Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.

— Peter Van Houten, The Fault in Our Stars (via aneanti)

Once the world has hurt you enough, you reach a quota for pain and you stop feeling it. And then you can sceam at the sky because there’s nothing left for it to throw at you. Or so you suppose.

— Thu Huong Ha

That was the thing about being alone, in theory or in principle. Whatever happened-good, bad, or anywhere in between-it was always, if nothing else, all your own

— Sarah Dessen

Needing was so easy: it came naturally, like breathing. Being needed by someone else, though, that was the hard part. But as with giving help and accepting it, we had to do both to be made complete-like links overlapping to form a chain, or a lock finding the right key

— Sarah Dessen

I like to see people reunited, I like to see people run to each other, I like the kissing and the crying, I like the impatience, the stories that the mouth can’t tell fast enough, the ears that aren’t big enough, the eyes that can’t take in all of the change, I like the hugging, the bringing together, the end of missing someone.

— Jonathan Safran Foer (via adessive)

(via jarrodis)

What is family? They were the people who claimed you. In good, in bad, in parts or in whole, they were the ones who showed up, who stayed in there, regardless. It wasn’t just about blood relations or shared chromosomes, but something wider, bigger. We had many families over time. Our family of origin, the family we created, and the groups you moved through while all of this was happening: friends, lovers, sometimes even strangers. None of them perfect, and we couldn’t expect them to be. You can’t make any one person your world. The trick was to take what each could give you and build your world from it

— Sarah Dessen

But now, I was beginning to wonder if you didn’t always have to choose between turning away for good or rushing in deeper. In the moments that it really counts, maybe it’s enough- more than enough, even- just to be there

— Sarah Dessen

Not everything’s perfect, especially at the beginning. And it’s all right to have a little bit of regret every once in a while. It’s when you feel it all the time and can’t do anything about it… that’s when you get into trouble

— Sarah Dessen

I drag myself out of nightmares each morning and find there’s no relief in waking….Better not to give into it. It takes ten times as long to put you back together as it does to fall apart.

— Mocking Jay

coherent-incoherent: At the moment, it’s pretty beautiful.