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“Dive deep. Drown willingly”
― Ted Dekker, White: The Great Pursuit

“Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.”
― Maurice Switzer

“Don’t do something permanently stupid when you are temporarily upset.”
― Christian White

“It takes hours to get to know someone, really get to know them, weeks to build a relationship and months to fall truly in love. But all that could end up being for nothing because in one second your entire world could fall apart. One second. That’s all it took for him to break my heart.”
― Makenzie Campbell, 2am Thoughts

“How do I sleep when every time I close my eyes, darkness engulfs my world? The darkness you used to keep away.”
― Makenzie Campbell, 2am Thoughts

“If you are reading this, I guess I just want you to know that you meant a lot to me. Now? You’ve changed, I’ve changed. You’re a stranger. I’m a memory. I don’t miss you anymore, I miss the idea of you. But sometimes I get those two confused.”
― Makenzie Campbell, 2am Thoughts

“I refuse to store All my joy in you. For if you ever leave, I would not know what to do.”
― F.S. Yousaf, Sincerely,

“You can not say anything to me that is worse than what I have already said to myself today.”
― Jennae Cecelia, Losing Myself Brought Me Here

“At one point we were strangers who only knew each other’s faces and it was better that way. Then we got to know each other and when it was time to let go, you were no longer just a face, you were one of the only people that felt like home. I did not want to lose my home. Please do not evict me from your life. Because now I am wishing when we saw each other we did not say hi.”
― Jennae Cecelia, Losing Myself Brought Me Here

“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams,’ Thoreau had said. ‘Live the life you’ve imagined.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“After Per died, I couldn't stand to be in Oslo any more. All those people that weren't him, you know? There was this coffee shop we used in g oto, at the university. We'd just sit together, together but silen. Happy silent. Reading newspapers, drinking coffee. It was hard to avoid places like that. We used to walk around everywhere. His troublesome soul lingered on every street .. I kept telling his memory to piss the fuck off but it wouldn't. Grief is a bastard. If I'd have stayed any longer, I'd have hated humanity. So, when a research position came up in Svalbard I was like, yes, this has come to save me ... I wanted to be somewhere he had never been. I wanted somewhere where I didn't have to feel his ghost. But the truth is, it only half works, you know? Places are places and memories are memories and life is fucking life?”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“There are people who see a beautiful flower and rush over to pick it. They want to hold it in their hands, they want to own it. They want the flower's beauty to be theirs, to be in their possession, their control. Don wasn't like that. At least not at first. Don was happy to be near the flower, to look at thw flower, to appreciate the flower simply being.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo