Scar Quotes - Page 9

• Why not wear a scar of Motherhood? Better than a tattoo or a mark of Honor. Let the world know what you've achieved.

  Richelle Mead

  Tattoo, Motherhood, Honor

  Richelle Mead (2011). “Shadow Heir”, p.65, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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• People will say it's sad that she leaves a lesser scar, that fewer remember her, that she was loved deeply but not widely. But it's not sad, Van Houten. It's triumphant. It's heroic. Isn't that the real heroism? Like the doctors say: First, do no harm.

  John Green

  Real, Doctors, People

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.177, Penguin

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• We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its never so little scar. ...Nothing we ever do is, in strict scientific literalness, wiped out.

  William James

  Character, Fate, Evil

  "The Principles of Psychology". Book by William James, 1890.

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• What you call flaws are really just scars and wounds accumulated over a lifetime.

  Deepak Chopra

  Relationship, Flaws, Lifetime

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• That’s an unfortunate place for a birthmark,” I said, more than a little unnerved that it was so similarly positioned to my own scar. Patch casually but noticeably slid his sleeve down over his wrist. “You’d prefer it someplace more private?” “I wouldn’t prefer it anywhere.” I wasn’t sure how this sounded and tried again. “I wouldn’t care if you didn’t have it at all.” I tried a third time. “I don’t care about your birthmark, period.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Care, Littles, Patches

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• When I putt, my emotions collide like tectonic plates. It's left my memory circuits full of scars that won't heal.

  Mac O'Grady

  Memories, Golf, Emotion

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• Everyone always wants to know how you can tell when it's true love, and the answer is this: when the pain doesn't fade and the scars don't heal, and it's too damned late.

  Jonathan Tropper

  True Love, Pain, Answers

  "The Book of Joe". Book by Jonathan Tropper, 2005.

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• It's a funny thing, character, the way it brands people as they age, rising from within to leave its scar.

  Kate Morton

  Character, Funny Things, People

  Kate Morton (2011). “The Distant Hours: A Novel”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

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• Wisdom can see the red, the rose, the stained and sculptured curve of grey, the charcoal scars of fire, and see around that living tower of tree the hermit tatters of old bark split down and strip to end the season; and can be quiet and not look for reasons past the edge of reason.

  Judith Wright

  Wisdom, Past, Fire

  Judith Wright (1992). “A human pattern: selected poems”, Carcanet Press Ltd.

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• My scars were reflecting the mist in your headlights I looked like a neon zebra, shaking rain off her stripes

  Fiona Apple

  Zebras, Rain, Stripes

  Song: Anything We Want, Album: The Idler Wheel..., 2012

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• When we learn from experience, the scars of sin can lead us to restoration and a renewed intimacy with God.

  Charles Stanley

  Restoration, Sin, Intimacy

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• I've got so many mountains to climb and goals to conquer. I've got so many scars I want to leave on the planet. I just feel like I'm not there yet. I feel like I am just getting started.

  Nikki Sixx

  Goal, Mountain, Want

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. November 8, 2007.

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• Men have scars, women mysteries.

  George R. R. Martin

  Men, Mystery

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows”, p.2909, Bantam

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• Scars are just a treasure map for pain you've buried too deep to remember.

  Jodi Picoult

  Pain, Maps, Treasure

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “Lone Wolf: A Novel”, p.340, Simon and Schuster

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• He was afraid that the secrets she'd kept would always be here, inside him, an ugly malignant thing lodged near enough to his heart to upset its rhythm, and though it could be removed, cut out, there would always be scars; bits and pieces of it would remain in his blood, making it wrong somehow, so that if he accidentally sliced his skin open, his blood would--for one heartbeat--flow as black as India ink before it remembered that it should be red.

  Kristin Hannah

  Heart, Cutting, Blood

  Kristin Hannah (2013). “Kristin Hannah's Family Matters 4-Book Bundle: Angel Falls, Between Sisters, The Things We Do for Love, Magic Hour”, p.157, Ballantine Books

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• Love can transform us. It can be a healing force or a disaster, a tidal wave, a tornado. It can burn and scar us or heal our scars. It can be the ghost that haunts us, or the best friend who reads our every thought. Love may arrive like an angel of mercy, a fairy with raven wings or a hairy beast that will tear us apart limb from limb, kill and savor us down to the bones.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Healing, Angel, Wings

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• Time doesn't heal scars as most people commonly think. It simply makes them firmer, stiffer. One must accept it and not hope to mend and return to what he or she once was.

  Virginia C. Andrews

  Thinking, People, Return

  V. C. Andrews (1999). “Olivia”, p.205, Simon and Schuster

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• If there is love, smallpox scars are as pretty as dimples. - Japanese Proverb

  Stephen King

  Dimples, Japanese Proverbs, Smallpox

  Stephen King (2016). “11/22/63: A Novel”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• I would not trade any of these features for anybody else’s. I wouldn’t trade the small thin-lipped mouth that makes me resemble my nephew. I wouldn’t even trade the acne scar on my right cheek, because that recurring zit spent more time with me in college than any boy ever did.

  Tina Fey

  Boys, College, Nephew

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• I am past scorching; not easily can’st thou scorch a scar.

  Herman Melville

  Past, Scorching

  Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.456

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• Sorrow spares no one, and scars respect no person.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Sorrow, Persons, Spares

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2016). “Chronicles of Nick”, p.723, St. Martin's Griffin

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• I remember every wand I’ve ever sold, Mr. Potter. Every single wand. It so happens that the phoenix whose tail feather is in your wand, gave another feather — just one other. It is very curious indeed that you should be destined for this wand when its brother — why, its brother gave you that scar.

  J. K. Rowling

  Brother, Phoenix, Tails

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• But you're dead," said Harry. "Oh yes," said Dumbledore matter-of-factly. "Then...I'm dead too?" "Ah," said Dumbledore, smiling still more broadly. "That is the question, isn't it? On the whole, dear boy, I think not.” They looked at each other, the old man still beaming. "Not?" repeated Harry. "Not," said Dumbledore. "But…" Harry raised his hand instinctively toward the lightning scar. It did not seem to be there. "But I should have died—I didn't defend myself! I meant to let him kill me!" "And that," said Dumbledore, "will, I think, have made all the difference.

  J. K. Rowling

  Boys, Men, Thinking

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• It could all be so simple, but you'd rather make it hard, lovin you is like a battle, and we both end up with scars, tell me who i have to be, to get some reciprocity.

  Michael Baisden

  Simple, Battle, Ends

  Michael Baisden (2000). “The Maintenance Man: A Novel”, Touchstone

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• I notice faint scars on her wrists and forearms, thin lines too symmetrical to be accidents.

  Isaac Marion

  Lines, Wrists, Symmetrical

  Isaac Marion (2012). “Warm Bodies: A Novel”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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