Jen

“Jo had learned that hearts, like flowers, cannot be rudely handled, but must open naturally…”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.”
― Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy

“Remembrance restores possibility to the past, making what happened incomplete and completing what never was. Remembrance is neither what happened nor what did not happen but, rather, their potentialization, their becoming possible once again.”
― Giorgio Agamben, Potentialities: Collected Essays in Philosophy

“Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Good Wives