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• I watched my beautiful sister running . . . and I knew she was not running away from me or toward me. Like someone who has survived a gut-shot, the wound had been closing, closing - braiding into a scar for eight long years.

  Alice Sebold

  Beautiful, Running, Eight

  Alice Sebold (2014). “The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic”, p.172, Pan Macmillan

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• What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?

  Lord Byron

  Philosophical, Wounds And Scars, Deep Wounds

  Lord Byron (2015). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.75, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Of all the priceless objects left behind, this is what we rescue. These artifacts. Memory cues. Useless souvenirs. Nothing you could auction. The scars left from happiness.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Memories, Useless, Auctions

  Chuck Palahniuk (2003). “Diary: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

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• Don't go looking for boys in the dark They will say pretty things then leave you with scars. Do go looking for boys in the park For that is where the true gentlemen are.

  Anna Godbersen

  Life, Dark, Boys

  Anna Godbersen (2014). “The Luxe Complete Collection: The Luxe, Rumors, Envy, Splendor”, p.76, Harper Collins

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• On Harry dug, deeper and deeper into the hard, cold earth, subsuming his grief in sweat, denying the pain in his scar.

  J. K. Rowling

  Pain, Grief, Sweat

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• Scars are proof we can can survive

  Megan Hart

  Proof

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• I have these obsessions that I do not completely understand, with the deep mark, with the ruptured surface, with scars and traces, traces that human beings are leaving on the earth. It is not a comment on the environment... it is metaphysical.

  Sophie Ristelhueber

  Leaving, Earth, Obsession

  Sophie Ristelhueber, Cheryl A. Brutvan, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (2001). “Details of the world”, Museum of Fine Arts Boston

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• The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What's left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Kissing, Race, Abuse

  Bertolt Brecht (2015). “Brecht Collected Plays: 4: Round Heads & Pointed Heads; Fear & Misery of the Third Reich; Senora Carrar's Rifles; Trial of Lucullus; Dansen; How Much Is Your Iron?”, p.377, A&C Black

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• ....he said it was interesting. He used the word 'textured'. He said 'smooth' is boring but 'textured' was interesting, and the scar meant that I was stronger than whatever had tried to hurt me.

  Jeannette Walls

  Hurt, Interesting, Stronger

  Jeannette Walls (2006). “The Glass Castle: A Memoir”, p.286, Simon and Schuster

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• What do I care how 'e looks? I am good-looking enough for both of us, I theenk! All these scars show is zat my husband is brave!

  J. K. Rowling

  Husband, Brave, Looks

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• Nico was wrong. The Book of Fate isn't already written. It's written every day. Some scars never heal. Then again, some do.

  Brad Meltzer

  Book, Fate, Heal

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• If I am more alive because love burns and chars me, as a fire, given wood or wind, feels new elation, it's that he who lays me low is my salvation, and invigorates the more, the more he scars me.

  Michelangelo

  Inspiration, Fire, Wind

  Michelangelo (2000). “The Complete Poems of Michelangelo”, p.34, University of Chicago Press

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• My life was hurrying, racing tragically toward its end. And yet at the same time it was dripping so slowly, so very slowly now, hour by hour, minute by minute. One always has to wait until the sugar melts, the memory dies, the wound scars over, the sun sets, the unhappiness lifts and fades away.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Memories, Waiting, Racing

  Simone De Beauvoir (2013). “The Woman Destroyed”, p.49, Pantheon

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• Selfishly, perhaps, Catti-brie had determined that the assassin was her own business. He had unnerved her, had stripped away years of training and discipline and reduced her to the quivering semblance of a frightened child. But she was a young woman now, no more a girl. She had to personally respond to that emotional humiliation, or the scars from it would haunt her to her grave, forever paralyzing her along her path to discover her true potential in life.

  R. A. Salvatore

  Girl, Children, Emotional

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• I think we're all wounded, but some of us, when we experience the healing of those wounds, that they scar and scab over.

  LeCrae

  Healing, Thinking, Scabs

  "Lecrae Makes Music Concerned With The Soul". "Morning Edition" with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. May 10, 2015.

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• I have a lot of mental scars from being brought up Catholic and being sent to Catholic school for 13 years!

  Mat McNerney

  School, Years, Catholic

  "Show No Mercy". Interview with Brandon Stosuy, pitchfork.com. July 17, 2009.

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• I think that all of the scars and all of the layers that I've built over the years made me the person that I am today, and I'm pretty happy about that person.

  Nick Carter

  Thinking, Years, Layers

  "Nick Carter Confirms That "of Course" the Backstreet Boys Will Appear on His Tour". Interview with Kelsie Gibson, www.popsugar.com. February 25, 2016.

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• My real interest is traveling the world's tormented places and revealing the scars and the traces on the ground. I am dedicated to the earth.

  Sophie Ristelhueber

  Real, World, Earth

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• Elizabeth is smart, ruthless, and emotionally damaged ... [i]f Elizabeth's brain was a person, it would have scars, tattoos, and be missing one eye.

  Max Barry

  Tattoo, Smart, Eye

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• It's easy for someone to joke about scars if they've never been cut.

  William Shakespeare

  Cutting, Easy, Jokes

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• Scars are your body's way of healing, making that damaged part stronger than it ever was before the pain.

  Elle Casey

  Pain, Healing, Stronger

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• The scars are a way of reminding me that the past is real. They are honorable.

  Patrick Califia

  Real, Past, Way

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• Blair has called Africa 'a scar on our conscience'. It is more. It is the gaping wound of the world's soul.

  Bob Geldof

  Soul, World, Blair

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• Did you know that wasn’t me, the other Max?” I asked. “Yeah.” “When?” “Right away.” “How?” I persisted. “We look identical. She even had identical scars and scratches. She was wearing my clothes. How could you tell us apart?” He turned to me and grinned, making my world brighter. “She offered to cook breakfast.

  James Patterson

  Clothes, Scratches, Max

  James Patterson (2006). “School's Out--Forever: A Maximum Ride Novel”, p.142, Hachette UK

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• I have a scar on my right arm from my ex-husband. He was cooking and he had a hot pot and he turned around and went right into my arm.

  Nadine Velazquez

  Husband, Cooking, Hot

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