Odette

“It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

“You brought it on yourself.” “No! Life is just too harsh and always playing with people’s fates!” “Don’t complain about life. Life is always fair. You should complain about yourself!”
― Lu Yao, Life

“Life is a series of cycles—each nothing but new people, new memories, and eventually, a new ending.”
― Kevin Hazzard, A Thousand Naked Strangers: A Paramedic's Wild Ride to the Edge and Back

“Yet sometimes, also for their own purposes, these same men turned around and set individuals like this afloat on the ship of life with a good wind at their backs. In a flash, things can change for the better. Yet while people may feel happy with their accomplishments, they may also feel a sense of loss at the suddenness of their success.”
― Lu Yao, Life