Janet Fitch Quotes

I don't want to die without scars.

I got scars on my face that tell some kind of story. I'm looking in the mirror, and I got one scar that's really two scars - half from a baseball bat and half from playing football in college. I'll tell you, though, after a while, your face gets so wrinkled up you can hardly see them.

like any Irish mother, I am scar tissue to the bone.

He said you couldn't pretend the terrible things in life didn't happen. You can't clean it up. You keep all the refuse and the scars. It's how you learn. And try to make improvements.

Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

My advice would be not to write until after 35. You need some experience, and for life to knock you about a bit. Growing up is so hard you probably won't have much emotion to spare anyway.

Things happen to everybody in the course of a lifetime. Relationships end, people die, tragedy befalls everyone. So everyone has this wealth of experience, and the older you are the more you have to draw on.

I didn't lead a very wise life, myself, but it was a full one and a grown-up one. You come of age very quickly through shipwreck and disaster.

My entire youth was spent with an incredibly ill parent... I don't think you can grow up that way and not be marked by that experience.

Wounds turn into scars and scars make you tough.

I probably wouldn't be a songwriter if I didn't grow up the way I did. It was difficult and it was at times very scary to grow up in a household so unsettled and at times very violent. But, it also, I guess it earned me a sort of wisdom at a young age that's served me well.

Because nobody goes through life without a scar.

People who come up through life or literature the hard way must inevitably carry their scars with them into composition.

I am a big believer in life in this fact: Scars are a very beautiful thing.

I've had more life experiences than most people that are older than me.

I have lived long enough to be battered by the realities of life, and not too long to be downed by them.

Half of us is easy, the other half is hard. Even though we do our best, we end up being scarred.

We were going to leave a mark on the world but instead the world left marks on us.

With, or despite our scars, we stay alive.

Life will hit you hard in the face, wait for you to get back up just so it can kick you in the stomach. But getting the wind knocked out of you is the only way to remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air.

Don’t worry about me handling the pain," I say. "I’ve had a lot of practice.

I shake my head, but I can’t change this. I can only bear the scars, as I have always done, as I ever do.

Scars remind me of just how far that I've come.

If you listen long enough you can hear my skin grow tough love is painful to the touch must be made of stronger stuff.

What doesn't kill you is gonna leave a scar.