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"We need never be ashamed of our tears."
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"Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates."
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"Once upon a time, you dragged a part of me into the world of the dead, and now Naoko has dragged another pat of me into that world."
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"Today is the anniversary of my husband's death," Maria announced. It was a dramatic statement, but the occasion seemed to demand it. "And I am going to leave."
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"How could you give me life, and take from me all the inappreciable things that raise it from the state of conscious death? Where are the graces of my soul? Where are the sentiments of my heart? What have you done, oh, Father, What have you done with the garden that should have bloomed once, in this great wilderness here? Said louisa as she touched her heart."
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"Some grief shows much of love,But much of grief shows still some want of wit."
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"She did not want to talk of her sorrow, but with that sorrow in her heart she could not talk of outside matters."
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"Nehemia was gone. That vibrant, fierce, loving soul; the princess who had been called the Light of Eyllwe; the woman who had been a beacon of hope-just like that, as if she were no more than a wisp of candlelight, she was gone.When it had mattered most Celaena hadn't been there.Nehemia was gone."
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"But sometimes, unexpectedly, grief pounded over me in waves that left me gasping; and when the waves washed back, I found myself looking out over a brackish wreck which was illumined in a light so lucid, so heartsick and empty, that I could hardly remember that the world had ever been anything but dead."
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"And what this is, I realize, is life. I don't want it. I want my parents and I have for weeks. I've been trying to claw my way back to them, and now I am so close and he is telling me not to."
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"Adam says I isolate. He is addicted to telling me that I spend too much time in my head. It's an unhealthy behavior. Look, I don't see how not bothering other people with your screwed-up vision of the world constitutes unhealthy behavior."
Isolation

"I have it in my head that when we're born, God writes things down on our hearts. See, on some people's hearts he writes happy and on some people's hearts he writes sad and on some people's hearts he writes crazy and on some people's hearts he writes genius and on some people's hearts he writes angry and on some people's hearts he writes winner and on some people's hearts he writes loser."
Fate

"The heart can get really cold if all you've known is winter."
Emotion

"I wondered what it would be like, to love a girl, to know how a girl thinks, to see the world through a girl's eyes. Maybe they knew more than boys. Maybe they understood things that boys could never understand."
Understanding

"I didn't think it was my job to accept what everyone said I was and who I should be."
Identity

"I bet you could sometimes find all the mysteries of the universe in someone's hand."
Science

"That was the first time I did coke.My body, it was electric. For the first time in my life I felt as if I had a real heart and a real body and I knew that there was this fire in me that could have lit up the entire universe. No book had ever made me feel that way. No human being had ever made me feel like that."
Passion

"I wished it was raining,' he said.'I don't need the rain,' I said. 'I need you."
Longing

"I was getting an A for work. But not for talent. The story of my life."
Talent

"I live in an ecotone. Employment must coexist with goofing off. Responsibility must coexist with irresponsibility."
Life
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