"Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real."
"Our enemies ... seem always with us. The greater our hatred the more persistent the memory of them so that a truly terrible enemy becomes deathless. So that the man who has done you great injury or injustice makes himself a guest in your house forever. Perhaps only forgiveness can dislodge him."
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Source: Cormac McCarthy (2013). “The Border Trilogy: Picador Classic”, p.861, Pan Macmillan
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