I think anyone who opened their heart enough to love without restraint and subsequently were devastated by loss knows that in that moment you are forever changed; a part of you is no longer whole. Some will never again love with that level of abandon where life is perceived as innocent and the threat of loss seems implausible.

—Donna Lynn Hope

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More quotations from Donna Lynn Hope

I found that I missed him the more he was absent from my life, and the more I missed him, the more I loved him.

—Donna Lynn Hope in Willow

Do we really need a study on why people lie? They lie because it's easy, and cowards are good at "easy." Telling the truth takes moxie, and few have it.

—Donna Lynn Hope

If you have to speculate if someone loves you and wants to be with you, chances are they don't. It's not that complicated. Don't waste moments waiting and wondering. Don't throw away your time dreaming of someone that doesn't want you. No one is that amazing, certainly not the one who would pass you up.

—Donna Lynn Hope

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The most beautiful women I have known had one thing in common apart from beauty: humility. It's a shame that those with less to boast about do it the most.

—Donna Lynn Hope

I don't miss anyone. If I did I would do something about it. Besides, some people come back… in dreams. That's when they're honest.

—Donna Lynn Hope

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I believe good things happen everyday. I believe good things happen even when bad things happen. And I believe on a happy day like today, we can still feel a little sad. And that's life, isn't it?

—Gabrielle Zevin in Elsewhere

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Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.

—Emily Dickinson

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Let there be such oneness between us that when one cries, the other tastes salt.

—Rosabelle Believe

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I have to say that although it broke my heart, I was, and still am, glad I was there.

—Markus Zusak in The Book Thief

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I didn’t know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of my throat and I’d cry for a week. I could feel the tears brimming and sloshing in me like water in a glass that is unsteady and too full.

—Sylvia Plath in The Bell Jar

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