“Nirvana means freedom. Freedom from suffering. I guess some people would say that death is just that. So, congratulations on being free, I guess. The rest of us are still here, grappling with all that's been torn up.”
― Love Letters to the Dead
― Love Letters to the Dead
“There is no such thing as bad people. We’re all just people who sometimes do bad things.”
― It Ends with Us
― It Ends with Us
“When we are in love, we are both completely in danger and completely saved.”
― Love Letters to the Dead
― Love Letters to the Dead
“I've become this happiness scavenger who picks away at the ugliness of the world, because if there's happiness tucked away in my tragedies, I'll find it no matter what. If the blind can find joy in music, and the deaf can discover it with colors, I will do my best to always find the sun in the darkness because my life isn't one sad ending—it's a series of endless happy beginnings.”
― More Happy Than Not
― More Happy Than Not
“It's sad when everyone knows you, but no one knows you.”
― Love Letters to the Dead
― Love Letters to the Dead
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