Jessica J.

“You were unsure which pain is worse -- the shock of what happened or the ache for what never will.”
― Simon Van Booy, Everything Beautiful Began After

“Once, in my father's bookshop, I heard a regular customer say that few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart. Those first images, the echo of words we think we have left behind, accompany us throughout our lives and sculpt a palace in our memory to which, sooner or later—no matter how many books we read, how many worlds we discover, or how much we learn or forget—we will return.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafon, The Shadow of the Wind

“Perhaps this is what the stories meant when they called somebody heartsick. Your heart and your stomach and your whole insides felt empty and hollow and aching.”
― Gabriel García Márquez

“It's the tragedy of loving, you can't love anything more than something you miss.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer