It is Hard to be Brave

Quotes

[relatablepoetryandquotes]

[quotespile]

If you care about something enough, it’s going to make you cry. But you have to use it. Use your tears. Use your pain. Use your fear. Get mad.

Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (via quotespile)

[qvotable]

And when you told me what your favorite book was, I bought it and read it over and over… trying to find pieces of you in it.

Unknown (via qvotable)

[quotemadness]

There are nights I don’t exist. There are days I fade away.

Unknown (via quotemadness)

[sunsetquotes]

But in that moment I understood what they say about nostalgia, that no matter if you’re thinking of something good or bad, it always leaves you a little emptier afterwards.

John Corey Whaley; Noggin (via sunsetquotes)

[sunsetquotes]

I wish I wasn’t such a dreamer. I’ve ruined this life for myself.

N.M. Sanchez (via sunsetquotes)

[wordsnquotes]

It was November – the month of crimson sunsets, parting birds, deep, sad hymns of the sea, passionate wind-songs in the pines.

L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables (via wordsnquotes)

[stephanericherthanyou]

I love the rain. I love how it softens the outlines of things. The world becomes softly blurred, and I feel like I melt right into it.

Hanamoto Hagumi, Honey and Clover (via artannis)

[thelovejournals]

One of the most amazing things that can happen is finding someone who sees everything you are and won’t let you be anything less. They see the potential of you. They see endless possibilities. And through their eyes, you start to see yourself the same way as someone who matters. As someone who can make a difference in the world. If you’re lucky enough to find this person, never let them go.

Susan Colasanti, So Much Closer   (via thelovejournals)

[thelovejournals]

I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Elizabeth Browning (via thelovejournals)

[thelovejournals]

The most memorable people in life will be the friends who loved you when you weren’t very lovable.

Aidan Chambers (via thelovejournals)

[theliteraryjournals]

I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled. I could not control the world I was in, could not walk away from things or people or moments that hurt, but I took joy in the things that made me happy.

Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane (via theliteraryjournals)

[theliteraryjournals]

But I must admit I miss you terribly. The world is too quiet without you nearby.

Lemony Snicket, The Beatrice Letters (via theliteraryjournals)

[thelovejournals]

Sometimes people hurt more than they can handle… And sometimes they don’t know how to ask for help. They’re so caught up in their own pain, they end up hurting everyone around them.

Rebecca Donovan, Barely Breathing (via thelovejournals)

[theliteraryjournals]

I like it when it rains hard. It sounds like white noise everywhere, which is like silence but not empty.

Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (via theliteraryjournals)

[thelovejournals]

Some people bring out the worst in you, others bring out the best, and then there are those remarkably rare, addictive ones who bring out the most. Of everything. They make you feel so alive that you’d follow them straight into hell…

Karen Marie Moning, Shadowfever (via thelovejournals)

[wnq-writers]

I know now that we never get over great losses; we absorb them, and they carve us into different, often kinder, creatures.

Gail Caldwell, Let’s Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship (via wnq-writers)