Sara Downing

“Once a heart breaks…it doesn’t just grow back. It’s not a lizard’s tail. It’s more like a huge stained glass that shattered into a million pieces, and it’s not going back together. Least not the way it was. You can mush it all into one piece, but that doesn’t make it a window. That makes it a pile of broken colored glass. Shattered hearts don’t mend and they don’t heal. They just don’t work that way.”
― Charles Martin, The Mountain Between Us

“The beginning is always today.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft

“loving somebody gets better the more you do it.”
― Charles Martin, The Mountain Between Us

“Happiness is something that comes from our own hearts, not from other people.”
― Lynn Austin, While We're Far Apart: