“We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com
“It's bullshit to think of friendship and romance as being different. They're not. They're just variations of the same love. Variations of the same desire to be close.”— Rachel Cohn, amazon.com
“There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them.”— J.K Rowling, amazon.com
“There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.”— Irving Stone, amazon.com
“The majority of the living weary us or are strangers to us. We truly know and love only the dead. So long as man is alive one does not know what he is or what he will do. We have unwavering confidence only in the dead.”— Maurice Maeterlinck, amazon.com
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen nor even touched, but just felt in the heart.”— Helen Keller, thoughtcatalog.com
“While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.”— Samuel Johnson, thoughtcatalog.com
“My life closed twice before its close; It yet remains to see If Immortality unveil A third event to me, So huge, so hopeless to conceive, As these that twice befell. Parting is all we know of heaven, And all we need of hell.”— Emily Dickinson, thoughtcatalog.com
“There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.”— Washington Irving, thoughtcatalog.com
“I should know enough about loss to realize that you never really stop missing someone-you just learn to live around the huge gaping hole of their absence.”— Alyson Noël, amazon.com
“You will lose someone you can’t live without, and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having…”— Anne Lamott, thoughtcatalog.com
“I don’t think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that remains.”— Anne Frank, thoughtcatalog.com
“The risk of love is loss, and the price of loss is grief – But the pain of grief is only a shadow when compared with the pain of never risking love.”— Hilary Stanton Zunin, thoughtcatalog.com
“What we have once enjoyed deeply we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.”— Helen Keller, thoughtcatalog.com
“A child embarrassed by his mother,’ she said, ‘is just a child who hasn’t lived long enough.”— Mitch Albom, amazon.com
“I also believe that parents, if they love you, will hold you up safely, above their swirling waters, and sometimes that means you'll never know what they endured, and you may treat them unkindly, in a way you otherwise wouldn't”— Mitch Albom, amazon.com
“When you look into your mother’s eyes, you know that is the purest love you can find on this earth.”— Mitch Albom, amazon.com