“That was the thing. 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, that shocking.”
― Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever
Image: Yury Orlov
“Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn’t stop for anybody.”
– Stephen Chbosky (The Perks of Being a Wallflower)
“Sometimes life has a cruel sense of humor, giving you the thing, you always wanted at the worst time possible.”
― Lisa Kleypas
Image: confession – Kinga Cichewicz
“Hearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they did, but we don’t.”
– Stephen King
Image: Adrian Swancar
“Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”
― Kahlil Gibran
Image: Dodi Achmad
“You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.”
– Jonathan Safran Foer
Image: Nathan Dumlao
“Tears are words the mouth can’t say nor can the heart bear.”
– Joshua Wisenbaker
Image: Tears for the loss of a beloved family member. – Kat J
“I don’t want to break someone’s heart, but you can’t control that. A broken heart happens; that’s inevitable.”
– Lykke Li
Image: Priscilla Du Preez
“There is some kind of a sweet innocence in being human- in not having to be just happy or just sad- in the nature of being able to be both broken and whole, at the same time.”
– C. Joybell 
