There were times my heart broke into painful fragments then my soul perseveringly gathered an ocean of strength on my voyage towards renewal.

I can see his pain, see it in the way he runs his fingers through his hair, over and over, and I understand what it costs him to hide it all.

Sometimes terror and pain are not the best levers; deception, when it works, is the most elegant and the least expensive manipulation of all.

Pain is pain...Just because one person's problem is less traumatic than another's doesn't mean they're required to hurt less.

But there was nothing but the cold, hard truth that loving someone and being loved back was only the beginning, not the end, of all the pain.

Life is paradoxical, but I believe that I could also be the same person I am today, if life would have cut me with happiness instead of pain.

...burying themselves in his arm was more about feeling his love in the confusion, in the difficulty, than it was about having moved past it.

A SCAR SHOULDN’T REMIND YOU OF HOW YOU GOT HURT AND THE PAIN THAT CAME WITH IT…A SCAR SHOULD SIMPLY REMIND YOU THAT YOU SURVIVED

He was dead. I was fixated on the horrid bite wound on my left forearm. For a long time I watched, hypnotized, as the blood oozed and dripped.

...the older I get, the more I believe that if love is to be judged by most of its visible effects, it looks more like hatred than friendship.

Sometimes it's better to show our vulnerability / pain / regrets so others don't think us impervious / unapproachable - be real / open

Some say the ocean roars,I hear it ever weeping.Weep, ocean, weep for those gone before.Weep, O sea, for the open graves that fill your shore.

When pain brings you down, don't be silly, don't close your eyes and cry, you just might be in the best position to see the sun shine.

People say love isn’t supposed to be painful. But maybe the best things in life are the ones that hurt the most after they’re gone.

We run through the remnants of our pain, and more importantly, we run for our present and for our future.Together we kick heartbreak's ass.