Jen

“You’ll never truly know how strong your spiritual practice is until you’re faced with your own mortality. Until you’re faced with an incurable disease, and you realize that the greater battle is not one of body, but the one in your mind.”
― Bill Madden

“People come in and out of your life. For a time they are your world; they are everything. And then one day they're not. There's no telling how long you will have them near. A year ago I could not have imagined that Josh would no longer be a constant for me. I couldn't have conceived of how hard it would be to not see Margot every day, how lost I would feel without her- or how easily Josh could slip away, without me even realizing. It's the good-byes that are hard.”
― Jenny Han, P.S. I Still Love You

“Disliking humanity in general, she was one of those excessively tender-hearted people who are greatly moved by the troubles of complete strangers, in which she sometimes imagined herself playing a noble part.”
― Barbara Pym, Jane and Prudence

“Why do you dislike people?"

"I didn't say I disliked people. Not to like people isn't the same as to dislike them."

He sounded profound and I needed time to mull over that idea.”
― Maya Angelou, Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas