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• People think first love is sweet, and never sweeter than when that first bond snaps. You've heard a thousand pop and country songs that prove the point; some fool got his heart broke. Yet that first broken heart is always the most painful, the slowest to mend, and leaves the most visible scar. What's so sweet about that?

  Stephen King

  Country, Song, Sweet

  Stephen King (2014). “Joyland”, p.11, Titan Books

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• I thought I was going to die there, alone. I thought I would never see you again." He seemed to shake off the memory and leaned back on an elbow, gazing at her with a lop-sided smile on his face. "The Shadrin left some scars that aren't healed yet. But I would have to take off my pants to show them to you." "Really?" Kahlan gave a throaty laugh. "I think I better have a look... to see if everything is all right.

  Terry Goodkind

  Memories, Thinking, Laughing

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• I miss him like one might miss a scar, or wooden leg, something disfiguring but characteristic.

  Nick Hornby

  Missing, Legs, Might

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• Scar tissue has no character. It's not like skin. It doesn't show age or illness or pallor or tan. It has no pores, no hair, no wrinkles. It's like a slip cover. It shields and disguises what's beneath. That's why we grow it; we have something to hide.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Character, Wrinkles, Hair

  FaceBook post by Susanna Kaysen from Mar 08, 2016

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• Perhaps we are in this world to search for love, find it and lose it, again and again. With each love, we are born anew, and with each love that ends we collect a new wound. I am covered with proud scars.

  Isabel Allende

  World, Proud, Searching For Love

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• His brow is seamed with line and scar; His cheek is red and dark as wine; The fires as of a Northern star Beneath his cap of sable shine. His right hand, bared of leathern glove, Hangs open like an iron gin, You stoop to see his pulses move, To hear the blood sweep out and in. He looks some king, so solitary In earnest thought he seems to stand, As if across a lonely sea He gazed impatient of the land. Out of the noisy centuries The foolish and the fearful fade; Yet burn unquenched these warrior eyes, Time hath not dimmed, nor death dismayed.

  Walter de La Mare

  Lonely, Kings, Stars

  Walter De la Mare (1920). “Collected Poems, 1901-1918”

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• What they forget is that, from Ancient Greece on, the people who returned from battle were either dead on their shields or stronger, despite and because of their scars.

  Paulo Coelho

  People, Battle, Stronger

  Paulo Coelho (2011). “The Witch of Portobello”, p.40, HarperCollins UK

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• Then she took my hand and touched it to the wound beside her eye. I caressed the half-inch scar. As I did so, the waves of her consciousness pulsed through my fingertips and into me - a delicate resonance of longing. Probably someone should take this girl in his arms and hold her tight, I thought. Probably someone other than me. Someone qualified to give her something. "Goodbye, Mr. Wind-Up Bird. See you again sometime.

  Haruki Murakami

  Girl, Goodbye, Eye

  "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle". Book by Haruki Murakami, October 10, 2011.

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• Coincidences are the scars of fate.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Fate, Coincidence

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.420, Penguin

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

  China Mieville

  Inspirational, Get Well, Healing

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• You got to know your limits. Once is enough, but you got to learn. A little caution never hurt anyone. A good woodsman has only one scar on him. No more, no less.

  Haruki Murakami

  Hurt, Littles, Limits

  Haruki Murakami (1993). “Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World: A Novel”, Vintage

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• How I saw in her my own true nature. What was beneath my skin. Inside my bones... Even though I was young, I could see the pain of the flesh and the worth of the pain. This is how a daughter honors her mother. It is shou so deep it is in your bones. The pain of the flesh is nothing. The pain you must forget. Because sometimes that is the only way to remember what is in your bones. You must peel off your skin, and that of your mother, and her mother before her. Until there is nothing. No scar, no skin, no flesh.

  Amy Tan

  Daughter, Mother, Pain

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• That was the goth stage, where I decided I'd never get the girl of my dreams because of my scars. Not to mention my hairstyle. (pause) But then she slammed a door handle into my gut. And when a girl does that to a boy, it means she likes him.

  Lisa McMann

  Girl, Dream, Mean

  Lisa McMann (2010). “Wake”, p.177, Simon and Schuster

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• If the Universe came to an end every time there was some uncertainty about what had happened in it, it would never have got beyond the first picosecond. And many of course don't. It's like a human body, you see. A few cuts and bruises here and there don't hurt it. Not even major surgery if it's done properly. Paradoxes are just the scar tissue. Time and space heal themselves up around them and people simply remember a version of events which makes as much sense as they require it to make.

  Douglas Adams

  Hurt, Cutting, Space

  Douglas Adams (2016). “Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Box Set: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul”, p.215, Simon and Schuster

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• Pain or perspective, that's the choice.' . . . You choose pain - you choose to fight it, deny it, bury it - then yes, the choice is always hard. But you choose perspective - embrace your history, give it credit for the better person it can make you, scars and all - the choice gets easier every time.

  Ted Dekker

  Pain, Fighting, Giving

  Ted Dekker, Erin Healy (2009). “Kiss”, p.321, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Do unto others as you would have them do unto you,'Aubrey. I will avenge this scar and every scar you have put into my heart. -Risika(In The Forest Of The Night)

  Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

  Heart, Night, Forests

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• Funny how internal scars never healed. They were the souvenirs of the past.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Past, Souvenirs, Healed

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Born of Night”, p.115, Macmillan

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• Love heals scars love left

  Henry Rollins

  Best Love, Heal, Left

  Henry Rollins (2009). “The Portable Henry Rollins”, p.160, Villard

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• The damage was permanent; there would always be scars. But even the angriest scars faded over time until it was difficult to see them written on the skin at all, and the only thing that remained was the memory of how painful it had been.

  Jodi Picoult

  Love, Inspirational, Pain

  Jodi Picoult (2002). “Picture Perfect”, p.359, Penguin

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• Every scar has a life of its own and a space in my heart.

  Paulo Coelho

  Heart, Space, Emotion

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• Bones heal, pain is temporary, and chicks dig scars

  Evel Knievel

  Pain, Bones, Chicks

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• Guileless and without vanity, we were still in love with ourselves then. We felt comfortable in our skins, enjoyed the news that our senses released to us, admired our dirt, cultivated our scars, and could not comprehend this unworthiness. Jealousy we understood and thought natural--a desire to have what somebody else had; but envy was a strange, new feeling for us.

  Jim Morrison

  Vanity, Envy, Feelings

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• My face is so pretty, you don’t see a scar, which proves I’m the king of the ring by far.

  Muhammad Ali

  Kings, Faces, Prove

  Twitter post from Nov 30, 2010

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• Experience is the great teacher; unfortunately, experience leaves mental scars, and scar tissue contracts.

  William James Mayo

  Teacher, Science, Experience

  William James Mayo (1921). “In the time of Henry Jacob Bigelow”

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• I carry with me many scars, but I also carry with me moments that would not have happened if I had not dared to go beyond my limits

  Paulo Coelho

  Limits, Moments, Happened

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