Nicki

“Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.”
― Rumi

“Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“An emotion does not cause pain. Resistance or suppression of emotion causes pain.”
― Frederick Dodson, Parallel Universes of Self

“Among my stillness was a pounding heart.”
― Shannon A. Thompson, Seconds Before Sunrise