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“And yet I swear
I love this earth
that scars and scalds,
that burns my feet.

And even hell is holy.”
― Gregory Orr

“Falling in love was simple; one had only to yield. Digesting another person, however, and sustaining love, was bloody work, and not a soft job.”
― Hanif Kureishi, Midnight all Day

“For a star to be born, there is one thing that must happen: a gaseous nebula must collapse.

So collapse.
Crumble.
This is not your destruction.

This is your birth.”
― Zoe Skylar

“From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them, and that is eternity.”
― Edvard Munch

“Growing apart doesn't change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I'm glad for that.”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“don’t you dare, for one minute,
believe that my kindness makes me
anything but insurmountable.
I did not unzip my chest to every kind of hurt,
and stagger back, wounded and alive,
just to hear you call me weak for trying.”
― Ashe Vernon

“Grief, I’ve learned, is really just love. It’s all the love you want to give, but cannot. All that unspent love gathers up in the corners of your eyes, the lump in your throat, and in that hollow part of your chest. Grief is just love with no place to go.”
― Jamie Anderson

“Have you ever asked yourself, do monsters make war, or does war make monsters?”
― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone

“Having a soft heart in a cruel world is courage, not weakness.”
― Katherine Henson

“Her suffering was her armour. Gradually it became her skin. Then she could not take it off.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

“There is a shipwreck between your ribs and it took eighteen years
for me to understand how to understand your kind of drowning.
There are people who cannot be held quietly. There are screams
that are never externalized. If I looked at the photo albums of your
past twenty years, all I would find are decibel meter graphs of
phone calls and the intensity of your silence as you sat
smoking cigarettes in the garage.

There is a shipwreck between your ribs. You are a box with
fragile written on it, and so many people have not handled you
with care.

And for the first time, I understand that I will never know
how to apologize for being
one of them.”
― Shinji Moon

“He looked him right in the eyes and saw a man who was great and good and human, who had done extraordinary things and terrible things and been broken and reassembled as a shell, only then to do the bravest thing of all: He had kept on living, though there are easier paths to take.”
― Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer

“I am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any other that I have gotten from there to here.”
― Charles Bukowski

“And here you come
with a shield for a heart
and a sword for a tongue”
― Carol Ann Duffy

“Be merciful until you can't be.
Until you feel your heart begin to harden into a bullet.

Then use that bullet.”
― Clementine von Radics, Mouthful of Forevers

“I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

“i am water

soft enough
to offer life
tough enough
to drown it away”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

“But all the magic I have known
I've had to make myself.”
― Shel Silverstein, Where the Sidewalk Ends

“I feel it, I feel my thin morals dissolving. I feel my flimsy, moth-eaten skin of humanity begin to come apart, and with it, the veil keeping me from complete darkness. There are no lines I won't cross. No illusions of mercy.

I wanted to be better for her. For her happiness. For her future.

But if she's gone, what good is goodness?

- Warner”
― Tahereh Mafi, Defy Me

“I guess by now I should know enough about loss to realize that you never really stop missing someone-you just learn to live around the huge gaping hole of their absence.”
― Alyson Noel, Evermore

“Of all evil I deem you capable: Therefore I want good from you. Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“I mean, I hope you're happy,
But the sky is still the sky without you,
And I'm not surprised by that anymore.”
― Caitlyn Siehl

“I hope our daughters are born with so much fire in their souls, they could put volcanoes and stars to shame.”
― Nikita Gill

“And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.”
― Mary Anne Radmacher

“I have seen horrible things, and some of them all the more horrible because they were, well, normal.”
― Terry Pratchett, I Shall Wear Midnight

“I, myself, am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.”
― Augusten Burroughs

“I love you,” he murmured. “That means I’m not just here for the pretty parts. I’m here no matter what.”
― Claudia Gray, Hourglass

“To be a monster is to be a hybrid signal, a lighthouse: both shelter and warning at once.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“I said to the sun, ‘Tell me about the big bang.’ The sun said, ‘it hurts to become.”
― Andrea Gibson