“I did become sadder, and sadness gets boring after a while, for the sad person and for everyone around them.”— Paula Hawkins, amazon.com
“Believe me, every heart has its secret sorrows, which the world knows not, and oftentimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad.”— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, amazon.com
“There was no more meaningless phrase in all of language than 'Cheer up!' The only way to get someone to cheer up was to help them forget, and saying 'cheer up' had quite the opposite effect, only reminding the person why he or she was depressed in the first place.”— Kōji Suzuki, amazon.com
“It comes over us that we shall never again hear the laughter of our friend, that this garden is forever locked against us. And at that moment begins our true grief.”— Lauren Groff, amazon.com
“Everything I know about my family’s history, I know in fragments. We are the keepers of secrets. We are secrets ourselves. We try to protect each other from the geography of so much sorrow. I don’t know that we succeed.”— Roxane Gay, amazon.com