#scar

The wound is the place where the Light enters you. ↗

— Rumi

#healing #scars #suffering #broken

Oh, my sweet summer child," Old Nan said quietly, "what do you know of fear? Fear is for the winter, my little lord, when the snows fall a hundred feet deep and the ice wind comes howling out of the north. Fear is for the long night, when the sun hides its face for years at a time, and little children are born and live and die all in darkness while the direwolves grow gaunt and hungry, and the white walkers move through the woods ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#foreboding #scary #children

Well, my dear, take heart. Some day, I will kiss you and you will like it. But not now, so I beg you not to be too impatient. ↗

— Margaret Mitchell

#heart

In a perverse way, I was glad for the stitches, glad it would show, that there would be scars. What was the point in just being hurt on the inside? It should bloody well show. ↗

— Janet Fitch

#white-oleander #hurt

Poor Aubrey: I hope he will get all right. He brought a strangely new personality to English art, and was a master in his way of fantastic grace, and the charm of the unreal. His muse had moods of terrible laughter. Behind his grotesques there seemed to lurk some curious philosophy… ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#oscar-wilde #art

She...can talk brillantly upon any subject provided she knows nothing about it. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#oscar-wilde #insult

Scars are just a treasure map for pain you've buried too deep to remember. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#pain #scar #lonely

America has never quite forgiven Europe for having been discovered somewhat earlier in history than itself. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#oscar-wilde #america

How wonderful to know someone who was bad and dishonorable and a cheat and a liar, when all the world was filled with people who would not lie to save their souls and who would rather starve than do a dishonorable deed! ↗

— Margaret Mitchell

#cheating

I'm a man of simple tastes. I'm always satisfied with the best. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#living #oscar-wilde #lifestyle