“You’re gonna be angry. You’re gonna be angry because you cared.”— Daren Colbert, darencolbert.tumblr.com
“Most people carry that pain around inside them their whole lives, until they kill the pain by other means, or until it kills them. But you, my friends, you found another way: a way to use the pain. To burn it as fuel, for light and warmth. You have learned to break the world that has tried to break…”— Lev Grossman, amazon.com
“It’s my experience that people are a lot more sympathetic if they can see you hurting.”— Jennifer Niven, amazon.com
“We are afraid of losing what we have, whether it's our life or our possessions and property. But this fear evaporates when we understand that our life stories and the history of the world were written by the same hand.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“Death! Strange that there should be such a word, and such a thing, and we ever forget it; that one should be living, warm and beautiful, full of hopes, desires and wants, one day, and the next be gone, utterly gone, and forever!”— Harriet Beecher Stowe, amazon.com
“You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.”— Jonathan Safran Foer, amazon.com
“Still, being able to feel pain was good, he thought. It’s when you can’t even feel pain anymore that you’re in real trouble.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“The person you love is rarely worthy of how big your love is. Because no one is worthy of that and maybe no one deserves the burden of it, either. You’ll be let down. You’ll be disappointed and have your trust broken and have a lot of real sucky days. You lose more than you win. You hate the person…”— Dennis Lehane, amazon.com
“One day your heart will take you to your Lover. One day your soul will carry you to the Beloved. Don’t get lost in your pain, know that one day your pain will become your cure.”— Rumi, rumichange.wordpress.com
“If you love deeply, you’re going to get hurt badly. But it’s still worth it.”— C. S. Lewis, amazon.com