“Hope is hugging me, holding me in its arms, wiping away my tears and telling me that today and tomorrow and two days from now I will be just fine and I’m so delirious I actually dare to believe it.”— Tahereh Mafi, amazon.com
“It is hard to stop loving the ocean, even after it has left you gasping.”— Sarah Kay, huffingtonpost.com
“Thank you for loving me when I still tasted of heartache and war.”— Nikita Gill, meanwhilepoetry.tumblr.com
“No one wants to listen to our sad stories unless they are smoothed over with a joke or nice melody. And even then, not always. No one wants to hear a woman talking or writing about pain in a way that suggests that it doesn't end.”— Jessica Valenti, amazon.com
“Nothing has changed. They body still trembles as it trembled before Rome was founded and after, in the twentieth century before and after Christ.”— Wisława Szymborska, mrhoyesibwebsite.com
“You were unsure which pain is worse: the shock of what happened or the ache for what never will.”— Simon Van Booy, amazon.com
“Life just hurts people and hurts people, until finally it hurts them so that they can’t be hurt ever any more. That’s the last and worst thing it does.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“You were given the power to love in order to use it, not matter what pain it may cause you.”— William S. Burroughs, amazon.com
“I am not actually tired, but numb and heavy, and can’t find the right words. All I can say is: Stay with me, don’t leave me.”— Franz Kafka, amazon.com
“You think that time heals and walls hide things, but it isn’t true. When things get that deep inside you, there isn’t anybody can change them.”— Federico García Lorca, amazon.com