Scar Quotes - Page 10

• These scars bear witness but whether to repair or to destruction I no longer know.

  Adrienne Rich

  Bears, Destruction, Witness

  Adrienne Rich (2013). “Diving into the Wreck: Poems 1971-1972”, p.52, W. W. Norton & Company

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• You really need stitches," she tells me."Or you're going to have a scar." I try not to laugh. Stitches aren't going to help. They fix skin, cuts, wounds, heal stuff on the outside. Everything broken with me is on the inside. "I can handle scars, especially one's on the outside.

  Jessica Sorensen

  Cutting, Broken, Laughing

  "The Coincidence of Callie and Kayden". Book by Jessica Sorensen, March 19, 2013.

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• Scars crossed her welded wrists.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Wrists

  Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.129, Macmillan

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• Patch was dressed in the usual: black shirt, black jeans and a thin silver necklace that flashed against his dark complexion. His sleeves were pushed up his forearms, and I could see his muscles working as he punched buttons. He was tall and lean and hard, and I wouldn't have been surprised if under his clothes he bore several scars, souvenirs from street fights and other reckless behavior. Not that I wanted a look under his clothes.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Fighting, Dark, Clothes

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.74, Simon and Schuster

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• Christianity is the only religion whose God bears the scars of evil.

  Os Guinness

  Evil, Bears, Christianity

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• I’m never gonna wait that extra twenty minutes to text you back, and I’m never gonna play hard to get when I know your life has been hard enough already. When we all know everyone’s life has been hard enough already it’s hard to watch the game we make of love, like everyone’s playing checkers with their scars, saying checkmate whenever they get out without a broken heart. Just to be clear I don’t want to get out without a broken heart. I intend to leave this life so shattered there’s gonna have to be a thousand separate heavens for all of my flying parts.

  Andrea Gibson

  Heart, Enough Already, Play Hard

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• We’ve come to kill Zarek of Moesia, and if you get in our way, little girl, we’re going to kill you. (Otto) I’ll be damned. He speaks. Or rather growls. (Jess) But not for long if he doesn’t watch his mouth. For the record, Squire, it would take more man than you to even scratch me. (Syra) I live for a woman who scratches. Just make sure you keep it on the back, baby. I don’t like scars. (Otto)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Girl, Baby, Men

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• "Another name? Oh, certainly. And when the Faceless Men come to kill me, I'll say, 'No, you have the wrong man, I'm a different dwarf with a hideous facial scar.'" Both Lannisters laughed at the absurdity of it all.

  George R. R. Martin

  Men, Dwarves, Names

  "A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 3)". Book by George R. R. Martin, August 8, 2000.

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• The only thing he could do to stay alive was not to allow himself the anguish of that memory. He erased it from his mind, although from time to time in the years that were left to him he would feel it revive, with no warning and for no reason, like the sudden pang of an old scar.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Memories, Years, Mind

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• Mr. Freeman: You are getting better at this, but it's not good enough. This looks like a tree,but it is an average, ordinary, everyday, boring tree. Breathe life into it. Make it bend - trees are flexible, so they don't snap. Scar it, give it a twisted branch - perfect trees don't exist. Nothing is perfect. Flaws are interesting. Be the tree.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Average, Giving, Perfect

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.153, Macmillan

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• I can handle scars, especially ones that are on the outside." I understand his meaning from the depths of my heart.

  Jessica Sorensen

  Heart, Depth, Handle

  Jessica Sorensen (2013). “The Coincidence of Callie and Kayden”, p.8, Hachette UK

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• What you have lost will not be returned to you; it always be lost. You’re left with only your scars to mark the void. All you can choose to do is go on, or not. But if you go on, it’s knowing you carry your scars with you.

  Charles Frazier

  Life, Knowing, Goes On

  Charles Frazier (2007). “Cold Mountain: A Novel”, p.421, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Battle scars from the war of good versus evil have a unique beauty all their own.

