I am painfully situated, Utterson; my position is a very strange - a very strange one. It is one of those affairs that cannot be mended by talking.
Never love someone whom you think you need to mend – or who makes you feel like you should be mended. There are boys out there who look for shining girls; they will stand next to you and say quiet things in your ear that only you can hear and that will slowly drain the joy out of your heart. The books about vampires are true, baby. Drive a stake through their hearts and run away.
They had battled and bloodied one another, they had kept secrets, broken hearts, lied, betrayed, exiled, they had walked away, said goodbye and sworn it was forever, and somehow, every time, they had mended, they had forgiven, they had survived. Some mistakes could never be fixed - some, but not all. Some people can't be driven away, no matter how hard you try. Some friendships won't break.
But now, I am also learning this: WE can be mended. We mend each other.
The world breaks everyone or nearly everyone, of their childish illusions, assumptions and wishes, often painfully and afterwards due to the personal growth in practical experience, insight and the resulting wisdom many are strong at the broken places just like mended broken bones often are, and some people even have the great insight to be grateful for the purifying fire.
Unreal friendship may turn to real But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended
A fault is sooner found than mended.
The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
What's amiss I'll strive to mend,And endure what can't be mended.
Old houses mended, Cost little less than new before they're ended.
Least said, soonest mended
If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumber'd here While these visions did appear.
Some things are best mended by a break.
Little said is soonest mended.
A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints.
I let him know a hurt had been mended in a way that he couldn’t have known, and for that alone there would always be a piece of me indebted to him.
From this new and intimate perspective, she learned a simple, obvious thing she had always known, and everyone knew; that a person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn, not easily mended.
The enemy of the moment is not as important as our own inner weakness. If this is not mended we are already defeated, though no foreign conqueror stands within our walls.
Grief never mended no broken bones.
