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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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• 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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• 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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• I have walked a stair of swords, I have worn a coat of scars. I have vowed with hollow words, I have lied my way to the stars -Songs of Sapphique

  Catherine Fisher

  Song, Stars, Coats

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• And what about you-the rest of you-did you notice the scars you left behind? No. Probably not. Because most of them can't be seen with the naked eye.

  Jay Asher

  Eye, Naked, Left Behind

  Jay Asher (2011). “Thirteen Reasons Why”, p.68, Penguin

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• The person may have a scar, but it also means they have a story

  Jodi Picoult

  Mean, Stories, May

  Randy Susan Meyers, M. J. Rose, Ronlyn Domingue, Sarah Pekkanen, Jodi Picoult (2013). “Atria Book Club Bites: A Free Sampling of Ten Books Guaranteed to Feed Your Discussion”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• I saw his scars - the visible ones-and saw how breaking him had not made him any less beautiful. If anything, he stood stronger, because he'd survived.

  David Levithan

  Beautiful, Stronger, Saws

  Andrea Cremer, David Levithan (2013). “Invisibility”, p.39, Penguin

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• Scars are medals branded on the flesh, and your enemies will be frightened by them because they are proof of your long experience of battle.

  Paulo Coelho

  Long, Enemy, Battle

  Paulo Coelho (2013). “Manuscript Found in Accra”, p.17, HarperCollins UK

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• The marks humans leave are too often scars. You build a hideous minimall or start a coup or try to become a rock star and you'll think "they'll remember me now," but (a) they don't remember you, and (b) all you leave behind are more scars. Your coup becomes a dictatorship. Your minimall becomes a lesion.

  John Green

  Stars, Thinking, Rocks

  "The Fault in Our Stars". Book by John Green, 2012.

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• I pointed to the wound. "It's missing," I said. My grandmother smiled, and that was all it took for me to stop seeing the scar, and to recognize her again. "Yes," she said. "But see how much of me is left?

  Jodi Picoult

  Grandmother, Missing, Said

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.403, Simon and Schuster

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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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• All right." Shimmering droplets on her eyelashes, stars caught in transition. "But will you replace it with something for me?" "Anything." His body was hers. Brushing her fingers over his lips, she said, "You gave me an eagle. I want to give you one, too." A tender kiss pressed to the scar. "I want us to fly together.

  Nalini Singh

  Stars, Kissing, Eagles

  Nalini Singh (2013). “Heart of Obsidian: A Psy-Changeling Novel”, p.352, Penguin

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• Thank Artemis, it is you! That little scar on your lip--you tried to eat a stapler when you were two!" ... Hedge nodded like he approved of Jason's taste. "Staplers--excellent source of iron.

  Rick Riordan

  Two, Iron, Jason

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• We didn't talk about our scars, the ones you could see and the ones you couldn't.

  Sarah Dessen

  Sarah Dessen (2009). “Along for the Ride”, p.176, Penguin

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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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