Scars Like Wings Quotes

“When a wound’s that deep, it’s the healing that hurts.”
― Erin Stewart, Scars Like Wings

“This is why I don’t need mirrors; I can see my reflection in the eyes of everyone around me. My face always finds me.”
― Erin Stewart, Scars Like Wings

“It's a good reminder. Everyone has scars. Some are just easier to see.”
― Erin Stewart, Scars Like Wings

“Funny how when your secret keeper is gone, all those dreams and conversations vanish, too.”
― Erin Stewart, Scars Like Wings

“There's always beauty in the ashes. Sometimes we just can't see it yet.”
― Erin Stewart, Scars Like Wings

“Our demons may be smaller, but that doesn't make the fight — or the bravery — any less real.”
― Erin Stewart, Scars Like Wings

“If you hold on to the old skin, you’ll never heal.”
― Erin Stewart, Scars Like Wings

“Their stares tell me I’m different, sure, but they reveal an even deeper truth: I’m less.”
― Erin Stewart, Scars Like Wings

“Moving on doesn't mean forgetting. It just means letting go of the hurt.”
― Erin Stewart, Scars Like Wings

“Always healing, never healed.”
― Erin Stewart, Scars Like Wings

“I'm just saying maybe look up once in a while, who knows what you're missing.”
― Erin Stewart, Scars Like Wings

“This week, pay attention to how you talk about yourself. Use words that give you power rather than strip it away.”
― Erin Stewart, Scars Like Wings

“Words have power because we give them meaning. Hate. Love. Hope. Anger.”
― Erin Stewart, Scars Like Wings

“But that was another lifetime, one where spontaneous choreographed dances and happy endings seemed not only plausible but likely.
At some point, you realize life is not a musical.”
― Erin Stewart, Scars Like Wings

“He tells us we're having an assessment quiz and gives a boy in the front row a bunch of papers to hand out to the class. When the boy gets close to me, he hesitates, holding the sheets tentatively, like he's offering a bunny carcass to a rabid dog.”
― Erin Stewart, Scars Like Wings

“It's a good reminder: Everyone has scars. Some are just easier to see.”
― Erin Stewart, Scars Like Wings

“It's hard watching someone you love in pain. You'd take their hurt in a heartbeat, but you can't. It's their pain.”
― Erin Stewart, Scars Like Wings

“But the fire made it ugly, like everything it touches - even the memories went up in smoke.”
― Erin Stewart, Scars Like Wings

“We have to be stronger than the hurt or we miss the whole point.”
― Erin Stewart, Scars Like Wings

“I want someone to know I'm shooting for a star, even if it's a small one.”
― Erin Stewart, Scars Like Wings

“When a wound's that deep, it's the healing that hurts.”
― Erin Stewart, Scars Like Wings

“It's just so strange having your child's birthday without your child. Like this day should somehow not exist anymore. But here it is, the annual reminder of the day I became her mother.”
― Erin Stewart, Scars Like Wings

“I used to think of my skin as one continuous unit, but mine is more like Sara's bedspread beneath me-- a morbid quilt stitched together. Some pieces are original, some are scarred over, and some are grafted in from other parts of my body after the doctors played epidermal musical chairs.”
― Erin Stewart, Scars Like Wings

“Cora works the lotion into all my cracks and crevices as the familiar medical/old-lady smell of the oily cream fills the room. My beige compression garments slump like snakeskin on my desk. After a year, they seem more me than the purply-pink swirling scars of my actual body.”
― Erin Stewart, Scars Like Wings

“Cora's eyes flick from the bagstravaganza to me, her eyebrows pushed together with the same look she gets doing the Sunday crossword. Like if she can just focus hard enough, she can find the solution.
But for all Cora's efforts, I'm one puzzle she can't fix.”
― Erin Stewart, Scars Like Wings