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  • #1
    Gabrielle Zevin
    “Someday, we’ll run into each other again, I know it.
    Maybe I’ll be older and smarter and just plain better. If that happens,
    that’s when I’ll deserve you. But now, at this moment, you can’t hook
    your boat to mine, because I’m liable to sink us both.”
    Gabrielle Zevin, Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

  • #2
    Vincent van Gogh
    “The sadness will last forever.”
    Vincent van Gogh

  • #3
    John Keats
    “I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.”
    John Keats

  • #4
    John Lennon
    “When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.”
    John Lennon

  • #5
    Sharon Creech
    “You can't keep the birds of sadness from flying over your head, but you can keep them from nesting in your hair.”
    Sharon Creech, Walk Two Moons

  • #6
    Jasmine Warga
    “I will be stronger than my sadness.”
    Jasmine Warga, My Heart and Other Black Holes

  • #7
    Vincent van Gogh
    “La tristesse durera toujours.
    [The sadness will last forever.]”
    Vincent van Gogh

  • #8
    Sanober  Khan
    “the saddest thing is to be
    a minute to someone,
    when you've made them your eternity.”
    Sanober Khan

  • #9
    Christina Rossetti
    “Lie still, lie still, my breaking heart;
    My silent heart, lie still and break:
    Life, and the world, and mine own self, are changed
    For a dream's sake.”
    Christina Rossetti

  • #10
    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “I remember asking myself one night, while I was curled up in the same old corner of my same old couch in tears yet again over the same old repetition of sorrowful thoughts, 'Is there ANYTHING about this scene you can change, Liz?' And all I could think to do was stand up, whle still sobbing, and try to balance on one foot in the middle of the living room. Just to prove that - while I couldn't stop the tears or change my dismal interior dialogue - I was not yet totally out of control: at least I could cry hysterically while balanced on one foot.”
    Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

  • #11
    Haruki Murakami
    “I could disappear from the face of the earth, and the world would go on moving without the slightest twinge. Things were tremendously complicated, to be sure, but one thing was clear: no one needed me.”
    Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

  • #12
    Keary Taylor
    “Once you start down the slippery slope of depression, it's hard to climb off of it. And sometimes you don't want to climb off of it.”
    Keary Taylor, What I Didn't Say

  • #13
    Kathryn Stockett
    “That was the day my whole world went black. Air looked black. Sun looked black. I laid up in bed and stared at the black walls of my house….Took three months before I even looked out the window, see the world still there. I was surprised to see the world didn’t stop.”
    Kathryn Stockett, The Help

  • #14
    J.K. Rowling
    “He gave everything to everybody. Except to me.”
    J.K. Rowling, The Casual Vacancy

  • #15
    “The person you hurt the most in this world was the person that brought you into it.”
    Vannary Rang

  • #16
    Lana Del Rey
    “Think I'll miss you forever,
    Like the stars miss the sun in the morning sky.”
    Lana Del Rey

  • #17
    Rosamund Lupton
    “Your coffin reached the monstrous hole. And a part of me went down into the muddy earth with you and lay down next to you and died with you.”
    Rosamund Lupton, Sister

  • #18
    “Grief, no matter how you try to cater to its wail, has a way of fading away.”
    V.C. Andrews, Flowers in the Attic

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  • #20
    “No one's ever going to shag you if you cry all the time.”
    Richard Kelly

  • #21
    E. Lockhart
    “My boyfriend is named Percocet," I say. "We're very close. I even went to Europe with him last summer.”
    E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

  • #22
    Sojourner Truth
    “If women want rights more than they got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it.”
    Sojourner Truth

  • #23
    Sojourner Truth
    “If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again! And now they is asking to do it, the men better let them.”
    Sojourner Truth

  • #24
    Sojourner Truth
    “I feel safe in the midst of my enemies, for the truth is all powerful and will prevail.”
    Sojourner Truth



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