Scar Quotes - Page 19

• She cannot chain my soul. Yes, she could hurt me. She'd already done so...I would bleed, or not. Scar, or not. Live, or not. But she could not hurt my soul, not unless I gave it to her.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Hurt, Inspiration, Soul

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• He couldn’t say the words, had spent too long in Silence, but he’d learned other ways to speak. Taking the paperweight she’d knocked off her desk out of his pocket, he put it in her hands. “It’s fixed. As long as you don’t mind more than a few scars.

  Nalini Singh

  Hands, Long, Silence

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• Forensics had taught her that scars left tissue much tougher than skin.

  Alane Ferguson

  Skins, Tissues, Taught

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• The scar will remain, but it is better for a man to lose both arms than his soul; and these hard years, instead of being lost, may be made the most precious of your lives, if they teach you to rule yourselves.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Men, Years, Soul

  Louisa May Alcott (2015). “Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys & A Sequel - Jo's Boys and How They Turned Out (Children’s Classics Series – Illustrated Edition)”, p.414, e-artnow

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• Contrary to what we may have been taught to think, unnecessary and unchosen suffering wounds us but need not scar us for life. It does mark us. What we allow the mark of our suffering to become is in our own hands.

  Bell Hooks

  Thinking, Hands, Suffering

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• Your truth may not look like mine, but that is not what matters. What matters is this: You can look at a scar and see hurt, or you can look at a scar and see healing.

  Sheri Reynolds

  Hurt, Healing, What Matters

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• The hook-nosed teacher looked past Quirrell’s turban straight into Harry’s eyes — and a sharp, hot pain shot across the scar on Harry’s forehead.

  J. K. Rowling

  Teacher, Pain, Eye

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• It's not that I don't suffer, it's that I know the unimportance of suffering. I know that pain is to be fought and thrown aside, not to be accepted as part of one's soul and as a permanent scar across one's view of existence.

  Ayn Rand

  Letting Go, Pain, Views

  Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.907, Penguin

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• Then I heard someone laugh. I wished I didn't know whose laugh it was, but I knew Will's laugh just like I knew he had a small scar right above his left elbow. You couldn't be reluctantly lust-ridden for someone without noticing stuff about them.

  Elizabeth Scott

  Laughing, Lust, Elbows

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• He thought of the jungle, already regrowing around him to cover the scars they had created. He thought of the tiger, killing to eat. Was that evil? And ants? They killed. No, the jungle wasn’t evil. It was indifferent. So, too, was the world. Evil, then, must be the negation of something man had added to the world. Ultimately, it was caring about something that made the world liable to evil. Caring. And then the caring gets torn asunder. Everybody dies, but not everybody cares.

  Karl Marlantes

  Caring, Men, Evil

  Karl Marlantes (2010). “Matterhorn”, p.264, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Time may heal all wounds, but it does not erase the scars.

  Jane Yolen

  May, Doe, Time Heals

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• It occurred to me that there was a story behind the scar -- maybe not as dramatic as the story of my wrists, but a story nonetheless -- and the fact that everyone had a story behind some mark on their inside or outside suddenly exhausted me, the gravity of all those untold pasts.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Past, Stories, Facts

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Forever”, p.187, Scholastic Inc.

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• He chose the boy he thought most likely to be a danger to him," said Dumbledore. And notice this, Harry. He chose, not the pureblood (which, according to his creed, is the only kind of wizard worth being or knowing), but the half-blood, like himself. He saw himself in you before he had ever seen you, and in marking you with that scar, he did not kill you, as he intended, but gave you powers, and a future, which have fitted you to escape him not once, but four times so far — something that neither your parents, nor Neville’s parents, ever achieved.

  J. K. Rowling

  Boys, Blood, Knowing

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• I shake my head, but I can’t change this. I can only bear the scars, as I have always done, as I ever do.

  Ann Aguirre

  Bears, Done, Shakes

  Ann Aguirre (2011). “Aftermath”, p.25, Penguin

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• For I need this scar over my heart to remind me. Crazy as it sounds, if I can bear the wound on my body, it lessens what I must carry on my soul. How he knew that about me, I cannot fathom.

  Ann Aguirre

  Crazy, Heart, Soul

  Ann Aguirre (2011). “Aftermath”, p.97, Penguin

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• You thought I would not weesh to marry him? Or per'aps you hoped?" said Fleur, her nostrils flaring. "What do I care how he looks? I am good-looking enough for both of us, I theenk! All these scars show is zat my husband is brave! And I shall do zat!" she added fiercely, pushing Mrs. Weasley aside and snatching the ointment from her.

  J. K. Rowling

  Husband, Brave, Looks

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• You know, the mind is a remarkable thing. Just because you can't see the wound doesn't mean it isn't hurting. It scars all the time, but it heals.

  Jodi Picoult

  Hurt, Mean, Mind

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• Be proud of every scar on your heart, each one holds a lifetime’s worth of lessons.

  Wallace Stegner

  Inspirational, Motivation, Heart

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• By God, I shall spend the rest of my life getting my heart back, healing and forgetting every scar you put upon me when I was a child. The first move I ever made, after the cradle, was to crawl for the door, and every move I have made since has been an effort to escape.

  Thomas Wolfe

  Children, Moving, Healing

  Thomas Wolfe, Arlyn Bruccoli, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (2000). “O Lost: A Story of the Buried Life”, p.538, Univ of South Carolina Press

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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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• We need to educate our elite coaches more and have a better approach to teaching the athletes about how to be healthy rather than berate them, humiliate them, use tactics that could scar them for life.

  Dominique Moceanu

  Teaching, Athlete, Healthy

  "Dominique Moceanu Talks Body Image In Gymnastics, Says Coaches Can ‘Scar For Life’". www.huffingtonpost.com. July 19, 2013.

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• Even when the wound is healed the scar remains.

  Publilius Syrus

  Healed, Remains, Wounds

  "The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave". Book by Darius Lyman. Maxim 236, 1856.

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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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• 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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• 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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