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

“… Time does not heal,
It makes a half-stitched scar
That can be broken and again you feel
Grief as total as in its first hour.
-Elizabeth Jennings”

“In a perverse way, I was glad for the stitches, glad it would show, that there would be scars. What was the point in just being hurt on the inside? It should bloody well show.”

“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.”

“I’ll put it out there: I am scarred by the nostalgic indicipherability of my own desires; I an engulfed by the intimidating unknown, pushed through darkness and dragged down by the irretrievable past sweetness of my memories.”

“The music was like the memory of joys that are past, pleasant and mournful to the soul.”

“Civilization is a scar tissue from a past of violence and destruction.”

“I was of the opinion that the past is past, and like all that is not now it should remain buried along the side of our memories.”

“Separation

Your absence has gone through me
Like thread through a needle.
Everything I do is stitched with its color.”

“Funny how internal scars never healed. They were the souvenirs of the past.”