“stay strong through your pain grow flowers from it you have helped me grow flowers out of mine so bloom beautifully dangerously loudly bloom softly however you need just bloom”— Rupi Kaur, amazon.com
“What is stronger than the human heart which shatters over and over and still lives?”— Rupi Kaur, amazon.com
“be a sad replacement of the woman you let slip. nothing she does will excite you and this will break her.”— Rupi Kaur, amazon.com
“Just because a person isn't talking about something doesn't mean it's not on their mind. Often, in fact, it's why they won't speak of it.”— Sarah Dessen, amazon.com
“Because you can never go from going out to being friends, just like that. It's a lie. It's just something that people say they'll do to take the permanence out of a breakup. And someone always takes it to mean more than it does, and then is hurt even more when, inevitably, said ‘friendly' relationsh…”— Sarah Dessen, amazon.com
“I look at the saddest things in life and laugh at how awful they are, because they are hilarious and it’s all we can do with moments that are painful.”— Amy Schumer, amazon.com
“We can stick anything into the fog and make it look like a ghost but tonight let us not become tragedies. We are not funeral homes with propane tanks in our windows, lookin’ like cemeteries. Cemeteries are just the Earth’s way of not letting go. Let go.”— Buddy Wakefield, youtube.com
“And it felt like being stoned and sticked from the inside, a fluttering and then a sharp pain in his lower rib cage, and then he felt for the first time that a piece of his gut had been wrenched out of him.”— John Green, Colin Singleton, amazon.com
“We cannot protect the young from harm. Pain must and will come.”— Jack Thorne, Albus Dumbledore, amazon.com
“This is how we go on: one day a time, one meal at a time, one pain at a time, one breath at a time.”— Stephen King, amazon.com
“In every life, there is struggle. No one is immune from pain and suffering. But it won’t last. Life moves forward. The circumstances will change. This applies to both the bad feelings and the good. Nothing lasts forever. When you think about this, the only moment you really have is the present, and…”— Khloé Kardashian, amazon.com
“The grief. It came crashing in like a tidal wave. The very thought of it still sends a shiver down my spine: makes me wince a little. The weight of it. Those vacant, anguished expressions, and the way we nestled into each other, softly, and the endless cups of too-strong tea that were made by distra…”— Kathy Brown, thoughtcatalog.com
“He was right, after all; it didn't leave a scar, though part of me wishes it had. At least I'd have some evidence, some justification of this permanence. Stains are even worse when you're the only one who can see them.”— Gayle Forman, amazon.com
“I know that pain is the most important thing in the universes. Greater than survival, greater than love, greater even than the beauty it brings about. For without pain, there can be no pleasure. Without sadness, there can be no happiness. Without misery there can be no beauty. And without these, lif…”— Harlan Ellison, amazon.com
“My heart is ripped open, shredded, leaking blood. I can't let him leave like this. We've been through to much to turn into strangers.”— Marie Lu, amazon.com
“It feels like you can’t breathe, but you actually are breathing. It feels like you’ll never stop crying, but you actually will.”— Liane Moriarty, amazon.com