“You will have to learn to adjust with your scars and deal with your mistakes. It is impossible to get rid of the marks. It stains your skin and mixes with your blood. Over time the only things you'll find yourself struggling with, is that they don't deepen enough to dig into your bones. In times, th…”— Unknown, instagram.com
“Start thinking about health rather than size. Remember that a lot of pictures are photoshopped and doctored. Most of these people have scars, stretch marks and spots without an airbrush or flattering filter.”— Jacqueline Hurst, sweatybetty.com
“The scars from mental cruelty can be as deep and long-lasting as wounds from punches or slaps but are often not as obvious. In fact, even among women who have experienced violence from a partner, half or more report that the man’s emotional abuse is what is causing them the greatest harm.”— Lundy Bancroft, amazon.com
“A scar is not always a flaw. Sometimes a scar may be redemption inscribed in the flesh, a memorial to something endured, to something lost.”— Dean Koontz, amazon.com
“The holes in your life are permanent. You have to grow around them, like tree roots around concrete; you mold yourself through the gaps.”— Paula Hawkins, amazon.com
“I felt her so intensely words seemed unfit I needed to paint her grab colors with my hands and throw it at the canvas 'there' I would point 'this is my love for you.''”— Atticus, instagram.com
“I love her because she steals my socks, I love her because when I find her in them they never match, I love her because they are too big and they grey part for the heel sits far too high but she doesn't notice. I love her because she wears them to sleep and one always falls off and she wakes up in t…”— Atticus, instagram.com
“Holding her was never enough I needed to melt her into me to mix our colors like paint to fuse our atoms and make us one— but that as well would never be enough.”— Atticus, instagram.com
“He painted over her scars with every color he could find until she lost them in the setting sun.”— Atticus, instagram.com
“Out of massive suffering emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”— Khalil Gibran, purposefairy.com
“He was right, after all; it didn't leave a scar, though part of me wishes it had. At least I'd have some evidence, some justification of this permanence. Stains are even worse when you're the only one who can see them.”— Gayle Forman, amazon.com
“Other times, I look at my scars and see something else: a girl who was trying to cope with something horrible that she should never have had to live through at all. My scars show pain and suffering, but they also show my will to survive. They're part of my history that'll always be there.”— Cheryl Rainfield, amazon.com
“People have scars in all sorts of unexpected places. Like secret road maps of their personal histories, diagrams of all of their old wounds. Most of our old wounds heal, leaving nothing behind but a scar. But some of them, don’t. Some wounds, we carry with us everywhere… and though the cut is long g…”— Debora Cahn, Dr. Meredith Grey, Ellen Pompeo, imdb.com
“they're scars for a reason, they don't hurt anymore but they're there to remind you of all the things you lived through the moments that almost killed you and the ones that made you who you are. stay strong.”— R.M Drake, rmdrk.bigcartel.com
“Sometimes, your scars have a lot less to do with where you have been and a lot more to do with where you are going.”— R.M Drake, rmdrk.bigcartel.com
“Scars aren’t there to loudly announce, ‘I’ve been through more!’ But rather, they quietly whisper, ‘You survived.”— Marina Miller, thoughtcatalog.com