“Germain is a hero of sorts, by the end, because he has the courage to lose everything to our unhealable human sickness: the need to know.”

“There are children who are so badly traumatised that they are unhealable.”

“This harvesting bewrites the unhealable Monogrammed Beach Towels of affair and assenting a brew-house.”

“Drought blasts the turf, but its unhealing blast to human hope is glossed over.”

“He carried one such wound in his own back, unhealing, a permanent crater in his soul.”

“I feel sure that here before me were assembled those, in whose unhealing hearts the sight of those bleak tablets sympathetically caused the old wounds to bleed afresh.”

“It's a painful thing to do, but this issue of race is still one that's unhealed in our country, and it needs to be addressed.”

“And racial inequality is America's great unfinished business, the wound that remains unhealed.”

“She is a tightly fitted mask of compulsive politeness pulled over both great grief and corrosive, unhealed cruelties.”