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"Most things break, including hearts.
The lessons of life amount not to wisdom,
but to scar tissue and callus."

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"Other times, I look at my scars and see something else: a girl who was trying to cope with something horrible that she should never have had to live through at all. My scars show pain and suffering, but they also show my will to survive. They're part of my history that'll always be there."

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"Children show scars like medals.
Lovers use them as a secrets to reveal.
A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh."

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"Contrary to what we may have been taught to think, unnecessary and unchosen suffering wounds us but need not scar us for life. It does mark us. What we allow the mark of our suffering to become is in our own hands."

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"Everyone always wants to know how you can tell when it's true love,
and the answer is this: when the pain doesn't fade and the scars don't heal,
and it's too damned late."

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"He showed me his scars, and in return he let me pretend that I had none."

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"I don't want to die without any scars."

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"I have walked a stair of swords,
I have worn a coat of scars.
I have vowed with hollow words,
I have lied my way to the stars
-Songs of Sapphique"

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"I think perfection is ugly.
Somewhere in the things humans make,
I want to see scars,
failure,
disorder, distortion."

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"I want to leave a mark.
But Van Houten: The marks humans leave are too often scars."

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"In a perverse way, I was glad for the stitches, glad it would show, that there would be scars.
What was the point in just being hurt on the inside?
It should bloody well show."

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"It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree.
The wounds remain.
In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens.
But it is never gone."

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"My scars remind me that I did indeed survive my deepest wounds. That in itself is an accomplishment. And they bring to mind something else, too. They remind me that the damage life has inflicted on me has, in many places, left me stronger and more resilient. What hurt me in the past has actually made me better equipped to face the present."

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"On the girl's brown legs there were many small white scars. I was thinking, Do those scars cover the whole of you, like the stars and the moons on your dress? I thought that would be pretty too, and I ask you right here please to agree with me that a scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers want us to think. But you and I, we must make an agreement to defy them. We must see all scars as beauty. Okay? This will be our secret. Because take it from me, a scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived."






"Scars. A sign that you had been hurt. A sign that you had healed."





"Scars are just another kind of memory."





"Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real."




"Scars are not injuries,
A scar is a healing.
After injury, a scar is what makes you whole."





"Some people see scars, and it is wounding they remember.
To me they are proof of the fact that there is healing."





"Stop punishing yourself for being someone with a heart. You cannot protect yourself from suffering. To live is to grieve. You are not protecting yourself by shutting yourself off from the world. You are limiting yourself."






"The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What's left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars."

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The marks humans leave are too often scars."

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"The wound is the place where the Light enters you."

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"Time heals all wounds.
But not this one.
Not yet."

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"We die a little every day and by degrees we're reborn into different men,
older men in the same clothes, with the same scars."




"Writers remember everything...especially the hurts. Strip a writer to the buff, point to the scars, and he'll tell you the story of each small one. From the big ones you get novels. A little talent is a nice thing to have if you want to be a writer, but the only real requirement is the ability to remember the story of every scar.