“Ceasing to believe caused a permanent scar in the place where one's faith had been, making it impossible to forget.”

“Scars might heal and we might forget about them in time, but they're permanent. Not even Jesus lost his scars.”

“At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.”

“I guess that's where faith comes in, the faith of a child to believe in Santa, the faith of an adult to believe in God, maybe faith is what makes something real? Maybe Rose had believed enough to create her own afterlife, maybe that's the reward of faith...”

“If you want to wait until your scars disappears you'll wait forever...Scars never disappear. Scars might heal and we might forget about them in time, but they are permanent. Not even Jesus lost his scars...”

“The damage was permanent; there would always be scars. But even the angriest scars faded over time until it was difficult to see them written on the skin at all, and the only thing that remained was the memory of how painful it had been.”