A rattlesnake that doesn't bite teaches you nothing.
Memory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has designed it to attract.
Fiction is [a form of writing which] reveals truths that reality obscures.
It is easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit to forgive them for having witnessed your own.
"A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever."