Quotes from book

The Scar

“In time, in time they tell me, I'll not feel so bad. I don't want time to heal me. There's a reason I'm like this.
I want time to set me ugly and knotted with loss of you, marking me. I won't smooth you away.
I can't say goodbye.”

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

“Everything has changed. I cannot be used anymore. Those days are over. I know too much. What I do now, I do for me.”

“Scars are not injuries, Tanner Sack. A scar is a healing. After injury, a scar is what makes you whole.”

“Neither dust nor light stirred. It was as if time had been bled dry and given up.”

“She felt so alien, bowed under culture shock as crippling as migraine.”

“I’m not waiting to die, I don’t believe I’ll die, I am waiting for something else.
To arrive. To understand. To be at my destination.”

“Tearfly looked at Bellis curiously, bewildered by her ignorance. She did not care. What was important to her was where she was fleeing from, not where she was, or where she was going.”

“We say what happens now. We’re taking control. We’re turning around; we’re heading home. Your orders to proceed…are in-fucking-validated.”