Not all wounds bleed. Not all illnesses can be seen. If you think that cut will heal on its own you have another thing coming. The ability to heal begins within. I need to take my own advice. I have big gapping lacerations where the flesh may never recover. And they’re my fault. I didn’t tend to my lesions as I should. I left them open to the elements. Rather than focusing on caring for them as I should’ve. I believed they’d heal on their own in time. Time alone doesn’t heal all things. Scars are inevitable when healing by tertiary intent. You can’t grow a garden in soil with no nutritional content. You can’t build a city on quick sand. You can’t cover emotional scarring with a pretty smile. A festering wound won’t heal beautifully. Things won’t ever be the same.
The Mad Mind of Coraline 