“Oh lord when you are alone and do not want to be, you lie in bed with your own shoulder wrapped around and beneath yourself so that the surges of pain keep you company. This is hurtful but it is so much better than no nerves firing at all. The worst is when there’s no one near to press on you and ma…”— Jenny Holzer, artic.edu
“I made from our ruins, a monument; a reminder to myself that worship does not keep temples from falling apart.”— Emma Bleker, amazon.com
“Yet writing a poem about something painful, she has discovered, can be her way of digesting it. 'One of the things I’ve learned is, if we try and put sadness off, it just waits. And in my experience, running away from sadness doesn’t do anybody any good.'”— Frieda Hughes, theguardian.com
“I have learned that when sadness comes to visit me, all I can do is say “I see you.” I spend some time with it, get up, and say goodbye. I don’t push it away, I own it. And because I own it, I let it go.”— Carolina Zacaria, facebook.com
“Don't be ashamed to weep. Tears are only water, and flowers, trees, and fruit cannot grow without water. But there must be sunlight also. A wounded heart will heal in time, and when it does, the memory and love of our lost ones is sealed inside to comfort us.”— Brian Jacques, amazon.com
“I felt her absence. It was like waking up one day with no teeth in your mouth. You wouldn’t need to run to the mirror to know they were gone.”— James Dashner, amazon.com
“And that's when I know it's over. As soon as you start thinking about the beginning, it's the end.”— Junot Dìaz, amazon.com
“You don't know distance until you've shared your bed with somebody who's falling out of love with you.”— Beau Taplin, twitter.com
“I am a broken bell jar. I am Plath preheating the oven. I am all the things I once feared. Mostly, I am nothing.”— Anonymous, speaking-secrets.tumblr.com
“We are all so afraid. We are all so alone. We all so need from the outside the assurance of our own worthiness to exist.”— David Shields, amazon.com