Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
For I need this scar over my heart to remind me. Crazy as it sounds, if I can bear the wound on my body, it lessens what I must carry on my soul. How he knew that about me, I cannot fathom.
Ann Aguirre
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Ann Aguirre
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: August 27
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
the United States of America
Ellen Connor
Ava Gray
Body
Sounds
Soul
Bear
Need
Carry
Lessens
Must
Bears
Fathom
Needs
Crazy
Wound
Heart
Knew
Scar
Sound
Remind
Cannot
Wounds
More quotes by Ann Aguirre
There were different kinds of strength. I knew that now. It didn't always come from a knife or a willingness to fight. Sometimes it came from endurance, where the well ran deep and quiet. Sometimes it came from compassion and forgiveness.
Ann Aguirre
Men always want to be remembered whereas women realize that requires being dead.
Ann Aguirre
I couldn't help what I'd done before I learned it was wrong. I could only do better in the future.
Ann Aguirre
Then in the interest of full honesty, I really wish you'd kiss me right now.
Ann Aguirre
I’d never known it was possible to love as he did— with complete devotion yet devoid of promises.
Ann Aguirre
Sometimes the past needed to stay buried it was the only way you could move on. And sometimes you had to dig it up, because that too was the only way.
Ann Aguirre
You don’t know what it’s like to be alone until you’ve had someone inside your head.
Ann Aguirre
It's only a sure defeat when you stop trying.
Ann Aguirre
He went in, lean and deadly, and ended the creature with a lightning-fast spike of his blade. It shrieked, likely altering the rest. The death call carried like a mournful song.
Ann Aguirre
They say funerals are not for the dead but for the living. Those rites are what permit you to move on, so if you don't deal with the remains, you can never deal with the memories. That might be true we may have walked in their dust down on Venice Minor, but it's not the same as a proper good-bye.
Ann Aguirre
He's earned a lifetime of peace and happiness, but some people never get what they deserve. That's why there are saints in gutters and sadists in palaces.
Ann Aguirre
Love can make us do dreadful things.
Ann Aguirre
Because it takes more courage to heal the world's hurts than to inflict them.
Ann Aguirre
I never belonged anywhere until I met you.
Ann Aguirre
He would bear scars because of me, as I carried them for him.
Ann Aguirre
Yet sometimes being a friend meant letting people do things that hurt, like putting distance between you, just because it made them happy.
Ann Aguirre
A huntress never stabbed anything she didn't want to.
Ann Aguirre
If so, I couldn't imagine how the opposite gender managed to get out of bed in the morning. They might be lovely to look at, but clear thinking wasn't their strong point.
Ann Aguirre
Sometimes it felt as if all happiness came at a price. You could never, ever, have perfection. Life gave you beauty so you could bear the pain.
Ann Aguirre
His face held a certain impassivity you see it in all waiters and valets. They might want to jam a knife through your left eye socket, but you'd never know it from their expression. Working retail, I've acquired a similar look myself.
Ann Aguirre