Anis

“Forgiveness means saying that you're not going to let what happened to you define you any longer.”
― Heidi Priebe, This Is Me Letting You Go

“He smiled understandingly-much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced--or seemed to face--the whole eternal world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“At the end of your life, go out with a bruised-up, worn out heart that gave too much and loved too strongly and felt too fiercely.”
― Heidi Priebe, This Is Me Letting You Go

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood