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“Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“Sometimes she'd go a whole day without thinking of him or missing him. Why not? She had quite a full life, and really, he'd often been hard to deal with and hard to live with. A project, the Yankee oldtimers like her very own Dad might have said. And then sometimes a day would come, a gray one (or a sunny one) when she missed him so fiercely she felt empty, not a woman at all anymore but just a dead tree filled with cold November blow. She felt like that now, felt like hollering his name and hollering him home, and her heart turned sick with the thought of the years ahead and she wondered what good love was if it came to this, to even ten seconds of feeling like this.”
― Stephen King, Lisey's Story

“We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture