Tag Name "Bandage" (27)

But that quickly faded, and he frowned. You're bleeding, he said. What happened? Claire sighed and held up her wrist to show him the bandage. Man, you would be so embarrassed if I said it was something else. Michael looked blank. I'm a girl, Michael, it could have been all natural, you know. Tampons?

...This fear was unbearable. It unwrapped who she was, as neatly as he'd unwound her bandage, leaving too much pain and ugliness exposed. Nerve endings he'd said they were the problem [causing phantom pain in the amputated limb]. Things that cut off, that ended abruptly or died--like parents and marriages--kept hurting forever.

We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself.