Jo Turtle-jo

“The most painful thing in life is losing yourself in the process of valuing someone too much and forgetting that you are special too”
― Buddhist Text Translation Society

“And it now occurred to me that maybe the whole point was, in fact, to lose yourself. But not in the sense of confusion--in the sense of connection to something bigger than yourself...Getting lost to be found.”
― Tanuja Desai Hidier, Born Confused

“Gray yells that he can't just let me go because you don't give up on the people you love, but maybe I need to lose someone in order to understand that.
"You're dreaming," he says. "Call me when you decide to wake up.”
― Katie Kacvinsky, First Comes Love

“Once you lose someone it is never exactly
the same person who comes back.”
― Sharon Olds, Satan Says