“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.”

“This is something you can never erase. It leaves a scar on you.”

“A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.
It is easy to display a wound, the proud scars of combat. It is hard to show a pimple.”

“The damage was permanent; there would always be scars. But even the angriest scars faded over time until it was difficult to see them written on the skin at all, and the only thing that remained was the memory of how painful it had been.”

“Scars are memory. Like sutures. They stitch the past to me.”

“I healed. Not completely. A scar is never the same as good flesh, but it stops the bleeding.”

“I miss him like one might miss a scar, or wooden leg, something disfiguring but characteristic.”

“Scars speak for you. They say you're strong, and you've survived something that might have killed others.”

“Because sometimes that is the only way to remember what is in your bones. You must peel off your skin, and that of your mother, and her mother. Until there is nothing. No scar, no skin, no flesh.
-An-mei”

“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.”