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“How to stop time: kiss.
How to travel in time: read.
How to escape time: music.
How to feel time: write.
How to release time: breathe.”
― Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive

“Hate is a pointless emotion to have inside you. It is like eating a scorpion to punish it for stinging you.”
― Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“Dumbledore watched her fly away, and as her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape, and his eyes were full of tears.
"After all this time?"
"Always," said Snape.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“Death ends a life, not a relationship.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson

“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
― Michael Cunningham, The Hours

“Unbeing dead isn't being alive.”
― E. E. Cummings

“Life is for the living.
Death is for the dead.
Let life be like music.
And death a note unsaid.”
― Langston Hughes, The Collected Poems

“One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.”
― Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven

“Holding anger is a poison...It eats you from inside...We think that by hating someone we hurt them...But hatred is a curved blade...and the harm we do to others...we also do to ourselves.”
― Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven

“This is the greatest gift God can give you: to understand what happened in your life. To have it explained. It is the peace you have been searching for.”
― Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Meniti Bianglala

“Life has to end. Love doesn't.”
― Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven

“In order to move on, you must understand why you felt what you did and why you no longer need to feel it.”
― Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven

“That's because no one is born with anger. And when we die, the soul is freed of it. But now, here, in order to move on, you must understand why you felt what you did, and why you no longer need to feel it.”
― Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven

“the pain we suffer is a way to make us appreciate what comes next.”
― Mitch Albom, The First Phone Call from Heaven

“What happened next depends on how much you believe.”
― Mitch Albom, The First Phone Call from Heaven

“What in life can love not penetrate? Mabel Hubbard, deaf since childhood, gave Alexander Bell a piano as a wedding gift and asked that he play it for her every day, as if his music could pierce her silence. Decades later, at Bell’s deathbed, it was his wife who made the sounds, saying the words, “Don’t leave me,” while he, no longer able to talk, used sign language to answer, No.”
― Mitch Albom, The First Phone Call from Heaven

“Sully: I never said good-bye
Giselle: Such a needless word when you love somebody”
― Mitch Albom, The First Phone Call from Heaven

“Fear is how you lose your life . . . a little bit at a time. . . . What we give to fear, we take away from . . . faith.”
― Mitch Albom, First Phone Call from Heaven

“Be crazy! But learn how to be crazy without being the center of attention. Be brave enough to live different.”
― Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die

“You have two choices, to control your mind or to let your mind control you.”
― Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die

“It’s okay how some stories leave off without an ending. Life doesn’t always deliver the one you would expect.”
― Adam Silvera, More Happy Than Not

“I’m more happy than not.

Don’t forget me.”
― Adam Silvera, More Happy Than Not

“you can't always choose who you're going to be”
― Adam Silvera, More Happy Than Not

“People who are strangers to liquor are incapable of talking about literature.”
― Mo Yan

“Where there's life, death is inevitable. Dying's easy; it's living that's hard. The harder it gets, the stronger the will to live. And the greater the fear of death, the greater the struggle to keep on living.”
― Mo Yan, Big Breasts & Wide Hips

“we have been dying
since we got here
and forgot to enjoy the view

- live fully”
― Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers

“If I'm not the love of your life
I'll be the greatest loss instead”
― Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers