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#1

“But it’s not love, to give your wounds to someone else.”
― Rory Power, Burn Our Bodies Down

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#2

“Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

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#3

“There will come a time when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything. There will be no one left to remember Aristotle or Cleopatra, let alone you. Everything that we did and built and wrote and thought and discovered will be forgotten and all of this will have been for naught. Maybe that time is coming soon and maybe it is millions of years away, but even if we survive the collapse of our sun, we will not survive forever. There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it. God knows that’s what everyone else does.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

tags: existence, life

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#4

“You don't have to be our worst case, to be a worthy case.”
― Courtney Summers, The Project

tags: addiction, addiction-and-recovery, mental-health, mental-health-stigma, recovery

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#5

“Don't think or judge, just listen.”
― Sarah Dessen, Just Listen

tags: inspirational-quotes

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#6

“There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you'll never understand what it's saying.”
― Sarah Dessen, Just Listen

tags: just-litsen, sarah-dessen, time

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#7

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
― Lao Tzu

tags: courage, deeply-loved, love, strength, widely-misattributed

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#8

“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither

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#9

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
― Albert Camus

tags: seasons, strength, trial, triumph

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#10

“There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn't.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

tags: brain, brains, hope, inner-thoughts, mental-health, mental-illness, thoughts

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#11

“Mental illness

People assume you aren’t sick
unless they see the sickness on your skin
like scars forming a map of all the ways you’re hurting.

My heart is a prison of Have you tried?s
Have you tried exercising? Have you tried eating better?
Have you tried not being sad, not being sick?
Have you tried being more like me?
Have you tried shutting up?

Yes, I have tried. Yes, I am still trying,
and yes, I am still sick.

Sometimes monsters are invisible, and
sometimes demons attack you from the inside.
Just because you cannot see the claws and the teeth
does not mean they aren’t ripping through me.
Pain does not need to be seen to be felt.

Telling me there is no problem
won’t solve the problem.

This is not how miracles are born.
This is not how sickness works.”
― Emm Roy, The First Step

tags: chronic-illness, chronic-pain, emotional-pain, invisible-illness, mental-disorder, mental-health, mental-illness, misunderstood, pain, poem, prejudice, stigma

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#12

“In residency, I studied in a bookstore’s coffee shop, which was where a clutch of women gathered monthly for book club. They would set their library books and blueberry scones on the table. I started eavesdropping and realized that the books they read were just an excuse to talk about their own lives. Every character, every broken heart, every twist of fate inspired a story about an unruly mother-in-law, a philandering father, or the cousin who came out to his unforgiving parents. Sometimes it sounded more like a therapy session than a book discussion. I could never join a book club.”
― Nadia Hashimi, Sparks Like Stars

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#13

“People are God’s cruelest creations. They’ll step on the smallest of backs to feel an inch taller.”
― Nadia Hashimi, Sparks Like Stars

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#14

“An Afghan carpet, perhaps by design, conceals blood just as well as it conceals spilled tea.”
― Nadia Hashimi, Sparks Like Stars

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#15

“untold histories live in shallow graves.”
― Nadia Hashimi, Sparks Like Stars

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#16

“She would be brave because her father had once told her that the world lived within her. That her bones were made of mountains. That rivers coursed through her veins. That her heartbeat was the sound of a thousand pounding hooves. That her eyes glittered with the light of a starry sky. I am that girl, and this is my story.”
― Nadia Hashimi, Sparks Like Stars

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#17

“Let people serve you information, but never let them serve you your opinion.”
― Nadia Hashimi, Sparks Like Stars

tags: knowledge, opinions, propaganda

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#18

“Grief is nothing but the far brink of love. Love is the sun; grief is the shadow it casts. Love is an opera; grief is its echo. You cannot have one without the other. But if you follow that grief, you will find your way back to love.”
― Nadia Hashimi, Sparks Like Stars

tags: grief, grief-and-loss, healing, healing-journey, hurt, inspirational, loss, love

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#19

“Grief starts before anyone has gone missing.”
― Nadia Hashimi, Sparks Like Stars

tags: grief, loss

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#20

“Having a sister, mom says, is a place only the two of them will share, made of secrets they never have to say aloud - but if they did, it would be in a language only the two of them could speak. Having a sister is a promise no one but the two of you can make - and no one but the two of you can break.”
― Courtney Summers, The Project

tags: family, promise, sisters

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#21

“For that brief period when everything ugly is covered under the sparkle of something so new, the world almost feels like it’s living up to its potential.”
― Courtney Summers, The Project

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#22

“When someone leaves your life, those exits are not made equal. Some are beautiful and poetic and satisfying. Others are abrupt and unfair. But most are just unremarkable, unintentional, clumsy.”
― Griffin McElroy

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#23

“Sadly enough, the most painful goodbyes are the ones that are left unsaid and never explained.”
― Jonathan Harnisch, Freak

tags: breaking-up, breakup, breakup-quote, breakup-quotes, breakups, death, death-and-dying, death-and-sickness, death-of-a-loved-one, friendship-lost, goodbye, goodbyes, life, life-and-living, life-philosophy, life-quotes, loss-of-a-child, loss-of-a-loved-one, loss-of-family, loss-of-hope, lost-love, pain, painful-memories, sudden-death

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#24

“We ran for many reasons. We ran to protect ourselves. We ran so we would not die, so that our daughters could live.”
― Tracy Deonn, Bloodmarked

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#25

“But grief isn’t a competition. It’s not an identical pain that we all meet one day when death finds us. It’s a monster, personalized by our love and memories to devour us just so. Grief is suffering, tailored.”
― Tracy Deonn, Bloodmarked

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#26

“I love having existential crises at bedtime, it's so restful.”
― Naomi Novik, A Deadly Education

tags: humor

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#27

“READER, I RAN the fuck away.”
― Naomi Novik, A Deadly Education

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#28

“But hope is good strong drink, especially when you can get someone else to buy it for you.”
― Naomi Novik, A Deadly Education

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#29

“But just because it’s a forty-sixth-order derivative equation or something doesn’t mean that I can’t work out which side of that equation is the guilty one.”
― Naomi Novik, A Deadly Education

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#30

“There’s no such thing as normal people, I said, a desperate flailing. “There’s just people, and some of them are miserable, and some of them are happy, and you’ve the same right to be happy as any of them—no more and no less.”
― Naomi Novik, The Last Graduate

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