Zackie

“One pain is lessened by another’s anguish. ... Take thou some new infection to thy eye, And the rank poison of the old will die.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

“my mother, poor fish,
wanting to be happy, beaten two or three times a
week, telling me to be happy: "Henry, smile!
why don't you ever smile?"

and then she would smile, to show me how, and it was the
saddest smile I ever saw”
― Charles Bukowski

“Our wounds are often the openings into the best and most beautiful part of us.”
― David Richo

“Sometimes, pain is all that lets you know you're alive.”
― Robert Jordan, Crossroads of Twilight