“Memories have to be our most painful blessing.”
—Kanye West
Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts."
-- Winston S. Churchill
“Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical;
don't edit your own soul according to the fashion.
Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”
—Franz Kafka
“I dream of a grave, deep and narrow,
where we could clasp each other in our arms and I would hide my face in you,
and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more.”
—Franz Kafka, The Castle
“I deserve all the sun I can get, and all the blue-gold sky I want around me.”
— Fatimah Asghar, from “Pluto Shits on the Universe.”
“I will fall across your body when night spreads its greedy magnetic lust and power.”
—Miguel Hernández
“Just for the record, she still loves you.
She wouldn’t bother to torture you if she didn’t.”
—Chuck Palahniuk, Diary
“Some people, they can't just move on, you know, mourn and cry and be done with it. Or at least seem to be. But for me... I don't know. I didn't want to fix it, to forget. It wasn't something that was broken. It's just...something that happened. And like that hole, I'm just finding ways, every day, of working around it. Respecting and remembering and getting on at the same time.”
—Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever
“In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who lose a child.”
—Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
“When one person is missing the whole world seems empty.”
—Pat Schweibert
“It is not down in any map; true places never are.”
- Herman Melville
“I have lived with you and loved you, and now you are gone.
Gone where I cannot follow, until I have finished all of my days.”
—Victoria Hanley
“Everyone keeps telling me that time heals all wounds, but no one can tell me what I’m supposed to do right now.
Right now I can’t sleep.
It’s right now that I can’t eat.
Right now I still hear his voice and sense his presence even though I know he’s not here.
Right now all I seem to do is cry.
I know all about time and wounds healing, but even if I had all the time in the world, I still don’t know what to do with all this hurt right now.”
—Nina Guilbeau, Too Many Sisters
“I want something that only you can give me.
I want it badly.”
—Henry Miller in a letter to Anaïs Nin.
“I loved him in my heart, always believed in him, and even after losing him could still not tear him out of my soul.”
—Zinaida Nikolaevna
“She loves you, you know? She’s just afraid of losing you, so she holds you far away. Funny how we are, isn’t it?”
—Pierce Brown, Morning Star
“I have always loved too much, or not enough.”
—Dorianne Laux
“I like being infamous. I think it is safe being a cult.”
—Adam Ant
“And we wept that one so lovely should have a life so brief.
—William Cullen Bryant
“Sometimes I have a way with words - sometimes words have their way with me.”
-Atticus