Michael Barlow

“People change, but you can't change people.”
― Kelsey Hartwell, 11 Paper Hearts

“Grief is personal. It isn't something you can share like a box of chocolates. It's yours and yours alone, a spiked steel ball chained to your ankle, a coat of nails around your shoulders, a crown of thorns. No one else can feely your pain. They cannot walk in your shoes because your shoes are full with broken glass and every time you take a step forward, it rips your soles to bloody shreds. Grief is the worst kind of torture and it never ends. You have dibs on that dungeon for the rest of your life.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Hiding Place

“Be careful what masks you wear, child, lest you lose your true face forever.”
― Cassandra Clare, Queen of Air and Darkness

“I don’t have any knack for making people cry, Ela,’ he answered softly. His voice was a caress. No, stronger, it was like a hand gripping her hand, holding her, steadying her. ‘Telling the truth makes you cry.”
― Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead