“The good times and the bad times both will pass. It will pass. It will get easier. But the fact that it will get easier does not mean that it doesn’t hurt now. And when people try to minimize your pain they are doing you a disservice. And when you try to minimize your own pain you’re doing yourself a disservice. Don’t do that. The truth is that it hurts because it’s real. It hurts because it mattered. And that’s an important thing to acknowledge to yourself. But that doesn’t mean that it won’t end, that it won’t get better. Because it will.”
—John Green (via ennayak)
November 2011
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“If you’re sitting in pitch black darkness, all you can really do is sit tight and wait for your eyes to adjust.”
—Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior (via quote-book)
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“Expectation is the root of all heartache.”
—William Shakespeare (via laceofpearls)
“I am grateful that somehow we are made, in the most trying of times, to just block out everything and keep going, even when you have no idea what to do or how it will all work out.”
—Sarah Dessen
“Too bad people didn’t fall in love at the same pace, at the same time, for the same reasons, and too bad those emotions didn’t move simultaneously. But each act of madness moved at its own pace, one not dependent on the pace of anyone else. It wasn’t like tandem skydiving, where you were connected as you fell, where you were forced to fall at the same rate and use the same parachute. Falling in love was a solo act. I knew that, had learned that the hard way. You just jumped and hoped your parachute opened. Sometimes you looked up and saw you were falling by yourself, the object of your desire still on the plane, not interested in jumping, watching you descend into that scary place alone.”
—Eric Jerome Dickey (the novel Pleasure)
goodbye is what you say when there are no more hellos
