Ali

“The moral of the story is that grief, to the person of feeling, is a permanent wound, not a transient state.”
― Micheal Korda

“I’d allowed myself to feel love –yes, love– for another person in a way I’d once sworn to myself I never would. I’d become completely vulnerable, and now I’d been torn apart with hurt and catapulted onto a path I might never have taken otherwise. I’d risked my life for an outsider. For a stranger. Worse, I had a feeling I was going to do it again.”
― Kate Avery Ellison, Frost

“Denial does not change reality for everyone else. Only for the one denying and those who are foolish enough to believe the fantasy.”
― Elle Casey

“You know, they've got these chocolate assortments, and you like some but you don't like others? And you eat all the ones you like, and the only ones left are the ones you don't like as much? I always think about that when something painful comes up. Now I just have to
polish these off, and everything'll be OK. Life is a box of chocolates. I suppose you could call it a philosophy.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood