You never got used to it, the idea of someone being gone. Just when you think it’s reconciled, accepted, someone points it out to you, and it just hits you all over again.
Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever(Source: reluis)
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Marcel Proust(Source: colourthysoul, via reluis)
When someone you love dies, and you’re not expecting it, you don’t lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time — the way the mail stops coming, and her scent fades from the pillows and even from the clothes in her closet and drawers. Gradually, you accumulate the parts of her that are gone. Just when the day comes — when there’s a particular missing part that overwhelms you with the feeling that she’s gone, forever — there comes another day, and another specifically missing part.
John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany(Source: reluis)
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Behind the mask of ice that people wear, there beats a heart of fire.
Paulo Coelho, Warrior of the Light(Source: sweetannasour)
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
Oscar Wilde(Source: reluis)
You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.
Jonathan Safran Foer(Source: reluis)
We must be our own before we can be another’s.
Ralph Waldo Emerson(Source: childrenslaughter, via upsidedownkiss)
You need to grab whatever chance you have of happiness where you find it, and not worry about other people too much. My experience tells me that we get no more than two or three such chances in a life time, and if we let them go, we regret it for the rest of our lives.
Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood(Source: reluis)
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Why don’t you tell me that ‘if the girl had been worth having, she’d have waited for you’? No, sir, the girl really worth having won’t wait for anybody.
F. Scott Fitzgerald(Source: saddest-summer)
seriously.
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I never knew until that moment how bad it could hurt to lose something you never really had.
The Wonder Years(Source: saddest-summer)
