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title: "2 Light Shone Quotes By Scott Heim"
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> [It was a light that shone over our faces, our wounds and scars. It was a light so brilliant and white it could have been beamed from heaven, and Brian and I could have been angels, basking in it. But…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/scott-heim/it-was-a-light-that-shone-over-our-faces-our-wounds-and-scars-it-was/)

[Scott Heim](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/scott-heim/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/355/scott-heim-51570_angel_it-was-a-light-that-shone-over-our-faces_897265.jpg)

> [“A woman gasped. Through the open door I could see a sliver of carolers, some faces peering inside at the scattered tatters of money, some faces turned to the sky and the snow, now beginning to fall. And there, in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/scott-heim/a-woman-gasped-through-the-open-door-i-could-see-a-sliver-of-carolers/)

[Scott Heim](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/scott-heim/)

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## More by Scott Heim

> [“Somewhere, in some shadowy bedroom of a leaf-strewn town, a father bolts the door to a child's room, then steps closer to the bed.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/scott-heim/somewhere-in-some-shadowy-bedroom-of-a-leaf-strewn-town-a-father/)

[Scott Heim](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/scott-heim/)

> [He spoke so slowly, cobwebs could have formed between his words.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/scott-heim/he-spoke-so-slowly-cobwebs-could-have-formed-between-his-words/)

[Scott Heim](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/scott-heim/)

> [It was a light that shone over our faces, our wounds and scars. It was a light so brilliant and white it could have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/scott-heim/it-was-a-light-that-shone-over-our-faces-our-wounds-and-scars-it-was/)

[Scott Heim](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/scott-heim/)

> [“A woman gasped. Through the open door I could see a sliver of carolers, some faces peering inside at the scattered tatters of money,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/scott-heim/a-woman-gasped-through-the-open-door-i-could-see-a-sliver-of-carolers/)

[Scott Heim](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/scott-heim/)

> [The room was darker and smelled of evergreen, as though my mother had been dreaming of trees.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/scott-heim/the-room-was-darker-and-smelled-of-evergreen-as-though-my-mother-had/)

[Scott Heim](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/scott-heim/)

> [I've always been fascinated, obsessed even, with books and TV shows about unsolved murders, cold cases, forensic science, mysteries, and so on. Many times…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/scott-heim/i-ve-always-been-fascinated-obsessed-even-with-books-and-tv-shows/)

[Scott Heim](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/scott-heim/)

> [“I hate this stinking little butt crack of a town!”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/scott-heim/i-hate-this-stinking-little-butt-crack-of-a-town/)

[Scott Heim](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/scott-heim/)

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