“You have your wonderful memories," people said later, as if memories were solace. Memories are not. Memories are by definition of times past, things gone. Memories are the Westlake uniforms in the closet, the faded and cracked photographs, the invitations to the weddings of the people who are no lon…”— Joan Didion, amazon.com
“Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.”— Joan Didion, amazon.com
“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
“I know why we try to keep the dead alive: we try to keep them alive in order to keep them with us. I also know that if we are to live ourselves there comes a point at which we must relinquish the dead, let them go, keep them dead.”— Joan Didion, amazon.com
“For so long I thought that being over someone meant you didn't love them anymore. But with you, I'm not sure that's ever going to be true. I may not love you the way I used to, but I think part of me will always care for you. I'll always want you to be happy even if it makes me sad in the process. I…”— Unknown, facebook.com
“Where are you now? What have you found? Where is your heart, when I'm not around? Where are you now, you gotta let me know? Oh baby, so I can let you go.”— Britney Spears, play.spotify.com
“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson, amazon.com
“The little voice that's telling you the story of your life, has to let go of the old chapters to genuinely write new ones.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“You often do not know what's best for your life. Predicting your future does not make it more guaranteed to happy. It just closes you off. It gets you attached to an idea that you only want to be reality because you're attached to it.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“What would be too good to believe if someone were to sit down and tell you what's coming next in your life?”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“You're not upset about what you lost - you're upset about what you never really had the chance to have in the first place.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“Sometimes you have to walk away from people, not because you don't care, but because they don't.”— life fact, twitter.com
“'Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?’ ‘That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,’ said the Cat. ‘I don’t much care where–’ said Alice. ‘Then it doesn’t matter which way you go,’ said the Cat. ‘–so long as I get SOMEWHERE,’ Alice added as an explanation. ‘Oh, you…”— Lewis Carroll, amazon.com
“It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”— Lewis Carroll, amazon.com
“Say goodbye to all the words people told you about yourself, the ones that made you love yourself a little less. Think of how little these people know about you and your story or why you are the way you are. Think of how some people like to belittle others to feel good about themselves, and while yo…”— Rania Naim, thoughtcatalog.com
“What would it take to forget who's blamed? I'm tired of crying at the sound of your name. Why don't we turn this around?”— Leona Lewis, youtube.com
“Forgive me but I need to be loved too. Forgive me but I cant wait around for you. Forgive me if I found a man who understands just what I need”— Leona Lewis, youtube.com