“IT'S OKAY to be sad. IT'S OKAY to feel pain. IT'S OKAY to be vulnerable. We are made to have emotions. Don't be afraid to let it out.”— Nadine Lustre, instagram.com
“My heart is still crusty with emotional scabs and I don’t want them pulled off...”— David Mitchell, amazon.com
“That was the worst part about having cancer, sometimes: The physical evidence of disease separates you from other people.”— John Green, Hazel, amazon.com
“The pain was always there, pulling me inside of myself, demanding to be felt. It always felt like I was waking up from the pain when something in the world outside of me suddenly required my comment or attention.”— John Green, Hazel, amazon.com
“I am crying, too, because I'm feeling things at last. I'm feeling not just the physical pain, but all that I have lost, and it is profound and catastrophic and will leave a crater in me that nothing will ever fill. But I'm also feeling all that I have in my life, which, includes what I have lost, as…”— Gayle Forman, Mia, amazon.com
“Splashing water on her face, she glanced up into the mirror and regarded her reflection with dismay. The thing they never tell you about sin, she thought, is how it returns you, over and over, to the same terrible place, a precursor of eternity in hell.”— David Corbett, narrativemagazine.com