“I watched him go, a tower of lean muscle and scar tissue camouflaging more secrets than I’d realized.”
“Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.”
“Forensics had taught her that scars left tissue much tougher than skin.”
“Scar tissue, she'd once read, was the strongest of all tissues. Maybe Soren's heart was so strong because it was so scarred.”
“The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.”
“It took years after I’d graduated from Amherst to realize that people were actually far more complicated and interesting than books, that almost everyone else suffered the same secret fears and inadequacies as I, and that feeling alone and inferior was actually the great valent bond between us all. I wish I’d been smart enough to understand that when I was an adolescent.”