A scar QUOTES

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

― China Miéville , The Scar (New Crobuzon, #2)

2 " A man with a beard was always a little suspect anyway. You couldn't say you wore a beard because you liked a beard. People didn't like you for telling the truth. You had to say you had a scar so you couldn't shave. "

― John Steinbeck , Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)

3 " There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with. "

― Harry Crews

4 " ...they left a scar that would fade but never vanish. "

5 " Boys are just boys after all, but sometimes girls really seem to be the turn of a pale wrist, or the sudden jut of a hip, or a clutch of very dark hair falling across a freckled forehead. I'm not saying that's what they really are. I'm just saying sometimes it seems that way, and that those details (a thigh mole, a full face flush, a scar the precise shape and size of a cashew nut) are so many hooks waiting to land you. "

― Zadie Smith

6 " He'd been told that women were sensitive about such things, as if a scar could somehow ruin their beauty, but scars were just stories told in flesh... "

7 " Misery is a scar on the soul, that if it begins in childhood, it lasts the whole lifetime. I understand that no two scars are alike, but I also ask myself; even if these scars are not alike, aren’t these things engraved on our souls signed by which we know each other?Aren’t we also alike? "

8 " I can't remember the poem
That pierced through my heart
It was the saddest I heard
Of all truths ever spoken
It left a scar in me
A wound that doesn't heal
But the words are forgotten
So is a big part of me "

― A.A. Patawaran , HAI[NA]KU and other poems

9 " The worst type of crying wasn't the kind everyone could see--the wailing on street corners, the tearing at clothes. No, the worst kind happened when your soul wept and no matter what you did, there was no way to comfort it. A section withered and became a scar on the part of your soul that survived. For people like me and Echo, our souls contained more scar tissue than life. "

― Katie McGarry , Pushing the Limits (Pushing the Limits, #1)

10 " Your grief is something to be admired – the pain of severance. A scar where something used to be. "

― Simon Van Booy , Everything Beautiful Began After

11 " It was wrong to want to touch a scar and call it beautiful. "

― Marie Rutkoski , The Winner's Crime (The Winner's Trilogy, #2)

12 " I spend my nights thinking the worst
And telling myself that everything's going to work out
I keep kicking myself in the mouth
Opening up every cut that should be a scar by now "

― Real Friends

13 " I also believe that parents, if they love you, will hold you up safely, above their swirling waters, and sometimes that means you'll never know what they endured, and you may treat them unkindly, in a way you otherwise wouldn't.
But there's a story behind everything. How a picture got on a wall. How a scar got on your face. Sometimes the stories are simple, and sometimes they are hard and heartbreaking. But behind all your stories is always your mother's story, because hers is where yours begins. "

― Mitch Albom , For One More Day

14 " Forgiving someone isn't just about doing good to another. It's also about healing a scar in your own heart. "

― Nouman Ali Khan

15 " My mom’s smile is genuine,A lilac beamingIn the presence of her Sun.Indentions in the sand proveTime’s linear progression,Her hair yet unblighted,Carrying midnight’s consistency.Clear tracks fading as theMovement slips furtherIn the past.CheekbonesHigh, soft,In summer’s hue,Hopeful.Each step’s unknown impact,A future looking back.My father’s strength:One whoseLife is in his arms.Squinting past the camera,He rests upon a rockLike caramel corn half eaten,Just to the leftOf man-made concrete conventionDaylight’s eraserRemoving color to his right.Dustin sitsIn my father’s lap,Open mouth of a droolingBig mouth bass;Muscle toneOf a well exercisedJelly fish,He looks at meHalf aware;His wheelchairPerched at the edgeOf parking lot gravel graftedLike a scar on nature’s beach,Opening to the ironic splendorOf a bitter tasting lake.I took the picture.Age 11.Capturing the pinnacle arcOf a sonTo my lilacWhoOutlived him and weeps,Still.Their sky has staple holes –Maybe that’s how theLightLeaked out. "

16 " 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. "

― Chris Cleave , Little Bee

17 " We choose our truths the way we choose our gods, single-sightedly, single-mindedly, no other way to feel or see or think. We lock ourselves into our ways, and click all the truths to one.

We put our truths together in pieces, but you use nails and I use glue. You mend with staples. I mend with screws. You stitch what I would bandage.

Your truth may not look like mine, but that is not what matters. What matters is this: You can look at a scar and see hurt, or you can look at a scar and see healing. Try to understand. "

― Sheri Reynolds , A Gracious Plenty

18 " Could a scar be like the rings of a tree, reopened with each emotional season? "

― Magenta Periwinkle , Cutting Class

19 " Nothing leaves a scar upon an Authors heart more than a book they've written with purpose going unread. "

― Mark W Boyer

20 " He lowered his voice. " You are a true shield-maiden; you do not turn from a scar on a man's face." I looked at him and did not lower my eyes. " My father was an ealdorman, and his brother ealdorman after him. He taught me that a scar is the badge of honour of the warrior, and this I believe." He regarded me for a long moment. " I think I am glad we did not face your father and his brother in battle," he said, " for they were of better stuff than what we have found here." In saying this, he gave my dead kinsmen much praise. I felt that praise came rarely from the Danes, and took a strange pleasure in hearing him say this. I did not speak, but he lifted his cup to me, and I again took up mine. - Sidroc the Dane to Ceridwen "

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