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“I want to believe that happiness might at least be possible later on in life for people prone to sadness.”
― Matthew Quick, Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock

“Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.”
― C.S. Lewis

“There is no lasting hope in violence, only temporary relief from hopelessness.”
― Kingman Brewster Jr.

“You were merely wishing for the end of pain, the monster said. Your own pain. An end to how it isolated you. It is the most human wish of all.”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls