“I’m afraid to love you. I’m afraid that you’ll leave and that I’ll go back to being alone again. Only it will be a hundred times worse because I’ll know what I’m missing. …I want to be able to love you more than I fear losing you, and I don’t know how. Teach me… Please teach me. Don’t let me destroy…”— Mia Sheridan, amazon.com
“…Difficult relationships come into our lives for a reason. No one would choose them, certainly. But if we let them, they can teach us how to be flexible with others and more forgiving.”— Joan Bauer, goodreads.com
“The more visible signs of protest are gone, but I think there is a realization that the tactics of the late sixties are not sufficient to meet the challenges of the seventies.”— Coretta Scott King, en.wikiquote.org
“Someone will challenge the dark in you, don’t run away when that happens.”— Kriti. G, kriti-g.tumblr.com
“Why did people manufacture trouble when there was already so much of it in the world?”— Ken Follett, youtube.com
“I guess my life hasn’t always been happy, or easy, or exactly what I wanted. At a certain point, I just have to try not to think too much about certain things, or else they’ll break my heart.”— Jonathan Franzen, amazon.com
“If people are living the same as always, with their bellies full of food, they’ll just go on the same way. If they get hungry and unhappy enough, something happens.”— Paul Bowles, amazon.com
“Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too was a gift.”— Mary Oliver, amazon.com
“Life isn’t meant to exist in a narrow color spectrum of perpetual happiness. That’s a movie. It’s not reality. Experience all your vivid, fiery, watery emotions. Give yourself permission to be full bodied. You’re peeling. Revealing. It’s a messy, magnificent process.”— Kris Carr, kriscarr.com
“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com
“Some pain shouldn’t be wished away so easily. It had to be dealt with even embraced.”— Rick Riordan, amazon.com
“I am grateful for all those dark years, even though in retrospect they seem like a long, bitter prayer that was answered finally.”— Marilynne Robinson, amazon.com
“What are you going to do? Everything, is my guess. It will be a little messy, but embrace the mess. It will be complicated, but rejoice in the complications.”— Nora Ephron, washingtonpost.com
“I’ve learned a huge amount because I’ve been tested and, more importantly, I’ve been trusted.”— pete-townshend, theguardian.com
“I’m still a little bent, a little crooked, but all things considered, I can’t complain.”— Anthony Kiedis, amazon.com