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• If I tell you my character has grey hair, you will not see her. If I tell you she has a tiny scar at the upper left corner of her lip from which protrudes one grey whisker—you will make up the rest of her face with absolute clarity. If I tell you my character is waiting in a car, you won’t be ‘caught,’ but if I tell you he pushes his fingers down in the crack of the car seat where the ancient leather has pulled away from the seat frame, and pulls up a small coin purse with a faded note in it—you will be mine.

  Pat Schneider

  Character, Hair, Car

  Pat Schneider (2003). “Writing Alone and with Others”, p.79, Oxford University Press, USA

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• What happens when she's not my memory anymore? What happens when she's not around to tell me about his belt leaving scars across my two-year-old brother's face or when he whacked her so hard that she lost her hearing for a week? Who'll be my memory?" Santangelo doesn't miss a beat. "I will. Ring me." "Same," Raffy says. I look at him. I can't even speak because if I do I know I'll cry but I smile and he knows what I'm thinking.

  Melina Marchetta

  Brother, Memories, Thinking

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• He pulled himself out of hard times, dealt with the scars from it, pushed himself to make a mark. A little bit of the wild side there, always. I told myself, oh no, I won't get tangled up with this one. And I said it again, even when I was tangled up.

  Nora Roberts

  Hard Times, Wild Side, Tangled

  Nora Roberts (2011). “Nora Roberts' Bride Quartet”, p.748, Penguin

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• If there is love, smallpox scars are as pretty as dimples. I'll love your face no matter what it looks like. Because it's yours.

  Stephen King

  Love, Looks, Dimples

  Stephen King (2011). “11/22/63: A Novel”, p.580, Simon and Schuster

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• No one has imagined us. We want to live like trees, sycamores blazing through the sulfuric air, dappled with scars, still exuberantly budding, our animal passion rooted in the city.

  Adrienne Rich

  Passion, Animal, Air

  Adrienne Rich (2013). “The Dream of a Common Language: Poems 1974-1977”, p.25, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I'm not afraid of scars, be them emotional or otherwise. I think it builds character, and if it doesn't destroy you, I truly believe it makes us stronger.

  Nathan Parsons

  Believe, Character, Emotional

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• They encouraged you to put some of your weight in their hands and soon as you felt how light and lovely it was, they studied your scars and tribulations.

  Toni Morrison

  Light, Hands, Lovely

  Toni Morrison (2014). “Beloved”, p.16, Random House

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• ...They are merely scars, not mortal wounds and you must use them to propel you forward.

  Peter David

  Use, Mortals, Wounds

  Peter David (2002). “New Frontier”, p.161, Simon and Schuster

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• Every scar in my face is worth it.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Faces, Worth It

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• You and your scars. Please! You don't kill youself like this!" I gesture, holding a wrist turned up to the ceiling, then pretending to cut across it with my other hand. "That's just a cry for help. That's just attention. Everbody knows that. Cutting across just gets you to the hospital. That's just from movies and TV shows and stuff like that. You didn't really try to kill yourself. you just wanted attention, but you screwed up. Try harder next time.

  Barry Lyga

  Cutting, Hands, Tv Shows

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• Cleaning me up is just a preliminary step to determining my new look. With my acid-damaged hair, sunburned skin, and ugly scars, the prep team has to make me pretty and then damage, burn, and scare me in a more attractive way.

  Suzanne Collins

  Team, Hair, Skins

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.59, Scholastic Inc.

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• Well — I was lucky once, wasn't I?” said Harry, pointing at his scar. “I might get lucky again.

  J. K. Rowling

  Lucky, Might, Said

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• Lassiter came in alone, likely because Doc Jane had returned to the Pit. And the angel was naked as a jaybird… and just frickin’ fine. No bullet holes, no scars, no contusions. “You keep looking at me like that and you’d better buy me dinner afterward.

  J.R. Ward

  Angel, Naked, Pits

  J.R. Ward (2012). “Lover Reborn: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.289, Penguin

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• Silk didn't care if it slid over scars or smooth, untouched skin. I'd earned my right to be paranoid.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Skins, Care, Smooth

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter collection 11-15”, p.15, Penguin

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• She opened her mouth to answer, but he was already kissing her. She had kissed him so many times—soft gentle kisses, hard and desperate ones, brief brushes of the lips that said good-bye, and kisses that seemed to go on for hours—and this was no different. The way the memory of someone who had once lived in a house might linger even after they were gone, like a sort of psychic imprint, her body remembered Jace. Remembered the way he tasted, the slant of his mouth over hers, his scars under her fingers, the shape of his body under her hands.

  Cassandra Clare

  Memories, Kissing, Bye

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “City of Lost Souls”, p.231, Simon and Schuster

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• It is very sad to me that some people are so intent on leaving their mark on the world that they don’t care if that mark is a scar.

  John Green

  I Hate You, People, Leaving

  Hank Green @hankgreen, twitter.com. January 09, 2011.

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• Some scars never heal. And he sounds like he has a lot of them.' 'But Christ had scars too, even on His risen Body. Wounds in this life become glory in the next.

  Regina Doman

  Sound, Body, Next

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• Some days you go bear hunting and you get eaten. Some days you come home with a nice rug to roll around on, and bear steaks. What they don't tell you as a kid is that sometimes you get the rug and steaks, but you also get some nice scars to go with them. As a child you don't understand that you can win, but that's it's not always worth the price. Once you understand and accept that possibility you become a real grown up, and the world becomes a much more serious place. Not less fun, but once you realize what can go wrong, it's a lot scarier to go hunting "bears".

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Children, Fun, Real

  FaceBook post by Laurell K Hamilton from Nov 18, 2011

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• Grandma, please. It’s okay. Dad’s doing a great job. I give him kudos for at least being calm and rational, and not losing his temper with everyone around him who isn’t in childbirth. And he has yet to start shooting lighting bolts at people. Poor Damien still has a burn scar.” – Kat

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Jobs, Dad, Grandma

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2011). “Retribution”, p.400, St. Martin's Press

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• Praise God we don't have to hide scars

  Jonny Diaz

  Praise, Praise God

  Song: Scars

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• With undead armies, psychotic angels and exploding airships, Scar Night is a gripping, ripping yarn which rattles along at a great pace. Tether all that to the knock-out image at the heart of the novel-Deepgate, a Gothic city built on a network of chains over a great abyss-and you have urban fantasy at its best.

  Hal Duncan

  Angel, Heart, Army

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• Annual plants are nature's emergency medical service, seeded in sounds and scars to hold the land until the perennial cover is re-established.

  Wendell Berry

  Land, Emergencies, Sound

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• I never met a white person till I was a grown man. I never went to school with a white till I was twenty-six years old, at Harvard Law School. The insult of segregation was searing and unforgettable. It has left a great scar, and will be with me for the rest of my life.

  Randall Robinson

  School, Men, Years

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 26, 2005.

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• Scars show toughness: that you've been through it, and you're still standing.

  Theo Rossi

  Shows, Stills, Standing

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• I believe actual violence scars children much more than violence in storybooks.

  Robert Paul Weston

  Children, Believe, Violence

  Source: www.yabookshelf.com

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