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

“Of all the priceless objects left behind, this is what we rescue. These artifacts. Memory cues. Useless souvenirs. Nothing you could auction. The scars left from happiness.”

“without my wounds, who was i? my scars were my face, my past was my life.”

“Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.”

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

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

“"Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear." — frequently attributed to Lennon, but entirely unsourced”

“It's funny how close the past is, sometimes. Sometimes it seems as if you could almost reach out and touch it. Only who really wants to?”

“Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.”

“The Earth with its scarred face is the symbol of the Past; the Air and Heaven, of Futurity.”