Scar Quotes - Page 11

• To be alive at all is to have scars.

  John Steinbeck

  Alive

  John Steinbeck (2008). “The Winter of Our Discontent”, p.101, Penguin

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• Thank Artemis, it is you! That little scar on your lip--you tried to eat a stapler when you were two!" ... Hedge nodded like he approved of Jason's taste. "Staplers--excellent source of iron.

  Rick Riordan

  Two, Iron, Jason

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• We didn't talk about our scars, the ones you could see and the ones you couldn't.

  Sarah Dessen

  Sarah Dessen (2009). “Along for the Ride”, p.176, Penguin

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• (...the non-conformist, how do you keep from getting scarred?)/i don’t! i got a scar here…and uh i got a scar on my knee…and uh a few scars on my soul.

  Marlon Brando

  Soul, Knees, Non Conformist

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• I always hated when my scars started to fade, because as long as I could still see them, I knew why I was hurting.

  Jodi Picoult

  Hurt, Pain, Long

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.373, Simon and Schuster

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• The warm dampness of her breath made me shiver at the mix of the familiar and the unknown, with a soft exhalation she shifted her head and her lips found my collarbone, teasingly shy of my old scar. Tendrils pulsed in time with my heart, building on the ones before to an unseen height.

  Kim Harrison

  Heart, Unseen, Shy

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• That's when it struck me: how gorgeous we all were, even with cellulite (saw a lot of that) and stretch marks, scars and tattoos. Let me just say this, not single body was perfect, not even the fittest of women there.

  Justina Chen

  Tattoo, Perfect, Body

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• I'm sorry. (Valerius) It's okay. We all have scars. I'm just lucky most of mine are on the outside. (Tabitha)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Sorry, Lucky, Okay

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• She looked at David closely, and the feeling was still there. She could see that his forehead was too high, that a small scar cut a white stroke through his eyebrow. And his smile was pretty crooked, really. But it was as if something had changed inside Tally's head, something that had turned his face pretty to her.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Cutting, Eyebrows, White

  Scott Westerfeld (2011). “Uglies”, p.238, Simon and Schuster

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• Brigan," she said, annoyed that he had not understood. "I’ll always be beautiful. Look at me. I have one hundred and sixty two bug bites, and has it made me any less beautiful? I’m missing two fingers and I have scars all over, but does anyone care? No! It just makes me more interesting! I’ll always be like this, stuck in this beautiful form, and you’ll have to deal with it." He seemed to sense that she expected a grave response, but for the moment, he was incapable. "I suppose it’s a burden I must bear," he said, grinning.

  Kristin Cashore

  Beautiful, Two, Interesting

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.278, Penguin

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• His brothers could tease him about his height or the number of scars he was collecting on his body. He could take the joke when they said he would die having never won a fair wrestling match. But the topic of Bettin still smarted too much. He'd imagined being with her always. Now when he closed his eyes, he had trouble imagining anything else.

  Shannon Hale

  Brother, Wrestling, Eye

  Shannon Hale (2010). “River Secrets”, p.15, A&C Black

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• Time heals. No, it doesn't. At best, time is the great leveler, sweeping us all into coffins. We find ways to distract ourselves from the pain. Time is neither scalpel nor bandage. It is indifferent. Scar tissue is not a good thing. It is merely the wound's other face.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Pain, Coffins, Tissues

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• Jealous?...Of what? I don't want a foul scar right across my head, thanks. I don't think getting your head cut open makes you that special, myself.

  J. K. Rowling

  Jealous, Cutting, Thinking

  J. K. Rowling (1999). “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets”, Raincoast Books

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• All right." Shimmering droplets on her eyelashes, stars caught in transition. "But will you replace it with something for me?" "Anything." His body was hers. Brushing her fingers over his lips, she said, "You gave me an eagle. I want to give you one, too." A tender kiss pressed to the scar. "I want us to fly together.

  Nalini Singh

  Stars, Kissing, Eagles

  Nalini Singh (2013). “Heart of Obsidian: A Psy-Changeling Novel”, p.352, Penguin

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• And you haven’t been betrayed yet, Nick. You don’t know what that’s like. What it does to you. The scars it leaves that never fade. (Ambrose)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Doe, Betrayed, Fades

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2016). “Chronicles of Nick”, p.237, St. Martin's Griffin

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• I first became fascinated with the Sears catalogue because all the people in its pages were perfect. Nearly everybody I knew had something missing, a finger cut off, a toe split, an ear half-chewed away, an eye clouded with blindness from a glancing fence staple. And if they didn't have something missing, they were carrying scars from barbed wire, or knives, or fishhooks. But the people in the catalogue had no such hurts. They were not only whole, had all their arms and legs and eyes on their unscarred bodies, but they were also beautiful.

  Harry Crews

  Beautiful, Hurt, Eye

  Harry Crews (1995). “A Childhood: The Biography of a Place”, p.58, University of Georgia Press

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• And what about you-the rest of you-did you notice the scars you left behind? No. Probably not. Because most of them can't be seen with the naked eye.

  Jay Asher

  Eye, Naked, Left Behind

  Jay Asher (2011). “Thirteen Reasons Why”, p.68, Penguin

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• The person may have a scar, but it also means they have a story

  Jodi Picoult

  Mean, Stories, May

  Randy Susan Meyers, M. J. Rose, Ronlyn Domingue, Sarah Pekkanen, Jodi Picoult (2013). “Atria Book Club Bites: A Free Sampling of Ten Books Guaranteed to Feed Your Discussion”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• Each wedding picture was less of a memento than a scar. Proof of some horror movie scenario Katherine Kenton has survived.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Horror, Memento, Proof

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Tell-All”, p.22, Random House

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• You can blame your ugliness for keeping people at bay, when in reality you're crippled by the thought of letting another person close enough to popentially scar you even more deeply. You can tell yourself that it's safer to love someone who will never really love you back, because you can't lose someone you never had.

  Jodi Picoult

  Love You, Reality, People

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• I saw his scars - the visible ones-and saw how breaking him had not made him any less beautiful. If anything, he stood stronger, because he'd survived.

  David Levithan

  Beautiful, Stronger, Saws

  Andrea Cremer, David Levithan (2013). “Invisibility”, p.39, Penguin

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• Scars are medals branded on the flesh, and your enemies will be frightened by them because they are proof of your long experience of battle.

  Paulo Coelho

  Long, Enemy, Battle

  Paulo Coelho (2013). “Manuscript Found in Accra”, p.17, HarperCollins UK

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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

  Catherine Fisher

  Song, Stars, Coats

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• The marks humans leave are too often scars. You build a hideous minimall or start a coup or try to become a rock star and you'll think "they'll remember me now," but (a) they don't remember you, and (b) all you leave behind are more scars. Your coup becomes a dictatorship. Your minimall becomes a lesion.

  John Green

  Stars, Thinking, Rocks

  "The Fault in Our Stars". Book by John Green, 2012.

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• I pointed to the wound. "It's missing," I said. My grandmother smiled, and that was all it took for me to stop seeing the scar, and to recognize her again. "Yes," she said. "But see how much of me is left?

  Jodi Picoult

  Grandmother, Missing, Said

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.403, Simon and Schuster

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