{"quotes":[{"text":"I didn't know what kind of creature I was supposed to be until I woke on a hospital cot and was informed I had died. Nobody ever told me what I was. I figured I was broken. But it turns out that my scars were divine signs that I was granted a chance to begin again.","author":"Hannah Ashworth","tags":["again","begin","broken","carew","chance","cot","creature","divine","evolution","gloria","grant","hannah","hospital","monster","morigan","nobody","normal","scars","signs","starbrazen"],"id":1215,"author_id":"Hannah+Ashworth"},{"text":"It just happens that a lot of us have been through too much that is even too less than our age..And what happens is we cannot but remember it and all we think about is how to make now and after better than before.","author":"Temitayo A","tags":["age","be-better","experience","lessons","letting-go","life","love","moving-on","pains","scars","time"],"id":2709,"author_id":"Temitayo+A"},{"text":"She wore her scarsas her best attire.A stunning dressmade of hellfire.","author":"Daniel Saint","tags":["hell","inspirational","pain","poem","poetry","rise-above","scars","strength","strong","stronger","survivor"],"id":3082,"author_id":"Daniel+Saint"},{"text":"I got a body covered in scars, but then who doesn’t? If you don’t have a few scars, you haven’t really lived.","author":"Lexi Blake","tags":["living","scars"],"id":3229,"author_id":"Lexi+Blake"},{"text":"For grief has always been so dear to you that you would make me writhing in pain in the brothel of your imaginations than to be playing with a bunch of balloons in the yard where I should have been.'And may be that's why, you'd rather talk to me about this, than to write a story about me where I could live happily.","author":"Sanhita Baruah","tags":["balloons","brothel","grief","happy","life","scars","story","writer"],"id":5103,"author_id":"Sanhita+Baruah"},{"text":"Injuries heal, but wrinkles are the scars of time.","author":"Bauvard","tags":["funny","healing","humor","injuries","scars","wrinkles"],"id":7974,"author_id":"Bauvard"},{"text":"You really need stitches,' she tells me.'Or you're going to have a scar.' I try not to laugh. Stitches aren't going to help. They fix skin, cuts, wounds, heal stuff on the outside. Everything broken with me is on the inside. 'I can handle scars, especially one's on the outside.","author":"Jessica Sorensen","tags":["emotional-pain","help","kayden","pain","sad","scars","stitches"],"id":8253,"author_id":"Jessica+Sorensen"},{"text":"On the girl's brown legs there were many small white scars. I was thinking, Do those scars cover the whole of you, like the stars and the moons on your dress? I thought that would be pretty too, and I ask you right here please to agree with me that a scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers want us to think. But you and I, we must make an agreement to defy them. We must see all scars as beauty. Okay? This will be our secret. Because take it from me, a scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.","author":"Chris Cleave","tags":["healing","scars"],"id":10686,"author_id":"Chris+Cleave"},{"text":"...There's the suffering from love and the suffering from grief - either pain permanently scars the soul...","author":"John Geddes","tags":["grief","love","scars","soul","suffering"],"id":12174,"author_id":"John+Geddes"},{"text":"The body is an organ of memory, holding traces of all our experiences. The land, too, carries the burden of all its changes. To truly see and understand a landscape is to see its depth as well as its smooth surfaces, its beauty and its scars.","author":"Kristen Iversen","tags":["body","nature","scars"],"id":13681,"author_id":"Kristen+Iversen"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":219,"pages":22,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}