“Listen to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don't believe it. Seek out the memories depression takes away and project them into the future. Be brave; be strong; take your pills. Exercise because it's good for you even if every step weighs a thousand pounds. Eat when food itself disgusts you. Reason with yourself when you have lost your reason.”
― The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
― The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
“The town was paper, but the memories were not.”
― Paper Towns
― Paper Towns
“Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.”
― The Story Girl
― The Story Girl
“The hardest thing about the road not taken is that you never know where it might have led.”
― A Month of Summer
― A Month of Summer
“He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past.”
― Love in the Time of Cholera
― Love in the Time of Cholera
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