Memories
“No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.”
― Haruki Murakami
Image: Ben Warren
Tag: letting go
You Never Got Used to It
“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
“Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn’t stop for anybody.”
– Stephen Chbosky (The Perks of Being a Wallflower)
Lasts a Lifetime
“Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime.”
― Mineko Iwasaki
Image: Benjamin Voros
Your Life was Changing
“Someday you’re gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You’ll see that you were in mourning and your heart was broken, but your life was changing. ..”
― Elizabeth Gilbert
Image: Horváth Attila
Hearts can Break
“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
Separation
“Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”
― Kahlil Gibran
Image: Dodi Achmad
Good Sign
“This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, (Eat, Pray, Love)
Feeling Nothing
“To have felt too much is to end in feeling nothing. ”
– Dorothy Thompson
Love Never Dies a Natural Death
“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”
― Anais Nin