“I closed the box and put it in a closet. There is no real way to deal with everything we lose.”— Joan Didion, amazon.com
“There are no happy endings, endings are the saddest part, so just give me a happy middle, and a very happy start.”— Shel Silverstein, amazon.com
“Think of what you gave and what you lost It ain't no better than broken hearts”— James Davis, play.spotify.com
“Sometimes you’re going to have to let one person go a thousand different times, a thousand different ways, and there’s nothing pathetic or abnormal about that. You are human.”— Heidi Priebe, thoughtcatalog.com
“It is not human nature to let go. We are, at our core, territorial creatures. We fight to hold onto what we love. Giving up isn’t in any way instinctual.”— Heidi Priebe, thoughtcatalog.com
“I’d finally come to understand what it had been: a yearning for a way out, when actually what I had wanted was a way in. I was there now. Or close.”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com
“How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on, when in your heart, you begin to understand, there is no going back? There are some things that time cannot mend. Some hurts that go too deep… that have taken hold.”— J. R. R. Tolkein, Frodo, amazon.com
“When I was alive, I used to travel. When I died, Amit used to tell his friends that I was a pilot. It's a joke because you don't know where I am, just that I'm not coming back.”— Yena Sharma Purmasir, amazon.com
“Sadness does not last forever when we walk in the direction of that which we always desired.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“My heart might be bruised, but it will recover and become capable of seeing beauty of life once more. It's happened before, it will happen again, I'm sure.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“Human beings can withstand a week without water, two weeks without food, many years of homelessness, but not loneliness. It is the worst of all tortures, the worst of all sufferings.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way possible.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“How a woman can once again become violently desirable after you have broken up remains a mystery. Some, perhaps, have the same sense of retrospective admiration of their own bodies at the moment of leaving them.”— Jean Baudrillard, amazon.com
“These are the dreams we should be having. I shouldn’t have to clean them up like this.”— Richard Siken, amazon.com
“What if I told you that I know you think of me every time you are with her? What if I told you I know that you miss me late at night when she’s next you?”— Rania Naim, thoughtcatalog.com
“Things are sweeter when they’re lost. I know — because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot. And when I got it it turned to dust in my hands.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“The French called this time of day “l’heure bleue.” To the English it was “the gloaming.” The very word “gloaming” reverberates, echoes—the gloaming, the glimmer, the glitter, the glisten, the glamour—carrying in its consonants the images of houses shuttering, gardens darkening, grass-lined rivers s…”— Joan Didion, amazon.com