Sarah Dessen Quotes

Silk didn't care if it slid over scars or smooth, untouched skin. I'd earned my right to be paranoid.

Mean people are really just sad people. They hurt others because they are hurting. Every person is born beautiful, and much of the ugliness in others was put inside of them by other hurting people.

Scars speak more loudly than the sword that caused them.

We all bear scars,... Mine just happen to be more visible than most.

It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.

I have reason to be shy. I've been hurt plenty.

Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.

Everybody's got scars. It's not so unique.

I have some scars... lots of internal ones. But they're all scabbed over.

Smile with instinct, then lick your wounds in the darkest of dark corners. Trace the scars back to your own fingers and remember them.

Forgiveness is a scalpel that removes emotional scars.

A knife, it felt like a knife, and I'd discovered that despite everything that's happened, I still had an endless untapped potential for getting hurt.

I'm going to give you God's truth, little girl. All men want to do is hurt you. Once you give them your heart, they tear it to shreds." ~Francine Rivers; Redeeming Love

I've been hurt so many times I don't have the balls for it anymore.

Wrinkled, wrinkled little star... hope they never see the scars.

There are accounts that, if we open our hearts to them, will cut us too deeply.

(...the non-conformist, how do you keep from getting scarred?)/i don’t! i got a scar here…and uh i got a scar on my knee…and uh a few scars on my soul.

We're all damaged somehow."-A Great and Terrible Beauty

Scars crossed her welded wrists.

The damage can fester under layers of time and change, and an ignorant, thoughtless remark can easily reopen the wound.

As victims of hurt, we frequently don't bring up what ails us, because so many wounds look absurd in the light of day.

Not even Carol knows firsthand how it feels to be hurt in such a way by someone who's supposed to protect you

When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.

According to Madam Pomfrey, thoughts could leave deeper scars than almost anything else.

I'd rather bleed with cuts of love than live without any scars.