“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
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“Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.”
“A life of noticing someone who doesn’t notice you is a life of pain, heartbreak, and suffering.”
“I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.”
“The heart was made to be broken.”
“Nothing that’s worthwhile is ever easy. Remember that.”
“When you’re struggling with something, look at all the people around you and realize that every single person you see is struggling with something, and to them, it’s just as hard as what you’re going through.”
Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, ‘It might have been’.
“This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.”
“And I’m suppose to sit by while you date boys and fall in love with someone else, get married…?” His voice tightened. “And meanwhile, I’ll die a little bit more every day, watching.”
“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
“Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.”
“In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”
“Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it’s not because they enjoy solitude. It’s because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.”
“Death ends a life, not a relationship.”
“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.”
“It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.”
“Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.”
“The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.”
“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”