Julia

“That's the paradox of loss: How can something that's gone weigh us down so much?”
― Jodi Picoult, The Storyteller

“Opening your eyes is all that is needing. The heart lies and the head plays tricks with us, but the eyes see true. Look with your eyes. Hear with your ears. Taste with your mouth. Smell with your nose. Feel with your skin. Then comes the thinking, afterward, and in that way knowing the truth.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“No amount of guilt can change the past, and no amount of worrying can change the future. Go easy on yourself, for the outcome of all affairs is determined by Allaah’s decree.

If something is meant to go elsewhere, it will never come your way, but if it is yours by destiny, from it you cannot flee.”
― Umar Ibn Al-Khattaab

“That's why we read fiction, isn't it? To remind us that whatever we suffer, we're not the only ones?”
― Jodi Picoult, The Storyteller