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“Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“His rough stubble grazes my shoulder, and I hope it scars me. I hope I can feel him, see him, have evidence of his love forever.”
― W. Winters

“No soulmate leaves the world alone; they always take a piece of their other half along with them.”
― Brittainy C. Cherry, The Air He Breathes

“You know that place between nightmares and dreams? The place where tomorrows never come and yesterdays don't hurt anymore? The place where your heart beats in sync with mine? The place where time doesn't exist, and it's easy to breathe?
I want to live there with you.”
― Brittainy C. Cherry, The Air He Breathes

“Even when your heart was hurting, there was something so hopeful about reading a book filled with love. The pages were somewhat of a reminder that maybe one day I would be okay again. Maybe one day I would be all right.”
― Brittainy C. Cherry, The Air He Breathes

“Sometimes the hardest part of existing without your loved ones was remembering how to breathe.”
― Brittainy C. Cherry, The Air He Breathes

“It was amazing how our minds crafted stories for strangers who probably needed love more than our close-minded judgments.”
― Brittainy C. Cherry, The Air He Breathes

“He and I together was a terrible idea. We were both unstable, we were both shattered, and there was no getting around it. He was thunder, I was lightning, and we were seconds away from creating the perfect storm.”
― Brittainy C. Cherry, The Air He Breathes

“The hardest part about losing someone you love is the fact that you also lose yourself.”
― Brittainy C. Cherry, The Air He Breathes

“They didn't know me, but one day they would. I would rise from the ashes that tried to suffocate me. I would be like a phoenix amid the filth, flying high above them. And this time, it would be my baby and me. She'd be great, a force to be reckoned with, smart, intelligent, and wise beyond her years. She would not suffer fools, and she would not let any man deter her.”
― Xyla Turner, Mr. West

“Kindness doesn't sink as deep into your skin as the damage does. The damage stains your soul so bad, you can't scrub it off. It stays there forever, and I feel like people can see all my damage just by looking at me.”
― Colleen Hoover, Heart Bones

“We are not mad. We are human. We want to love and someone must forgive us for the paths we take to love, for the paths are many and dark, and we are ardent and cruel in out journey.”
― Leonard Cohen

“But the thing people don't realize is that the past is a living, breathing entity that exist apart from our wishes or best intentions. It's not gone, and it's certainly not invisible. It's fingerprints are smeared all over every moment of the present, its weight drags on every second of the future, its consequences echo down every hallway of our lives.”
― J.T. Geissinger, Perfect Strangers

“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Our bones have a wisdom our hearts will always follow, regardless of the roads down which our rational minds think we should head.”
― J.T. Geissinger, Perfect Strangers

“Whatever bad thing happened to you, it hasn't made you less beautiful. There's beauty in darkness, too. It just takes a different kind of vision to see it.”
― J.T. Geissinger, Perfect Strangers

“There will always be a reason why you meet people. Either you need them to change your life or you're the one that will change theirs.”
― Angel Flonis Harefa

“Life may not always go the way you’d planned, you may not have the perfect family, you may not be the most beautiful, but that doesn’t mean you can’t make the best of what you do have.”
― Madeline Sheehan, Unbeautifully

“Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.”
― Charlaine Harris

“My life story is the story of everyone I've ever met.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“I'll belong to libraries wherever I go. Maybe eventually I'll belong to libraries on other planets.”
― Jo Walton, Among Others