“But we never want to talk about sadness without leaving a scar. We don't even realize that behind the wound inside the oyster's body is a beautiful pearl.”

“We are born sad and we die sad, but meanwhile we love bodies whose sad beauty is a miracle.”

“There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with.”

“The wounds of the spirit heal and leave no scars.”

“No one has gone through life without acquiring scars and bruises. Some wounds are hidden inside us and only we can feel. They are badges of our day-to-day struggle to learn and survive.”

“… It makes me cry, I want to talk about something I am not sure I can talk about, I want to talk about the inside from the inside, I do not want to leave it
I am so happy in the silky damp dark of the labyrinth and there is no thread”

“It is very sad to me that some people are so intent on leaving their mark on the world that they don't care if that mark is a scar.”

“The defects and faults in the mind are like wounds in the body. After all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind.”

“I wanted to touch him, to tell him that even if everyone left everyone, I would never leave him, he talked and talked, his words fell through him, trying to find the floor to his sadness.”

“All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster’s autobiography.”