“D'ye ken that the only time I am without pain is in your bed, Sassenach? When I take ye, when I lie in your arms-my wounds are healed, then, my scars forgotten.”
Source: The Fiery Cross
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Diana Gabaldon 158
American author 1952Related quotes
“Even when the wound is healed, the scar remains.”
Maxim 236
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
Variant: Even when there is no law, there is conscience.
Variant: It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.

“Time may heal wounds, but it does not erase the scars.”
Source: Briar Rose (1992), Chapter 12 (p. 72)

“I don't regret the painful times; I bare my scars as if they were medals.”