“If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.”— Zora Neale Hurston, amazon.com
“I am intrigued by the smile upon your face and the sadness within your eyes.”— Jeremy Aldana, goodreads.com
“And the stars down so close, and sadness and pleasure so close together, really the same thing”— John Steinbeck, amazon.com
“Sometimes we get sad about things and we don’t like to tell other people that we are sad about them. We like to keep it a secret.”— Mark Haddon, amazon.com
“I’ve never been very good at leaving things behind. I tried, but I have always left fragments of myself there too, like seeds awaiting their chance to grow.”— Joanne Harris, amazon.com
“I’m sad; not the kind of sad that fades away next week or next month. The kind of sad that shows up one day ten years ago out of the blue and seems to stick with you. The kind you cannot seem to shake. The kind that no one ever talks about.”— Lynette Simeone, wnq-writers.com
“Don’t fall in love with your sadness. Let it be something you kick out in the morning.”— Emery Allen, wnq-writers.com
“There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, There now, hang on, you’ll get over it. Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.”— Barbara Kingsolver, amazon.com
“Hope is hugging me, holding me in its arms, wiping away my tears and telling me that today and tomorrow and two days from now I will be just fine and I’m so delirious I actually dare to believe it.”— Tahereh Mafi, amazon.com
“Time heals all wounds. And if it doesn’t, you name them something other than wounds and agree to let them stay.”— Emma Forrest, amazon.com
“The problem with being the rock is no one asks if you’re starting to crumble.”— Ellen Hopkins, tumblr.com
“Why is it so hard to articulate love yet so easy to express disappointment?”— Kaui Hart Hemmings, amazon.com