“I tried to tell myself that it could be worse, that the world was not a wish-granting factory, that I was living with cancer not dying of it, that I mustn't let it kill me before it kills me, and then I just started muttering stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid over and over again until the so…”— John Green, Hazel, amazon.com
“To be with him was to hurt him—inevitably. And that's what I'd felt as he reached for me; I'd felt as though I were committing an act of violence against him, because I was.”— John Green, Hazel, amazon.com
“They say death is hardest on the living. It’s tough to actually say goodbye. Sometimes it’s impossible. You never really stop feeling the loss. It’s what makes things so bitter sweet. We leave little bits of ourselves behind, little reminders. A lifetime of memories, photos, trinkets. Things to reme…”— Stacy McKee, Dr. Meredith Grey, Ellen Pompeo, imdb.com
“Pain, you just have to ride it out, hope it goes away on its own, hope the wound that caused it heals. There are no solutions, no easy answers, you just breath deep and wait for it to subside. Most of the time pain can be managed but sometimes the pain gets you where you least expect it. Hits way be…”— Shonda Rhimes, Dr. Meredith Grey, Ellen Pompeo, imdb.com
“Just as clay needs to go through intense heat to become strong, Love can only be perfected in pain.”— Elif Shafak, amazon.com
“Be thankful for every thorn that others might throw at you. It is a sign that you will soon be showered in roses.”— Elif Shafak, amazon.com
“I felt this weird mix of disappointment and anger welling up inside of me. I don't even know what the feeling was, really, just that there was a lot of it.”— John Green, Hazel, amazon.com
“He's detached about your pain, but God knows he takes his own pain more seriously than cancer...There is nothing remotely detached about my father's behavior towards his own pain, in his hemorrhages about anything personal being known about him...It finally dawned on me that my father, for all his p…”— Margaret Salinger, amazon.com
“Women who took vitamin E supplements twice a day during their periods for four consecutive months reported a lower pain intensity than they had experienced previously. They even took fewer over-the-counter meds as a result, and had more energy. Go to your nearest health foods shop and snag a bottle…”— Gina M. Florio, bustle.com
“Getting down and dirty can relieve migraines, cluster headaches, and period pain. The uterus contracts during an orgasm, and afterwards, blood flow increases and your brain is hit with natural chemicals that automatically relieve pain.”— Gina M. Florio, bustle.com
“It takes strength to make your way through grief, to grab hold of life and let it pull you forward.”— Patti Davis, amazon.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
“Because even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you, if you had your mother at your back, you’d be okay. Some deep-rooted part of you would know you were loved. That you deserved to be loved.”— Jojo Moyes, amazon.com
“No one worries about you like your mother, and when she is gone, the world seems unsafe, things that happen unwieldy. You cannot turn to her anymore, and it changes your life forever. There is no one on earth who knew you from the day you were born; who knew why you cried, or when you’d had enough f…”— Adriana Trigiani, amazon.com