“Sometimes, keeping your distance is the best thing you can do for your healing heart.”— Holly Riordan, thoughtcatalog.com
“You’ve done nothing wrong. I miss my friends. I miss my family. No one knows except for one or two people who have seen us that we are seeing each other again.”— Jacqueline Kirkpatrick, thoughtcatalog.com
“While many crystal lovers are quite happily on board with the idea that the stones have magical properties, rationalist fans might point towards studies on the placebo effect and the discovery (by Marie Curie’s husband Pierre) of piezoelectric crystals, which generate electricity under pressure, as…”— LILY SILVERTON, vogue.co.uk
“I'm sleeping all these demons away But your ghost, the ghost of you It keeps me awake”— Ella Henderson, open.spotify.com
“I just don’t for a second, in any possible universe, believe there is an all-knowing creature who is going to scoff at me in the afterlife.”— Chrissy Stockton, thoughtcatalog.com
“What does it mean to grieve someone who is alive, but who walks, talks, thinks, acts and looks different from before?”— Megan Horst, nytimes.com
“Lean way the fuck into who you already are. It’s the perfect, healing mantra for a self-improvement and comparison-obsessed culture. What if you already are your best self? What if the only thing standing between you and a more comfortable existence was accepting that?”— Haley Nahman, manrepeller.com
“In truth I doubt I’ve been ready for anything in my life. Especially for things to end, which I have been thinking about a great deal lately.”— Brandy Jensen, theoutline.com
“To hold the truth within me that some things are so sad and wrong and unanswerable that the question must simply stand alone like a spear in the mud.”— Cheryl Strayed, therumpus.net
“Poetry is as intimate as it is non-remunerative, a tiny part of the small word of books where writers lay themselves bare and mine the darkest corners of their lives for art.”— Kat Rosenfield, vulture.com
“Now go and wash the blood off your face.”— Christopher Hampton, Sister Drummond, Gina McKee, imdb.com
“If every mountain overlooked a parallel scene, if every flower bloomed in uninspired ways, the Earth would not steal us of our breath. Use this as a lesson. Your eyes, your hands, your marvelous smile – those are all your unique contribution to the matchless beauty of nature. You are a stunning rari…”— Bianca Sparacino, shopcatalog.com
“I would do anything to be able to wrap my arms around you and hug every stitching of your pain away. You just told me you don’t know if you're supposed to be here. Goodness, it was like a knife itched those words on my chest. It left scars that forced me to put one finger in front of the other and w…”— Jacqueline Whitney, instagram.com
“It’s the oldest story in the world. One day you’re 17 and planning for someday. And then quietly and without you ever really noticing, someday is today. And then someday is yesterday. And this is your life. Albert Camus once wrote, 'Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.'…”— Mark Schwahn, Nathan Scott, James Lafferty, imdb.com
“When I stopped convincing myself that I was alone, I realized that I was surrounded — by human beings who just wanted to connect, and that was beautiful. That was when my healing began, that was when I started to realize that we need each other more than we will every truly comprehend.”— Bianca Sparacino, shopcatalog.com