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"We are all broken in some way. Pieced back together anyways we can."

"You can live days without food but only minutes without air."

"You make time for the ones you love, the ones who love you in return."

"Being angry is easy. Loving someone is not. Distance works wonders at fuelling emotions. Proximity does not."

"Most would call it confidence, but, more than that, it was that he'd driven on the road to hell, and every other road was heaven."

"But now she remembers that words don't matter. She has glasses to her soul and could always see into it so clearly."

"Feelings don't die. They wait. They stew and grow and surge back bigger, better, stronger than before. They demand to be felt."

"The truth is rarely evident in anger; it's hidden, buried beneath the inconsequential."

"Loneliness is cruel to the body. People aren't meant to be alone. God said so. It is not good that man should ve alone."

"Men are haunted by the vastness of eternity. And so we ask ourselves: Will our actions echo across the centuries? Will strangers hear our names long after we are gone and wonder who we were, how bravely we fought, how fiercely we loved?" - Odysseus