“Some mornings still feel like the night before. I’m just waiting for the days I don’t miss you anymore.”— Anonymous, rippedpapers.wordpress.com
“I wanna write ‘I miss you’ on a rock and throw at your face so you know how much it hurts to miss you.”— Anonymous, pinterest.com
“All I wanted was to crush him with my words. As if my words had the power to remove my pain and make us even. I was wrong. My words bounced back and cut my wound deeper. Pain is not healed with anger. The wound only closes when forgiveness shows its face.”— Mirtha Michelle Castro, amazon.com
“My pain is constant and sharp and I do not hope for a better world for anyone, in fact I want my pain to be inflicted on others. I want no one to escape, but even after admitting this there is no catharsis, my punishment continues to elude me and I gain no deeper knowledge of myself; no new knowledg…”— Bret Easton Ellis, amazon.com
“I felt a queasy mixture of relief and horror: when you finally stop an itch and realize it’s because you’ve ripped a hole in your skin.”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.com
“My pain is constant and sharp and I do not hope for a better world for anyone. In fact, I want my pain to be inflicted on others. I want no one to escape.”— Bret Eason Ellis, amazon.com
“The mad sometimes drilled holes in their own heads to let the demons out. To relieve the pressure of thoughts they could no longer bear. Jude understood the impulse. Each beat of his heart was a fresh and staggering blow felt in the nerves behind his eyes and in his temples. Punishing evidence of li…”— Joe Hill, amazon.com
“I lay in bed and thought about how easy it was to hurt a person. It didn't have to be physical. All you had to do was take a good hard kick at something they cared about.”— Jack Ketchum, amazon.com
“We each die countless little deaths on our way to the last. We die out of shame as humiliation. We perish from despair. And, of course, we die for love.”— Clive Barker, amazon.com
“If you were to rush into this room right now and announce that you had struck a deal - with God, Allah, Buddha, Christ, Krishna, Bill Gates, whomever - in which the ten years since my diagnosis could be magically taken away, traded in for ten more years as the person I was before - I would, without…”— Michael J Fox, amazon.com
“After all that I'd been through, after all that I'd learned and all that I'd been given, I was going to do what I had been doing every day for the last few years now: just show up and do the best that I could do with whatever lay in front of me.”— Michael J Fox, amazon.com
“You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you.”— John Green, amazon.com
“Sometimes it takes a heartbreak to shake us awake & help us see we are worth so much more than we're settling for.”— Mandy Hale, amazon.com
“And anytime you feel the pain, hey Jude, refrain. Don't carry the world upon your shoulders. For well you know that it's a fool who plays it cool by making his world a little colder.”— The Beatles, amazon.com
“If we can forgive what’s been done to us... If we can forgive what we’ve done to others... If we can leave all of our stories behind. Our being villains or victims. Only then can we maybe rescue the world.”— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com
“What makes earth feel like hell is our expectation that it should feel like heaven.”— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com