A scratch QUOTES

1 " Volume II: Chapter V
What are we, the inhabitants of this globe, least among the many that people infinite space? Our minds embrace infinity; the visible mechanism of our being is subject to merest accident. Day by day we are forced to believe this. He whom a scratch has disorganized, he who disappears from apparent life under the influence of the hostile agency at work around us, had the same powers as I—I also am subject to the same laws. In the face of all this we call ourselves lords of the creation, wielders of the elements, masters of life and death, and we allege in excuse of this arrogance, that though the individual is destroyed, man continues for ever. "

― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley , The Last Man

2 " It is not against reason, said the Englishman, to prefer the destruction of the world to a scratch on your finger – how much easier to understand the same price for the gash in your soul. "

― Paul Hoffman , The Last Four Things (The Left Hand of God, #2)

3 " And she looked upon the mirror that was given as a gift. She hated everything about it, from the circular size of it, to the color, and the wooden frame that held it in place. But mostly, she hated looking at herself. Especially into this one that had a scratch on its glass surface, which would reflect back to her face. And as she looked, it would cut her as the words her father would often say, in telling her she was ugly. "

― Anthony Liccione

4 " In the monotony of everyday existence grief comes as a holiday, and a fire is an entertainment. A scratch embellishes an empty face. "

― Maxim Gorky , My Childhood

5 " Many people are seeking, at this very moment, to shelter themselves under the wing of the federal eagle; imagining, I presume, that her bosom has all the softness and snugness of an eider-down pillow. But she has no great tenderness, even in her best of moods, and, sooner or later, --oftener sooner than late,-- is apt to fling off her nestlings with a scratch of her claw, a dab of her beak, or a rankling wound from her barbed arrows. "

― Nathaniel Hawthorne , The Scarlet Letter

6 " Young Bride had a scratch on her neck from the knife, but no other external injuries. It seemed she was killed by the shock the drunks gave her.

After sixty-odd years, reliving the trauma of that fateful night was too much to bear.

There was no funeral procession. She was buried on the unlucky hill on the outskirts of the village.

The crickets, however, remained around her shack and continued to sing until the first snow fell. "

― , Red Snow

7 " ..her smile, which was her pretty feature, was never so pretty as when her sprightly phrase had a scratch lurking in it. "

― Henry James , Roderick Hudson

8 " You're back," Sam said, as if he couldn't quite believe it.She lifted her chin, stuffing her hands in her pockets. " Obviously." He tilted his head slightly to the side. " How was the desert?" There wasn't a scratch on him. Of course, her face had healed too but... " Hot," she said. Sam let out a breathy chuckle. "

9 " Happiness is having a scratch for every itch. "