Despite your best efforts, people are going to
Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it’s time for them to be hurt.
— Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
26
Mar
26
Mar
You never knew the last time you were
You never knew the last time you were seeing someone. You didn’t know when the last argument happened, or the last time you had sex, or the last time you looked into their eyes and thanked God they were in your life.
After they were gone?
That was all you thought about.
Day and night.
— J.R. Ward, Lover Mine
26
Mar
It?s the same with people who say, ?Whatever
It?s the same with people who say, ?Whatever doesn?t kill you makes you stronger.? Even people who say this must realize that the exact opposite is true. What doesn?t kill you maims you, cripples you, leaves you weak, makes you whiny and full of yourself at the same time. The more pain, the more pompous you get. Whatever doesn?t kill you makes you incredibly annoying.
— Rob Sheffield, Love Is a Mix Tape
26
Mar
If all else perished, and he remained, I
If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.
— Emily Jane Bront? , Wuthering Heights
26
Mar
When You Are Old” WHEN you are old and
When You Are Old”
WHEN you are old and grey and full of sleep,
And nodding by the fire, take down this book,
And slowly read, and dream of the soft look
Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;
How many loved your moments of glad grace,
And loved your beauty with love false or true,
But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing face;
And bending down beside the glowing bars,
Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled
And paced upon the mountains overhead
And hid his face amid a crowd of stars.
— W.B. Yeats
26
Mar
Tears shed for another person are not a
Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.
— Jos? N. Harris, MI VIDA: A Story of Faith, Hope and Love
26
Mar
You?ll get over it? It?s the clich?s that
You?ll get over it? It?s the clich?s that cause the trouble. To lose someone you love is to alter your life for ever. You don?t get over it because ?it is the person you loved. The pain stops, there are new people, but the gap never closes. How could it? The particularness of someone who mattered enough to grieve over is not made anodyne by death. This hole in my heart is in the shape of you and no-one else can fit it. Why would I want them to?
— Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body
26
Mar
We are all the pieces of what we
We are all the pieces of what we remember. We hold in ourselves the hopes and fears of those who love us. As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss.
— Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire
26
Mar
From childhood’s hour I have not been. As
From childhood’s hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone.
— Edgar Allan Poe