“He scarred her arm...but she did not care because she loved him and she knew that love leaves a wound that leaves a scar.”

“You need to leave, Scar."Yes. She should probably leave. She didn't.”

“She did not believe he could have really gone, because for her, to leave the person you loved was impossible.”

“she was glad she had been scarred. She said that whoever loved her now would love her true self, and not her pretty face.”

“Hate leaves ugly scars, love leaves beautiful ones.”

“At that moment with the dolphins gliding about her, Annie realized that the sea could be dark and cold and unforgiving but could also be full of light and warmth and hope. And was life any different? Yes she had almost died three times-once as a girl, twice as a woman. And those scars would never truly leave her. But a scar shows that a wound as mostly healed, and if something has mostly healed, why did she need to live in fear of it?”