on it. One's life picks at the scab to open the wound again and again. In men, it seldom heals and often grows septic. "
5 " The itch of disputing is the scab of the churches. "