  P. C. Cast

  War, Unique, Evil

  P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2010). “Hunted: A House of Night Novel”, p.258, Macmillan

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• By the light," he said, when he had mastered himself. "I think that beats singing a lullaby to a stormdog for simplicity and economy, Maerad. But I wish I had known that you simply had to blow at Hulls to get rid of them. It would have saved me a few scars.

  Alison Croggon

  Blow, Thinking, Light

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• Life's not easy for anyone. Everyone has scars they're afraid to show and we all get slammed headfirst into a proverbial locker from time to time by someone bigger and badder.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Lockers, Easy, Bigger

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2016). “Chronicles of Nick”, p.143, St. Martin's Griffin

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• This does not mean that you are warmongers. On the contrary, the soldier above all other people prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war. But always in our ears ring the ominous words of Plato, that wisest of all philosophers: "Only the dead have seen the end of war.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Plato, War, Mean

  Sylvanus Thayer Award Acceptance Address, delivered 12 May 1962, West Point, NY

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• Is he all scarred now? Magic gets rid of most physical scars, but I like to think I scarred him emotionally.

  Derek Landy

  Thinking, Magic

  Derek Landy (2009). “Playing With Fire (Skulduggery Pleasant, Book 2)”, p.14, HarperCollins UK

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• The scar had not pained Harry for nineteen years. All was well.

  J. K. Rowling

  Years, Nineteen, Wells

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• The Detective was different. Not that he wasn't a good man; Willie had heard enough about him to understand that he was the kind who didn't like to turn away from another's pain, the kind who couldn't put a pillow over his ears to drown out the cries of strangers. Those scars he had were badges of courage, and Willie knew that there were others hidden beneath his clothes, and still more deep inside, right beneath the skin and down to the soul. No, it was just that whatever goodness was there coexisted with rage and grief and loss.

  John Connolly

  Pain, Grief, Loss

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• Through the damp fabric of my coverall, bundled in my blanket, I feel naked. Raw. He sees more than I want, more than I can bear. It’s like standing before him ... while he stares at my scars, pitiless and unmoved.

  Ann Aguirre

  Naked, Fabric, Want

  Ann Aguirre (2008). “Grimspace”, p.145, Penguin

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• He would bear scars because of me, as I carried them for him.

  Ann Aguirre

  Bears

  Ann Aguirre (2009). “Blue Diablo: A Corine Solomon Novel”, p.107, Penguin

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• Once a man has seen a dragon in flight, let him stay home and tend his garden in content, someone had written once, for this wide world has no greater wonder." Tyrion scratched at his scar and tried to recall the author's name.

  George R. R. Martin

  Home, Men, Garden

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Five”, p.180, Bantam

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• Michel. In my dreams, you come and get me. You take me by the hand and you lead me away. This life is too much for me to bear. I look at the key and I long for you and for the past. For the innocent, easy days before the war. I know now my scars will never heal. I hope my son will forgive me. He will never know. No one will ever know.

  Tatiana de Rosnay

  Dream, War, Son

  Tatiana de Rosnay (2007). “Sarah's Key”, p.261, Macmillan

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• I force my eyes upward and look at Mia for the first time. She's still beautiful. Not in an obvious Vanessa LeGrande or Bryn Shraeder kind of way. In a quiet way that's always been devastating to me. Her hair, long and dark, is down now, swimming damply against her bare shoulders, which are still milky white and covered with the constellation of freckles that I used to kiss. The scar on her left shoulder, the one that used to be an angry red weld is silvery pink now. Almost like the latest rage in tattoo accessories. Almost pretty.

  Gayle Forman

  Tattoo, Beautiful, Eye

  Gayle Forman (2009). “If I Stay”, p.135, Penguin

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• As I handed her the bag, the old scars on my wrist throbbed with buried memories.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Memories, Bags, Buried

  Maggie Stiefvater (2009). “Shiver”, p.310, Scholastic Inc.

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