Naomi Thompson

“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
― haruki murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

“New Beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.”
― Lao Tzu

“No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself.”
― Haruki Murakami, After the Quake

“You try every trick in the book to keep her. You write her letters. You quote Neruda. You cancel your Facebook. You give her the passwords to all your e-mail accounts. Because you know in your lying cheater’s heart that sometimes a start is all we ever get.”
― Junot Díaz, This Is How You Lose Her