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“What are you supposed to do with all the love you have for somebody if that person is no longer there? What happens to all that leftover love? Do you suppress it? Do you ignore it? Are you supposed to give it to someone else?”
― Maggie O'Farrell, After You'd Gone

“Why isn't life better designed so it warns you when terrible things are about to happen?”
― Maggie O'Farrell, After You'd Gone

“I'm not really sure which parts of myself are real and which parts are things I've gotten from books.”
― Beatrice Sparks, Go Ask Alice

“It's a good thing most people bleed on the inside or this would be a gory, blood-smeared earth.”
― Beatrice Sparks, Go Ask Alice

“I wouldn't intentionally hurt anyone in this whole world. I wouldn't hurt them physically or emotionally, how then can people so consistently do it to me? Even my parents treat me like I'm stupid and inferior and ever short. I guess I'll never measure up to anyone's expectations. I surely don't measure up to what I'd like to be.”
― Beatrice Sparks, Go Ask Alice

“I really am only one infinitely small part of an aching humanity.”
― Beatrice Sparks, Go Ask Alice

“You will lose what you value most, so treasure it while you can.”
― Richelle Mead, Shadow Kiss

“The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

“I know the night is not the same as the day: that all things are different, that the things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist, and the night can be a dreadful time for lonely people once their loneliness has started.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

“God knows I had not wanted to fall in love with her. I had not wanted to fall in love with any one. But God knows I had and I lay on the bed in the room of the hospital in Milan and all sorts of things went through my head but I felt wonderful...”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

“Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

“There isn't any me. I'm you. Don't make up a separate me.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

“But the thing about remembering is that you don't forget.”
― Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried

“They carried all they could bear, and then some, including a silent awe for the terrible power of the things they carried.”
― Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried

“Stories are for joining the past to the future. Stories are for those late hours in the night when you can't remember how you got from where you were to where you are. Stories are for eternity, when memory is erased, when there is nothing to remember except the story.”
― Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried

“It was very sad, he thought. The things men carried inside. The things men did or felt they had to do. ”
― Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried

“his love was too much for him, he felt paralyzed, he wanted to sleep inside her lungs and breathe her blood and be smothered.”
― Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried

“you're never more alive than when you're almost dead.”
― Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried

“But this too is true: stories can save us.”
― Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried

“But in a story I can steal her soul.”
― Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried

“Once someone's dead you can't make them undead.”
― Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried

“Imagination is a killer.”
― Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried

“Memories might keep him alive but they might kill me.”
― Lisa Schroeder, I Heart You, You Haunt Me

“If tears could bring him back, there'd be enough to bring him back a hundred times.”
― Lisa Schroeder, I Heart You, You Haunt Me

“I see
red, burning love
disappear
forever.”
― Lisa Schroeder, I Heart You, You Haunt Me

“You were unsure which pain is worse -- the shock of what happened or the ache for what never will.”
― Simon Van Booy, Everything Beautiful Began After

“Loneliness is like being the only person left alive in the
universe, except that everyone else is still here.”
― Simon Van Booy, Everything Beautiful Began After

“We see in others what we want and what we fear.”
― Simon Van Booy, Everything Beautiful Began After

“Dreamers conquered the world long ago.”
― Simon Van Booy, Everything Beautiful Began After

“The passions we cannot control are the ones that define us.”
― Simon Van Booy, Everything Beautiful Began After