“Don’t depend too much on anyone in this world because even your own shadow leaves you when you are in darkness.”— Ibn Taymiyyah, goodreads.com
“Have no fear, you will find your way. It’s in your bones. It’s in your soul.”— Mark Z. Danielewski, goodreads.com
“See, we were never about butterflies. We’ve always been about burning stars. All about us is unearthly and radiant.”— Anna Akhmatova, amazon.com
“Traumatic experiences are broken bones of the soul. If you engage in the process of recovery, you get stronger. If you don’t, the bones remain porous, with permanent holes inside, and you are considerably weaker.”— Ellen McGrath, psychologytoday.com
“If you let hope inside, it takes you over. It feeds on your insides and uses your bones to climb and grow. Eventually it becomes the thing that is your bones, that holds you together. Holds you up until you don’t know how to live without it anymore. To pull it out of you would kill you entirely.”— Ally Condie, amazon.com
“I want to be like water. I want to slip through fingers, but hold up a ship.”— Michelle Williams, elle.com
“Becoming fearless isn’t the point. That’s impossible. It’s learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it.”— Veronica Roth, amazon.com
“It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.”— Suzanne Collins, amazon.com
“I don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”— Oscar Wilde, amazon.com
“It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.”— J.R.R. Tolkien, goodreads.com
“There were different kinds of strength. I knew that now. It didn’t always come from a knife or a willingness to fight. Sometimes it came from endurance, where the well ran deep and quiet. Sometimes it came from compassion and forgiveness.”— Ann Aguirre, amazon.com
“I don't forgive people because I'm weak, I forgive them because I am strong enough to know people make mistakes.’”— Marilyn Monroe, goodreads.com