“We have the idea that our hearts, once broken, scar over with an indestructible tissue that prevents their ever breaking again in quite the same place...”
“Scar tissue, she'd once read, was the strongest of all tissues. Maybe Soren's heart was so strong because it was so scarred.”
“Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not towisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.”
“A broken bone will never break in the same place again...it heals stronger. Be that bone brother.”
“Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again.”
“We have quite the same ideas. No; I think our ideas are quite different. But he has been most pleasant.”