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  • #1
    Emily Henry
    “Grief is an unfillable hole in your body. It should be weightless, but it's heavy. Should be cold, but it burns. Should, over time, close up, but instead it deepens.”
    Emily Henry, A Million Junes

  • #2
    Emily Henry
    “Maybe for some people, falling in love is an explosion, fireworks against a black sky and tremors rumbling through the earth. One blazing moment. For me, it's been happening for months, as quietly as a seed sprouting. Love sneaked through me, spreading roots around my heart, until, in the blink of an eye, the green of it broke the dirt: hidden one moment, there the next.”
    Emily Henry, A Million Junes
    tags: love

  • #3
    Emily Henry
    “When people pity you, it's like they don't realize that the exact same thing is coming for them. And then I feel embarrassed and uncomfortable and have to pity them, because, like, do you not realize that it's always someone's turn? You haven't noticed everyone gets a few blows that seem so big you can't survive them?”
    Emily Henry, A Million Junes

  • #4
    Emily Henry
    “I think once you've felt grief, it's hard not to catch someone else's.”
    Emily Henry, A Million Junes

  • #5
    Emily Henry
    “When you've been lost as I have," he once said, "you get good at finding your way home.”
    Emily Henry, A Million Junes

  • #6
    Emily Henry
    “It’s almost funny, in a tragic way, that the fiery thing at the center of my universe did die and that I, a girl whose name is synonymous with summer, am expected to live without it.”
    Emily Henry, A Million Junes

  • #7
    Emily Henry
    “Love is giving the world away, and being loved is having the whole world to give.”
    Emily Henry, The Love That Split the World
    tags: love

  • #8
    Emily Henry
    “And when you see those good things--and I promise you, there are so many good things--they're going to be so much brighter for you than they are for other people, just like the abyss always seems deeper and bigger when you stare at it. If you stick it out, it's all going to feel worth it in the end. Every moment you live, every darkness you face, they'll all feel worth it when you're staring light in the face.”
    Emily Henry, The Love That Split the World

  • #9
    Emily Henry
    “Sometimes the most beautiful moments in our lives are things that hurt badly at the time. We only see them for what they really were when we stand at the very end and look back.”
    Emily Henry, The Love That Split the World

  • #10
    Emily Henry
    “Recognizing someone as a part of you before they've even become that person in your life, and knowing, without a doubt, that neither of you will ever be who are you in this exact moment ever again and believing, against all odds, you will continue to belong to one another despite that.”
    Emily Henry, The Love That Split the World

  • #11
    Emily Henry
    “Why did they have to sacrifice anything?”
    “It was a symbol,” Grandmother explains. “Of an innocent dying on behalf of someone else—the greatest act of love. A choice to die so someone else doesn’t have to.”
    Emily Henry, The Love That Split the World

  • #12
    Emily Henry
    “There's nothing scarier than loving someone”
    Emily Henry, The Love That Split the World

  • #13
    Emily Henry
    “And because she jumped, our world began”
    Emily Henry, The Love That Split the World

  • #14
    Emily Henry
    “She may be a bitch, but she's a genuine bitch with a heart”
    Emily Henry, The Love That Split the World

  • #15
    Emily Henry
    “And sometimes, we don’t talk about things because we don’t want to be comforted. We don’t want anyone to tell us it wasn’t our fault, or that they forgive us, or that we did the best we could. We want to hold on to that pain because we think that’s what we deserve. We worry that if we let it go, we’re dishonoring it.”
    Emily Henry, The Love That Split the World

  • #16
    Ruta Sepetys
    “I wept because i had no shoes,
    until i met a man who had no feet.”
    Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea

  • #17
    Ruta Sepetys
    “I became good at pretending. I became so good that after a while the lines blurred between my truth and fiction. And sometimes, when I did a really good job of pretending, I even fooled myself.”
    Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea

  • #18
    Ruta Sepetys
    “What had human beings become? Did war make us evil or just activate an evil already lurking within us?”
    Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea

  • #19
    Ruta Sepetys
    “I wanted to stay locked away from the pain and destruction. I didn't want to be strong. I didn't want to be the 'smart girl'. I was so very tired. I just wanted it all to be over.”
    Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea

  • #20
    Ruta Sepetys
    “Per aspera ad astra, Papa,' I whispered. Through hardship to the stars.”
    Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea

  • #21
    Ruta Sepetys
    “Enough studying, Joana. Sometimes living life is more instructive than studying it.”
    Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea

  • #22
    Heather Demetrios
    “And maybe some people are like collages - no matter how broken or useless we felt, we were an essential part of the whole. We mattered.”
    Heather Demetrios, I'll Meet You There

  • #23
    Heather Demetrios
    “What am I supposed to do when I’m bad for the one good thing in my life?”
    Heather Demetrios, I'll Meet You There

  • #24
    Heather Demetrios
    “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I'll meet you there.”
    Heather Demetrios, I'll Meet You There

  • #25
    “I don't know who I am right now. But I know who I'm not. And I like that.”
    Amber Smith, The Way I Used to Be

  • #26
    Amber   Smith
    “I can hear him breathing on the other side of the door,breathing oddly,like,unevenly. But,no,it's not him just breathing,I realize slowly. He's crying. And I kneel there on the other side of the door that might as well be the other side of the galaxy,feeling so empty,so dead inside.”
    Amber Smith, The Way I Used to Be

  • #27
    Amber   Smith
    “He's not the hero and he's not the enemy and he's not a god. He's just a boy. And I'm just a girl, a girl who needs to pick up her own pieces and put them back together herself.”
    Amber Smith, The Way I Used to Be

  • #28
    Amber   Smith
    “I hate that just because you happen to be good at something,people automatically think that's what makes you happy,but it's not really like that, you know? It's not that simple.”
    Amber Smith, The Way I Used to Be

  • #29
    Alyson Noel
    “I guess by now I should know enough about loss to realize that you never really stop missing someone-you just learn to live around the huge gaping hole of their absence.”
    Alyson Noel, Evermore

  • #30
    Alyson Noel
    “Today's worries are yesterday's fears and tomorrow's stories.”
    Alyson Noel, Evermore



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