Not sad, but not happy.

“Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.”

“If you see beauty in something, don’t wait for others to agree.”

“You’re not a kid anymore. You have the right to choose your own life. You can start again. If you want a cat, all you have to do is choose a life in which you can have a cat. It’s simple. It’s your right.”

“There must be quite a few things a hot bath won’t cure, but I don’t know many of them.”

“To all those who ask what I do in the bathroom for an hour: 1)Singing concert 2)Roast battles 3)Comebacks for an argument that happened years ago 4)Scenarios 5)Actually bathing”

“You can run away from a lot of things in life, but you can’t run away from yourself. And the key to happiness is to understand and accept who you are.”

“Life goes on whether you choose to move on and take a chance in the unknown or stay behind, locked in the past, thinking of what could’ve been. I don’t want to live in the past anymore. I’m so lonely here, there’s nothing for me here anymore.”

“It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime.”

“Meeting her again was like finally opening the window to let some fresh air into a stuffy house. Like seeing the sun again after being holed up inside a dark room for days. But in the years spent apart, we’d lost our rhythm. We’d lost our ease. A strained silence filled the space where there should have been exciting stories, secrets whispered behind hands, small talk about work and the weather. When I lowered my gaze to the floor, she threw back her head, closed her eyes, and laughed. It was all it took to make the air a little less heavy, to make my breath come a little easier, and yet I was so scared in that moment. I hadn’t seen her for years, hadn’t talked to her, had barely thought about her in the last months, and still I would have recognised that laughter anywhere. It reminded me of times long past, of wonderful times, but I didn’t say that. “I missed that sound. I missed you,” I thought, but I did not say that, either. My mouth stayed shut. I was terrified, even then. That we would grow close once more, just so you could leave me behind again. I knew you wouldn’t stay, not for me. You never did. “You haven’t changed at all,” you said, your gorgeous smile widening, the dimple in your cheek deepening. Yes, I hadn’t. At least not in all the ways I felt about you. But you hadn’t, either. And that was why we would never ever be close again.”

“Happiness does not depend on what happens outside of you, but on what happens inside of you.”

“If flowers can teach themselves how to bloom after winter passes, so can you.”

“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds.”