For a moment we're both silent, staring. I wonder if either of us really sees the other clearly anymore or if we're stuck looking at the frozen images of who we used to be. —Emily Henry in The Love That Split the World More about this quote Tags: silence past looking Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Ultimately love is everything. —M. Scott Peck More about this quote Tags: love Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Time healed, they said, but it wasn't true, or not completely. The first raw wound of loss had closed and silvered over, yes, but the scar it had left would never heal. It would always be there, aching and tender. —Ruth Ware in The Death of Mrs. Westaway More about this quote Tags: time pain loss healing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Grief is an unfillable hole in your body. It should be weightless, but it's heavy. Should be cold, but it burns. Should, over time, close up, but instead it deepens. —Emily Henry in A Million Junes More about this quote Tags: grief loss body Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I'd tried so hard to make a perfect, untouchable life for myself. But trouble finds you. Tragedy finds you. And we keep trying anyway. We hope for the best. —Katherine Center in The Lost Husband More about this quote Tags: hope trouble tragedy trying Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Friendship leads to human connection, which feeds your soul. More than kale or spinning or fifteen-minute naps under your desk, conscious communication with your clutch friends is the best form of self-care. —Karen Kilgariff in Stay Sexy & Don't Get Murdered More about this quote Tags: friendship soul communication connection Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Anything was possible. Everything was uncertain. But I knew one thing for sure: I'd bounced back before, and I would do it again and again and again. Because that's the only choice there is. And as many things as I still had to lose, I had just as many more left to find. —Katherine Center in The Lost Husband More about this quote Tags: certainty loss possibility recovery Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I was mortified by the prospect of becoming hopelessly trapped in someone else's story. —Lionel Shriver in We Need to Talk About Kevin More about this quote Tags: hope becoming mortified Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It's strange that I could have laughed so hard under those circumstances, during that very dark moment in my life. But I've decided sorrow can make things funnier. Endure enough hardship, and you start really needing a good laugh. —Katherine Center in How to Walk Away More about this quote Tags: laughter sorrow loss funny Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered. —Tom Stoppard More about this quote Tags: memory progress smell burning bridges Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Because life is like that, isn't it? If you thought of all the tiny things that divert your path one way or another, some good, some bad, you'd never do anything ever again. And some people don't. Some people go through life not really deciding to do much, not wanting to, always too fearful of the consequences to try something new. Of course, that in itself is also a decision. —Jenny Colgan in The Bookshop on the Corner More about this quote Tags: life good consequences deciding Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Don't you find it odd that when you're a kid, everyone, all the world, encourages you to follow your dreams. But when you're older, somehow they act offended if you even try. —Ethan Hawke in The Hottest State More about this quote Tags: optimism age dreams courage dreaming Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You see, for me, memories are difficult. Very often, they hurt. A curious thing about grief is the way it takes your entire life, all those foundational years that made you who you are, and makes them so painful to look back upon because of the absence there, that suddenly they're inaccessible. —Casey McQuiston in White & Royal Blue More about this quote Tags: pain grief absence memories Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When you don't set up something to look forward to, the little things frequently get to you. —Daniel Chidiac in Who Says You Can't? YOU DO More about this quote Tags: optimism future frustration Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years. —Oscar Wilde More about this quote Tags: society age women thirty-five Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email