Passant

“...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

“loneliness.
By all the saints, he was mad. He should be filled with hatred and thoughts of revenge. Vaden was his enemy and that time of friendship has gone. When would he learn to give up those memories and realize Vaden meant what he said?
Tonight. From no on he would regard Vaden as any other enemy. To do anything else would endanger Dundragon and Thea. He must close away this sense of loss and behave with sanity.
The entire world was a barren place. To accept that Vaden was his enemy did not make the loneliness more desolate.
It only seemed to make it weigh heavier, much heavier,”
― Iris Johansen

“التسليم بما حدث مهما كان صعباً هو الخطوة الأولى للتغلب على الألام ، فرفضنا الداخلي للتسليم ببعض ما تحمله لنا أمواج الحياه يهدر قدرتنا النفسية و العصبية والصحية بلا طائل”
― عبد الوهاب مطاوع, نهر الحياة

“You see, some things I can teach you. Some you learn from books. But there are things that, well, you have to see and feel.”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns