Marissa

“You keep storing up all that anger and grief. Eventually it spills over. Or you drown in it.”

“I have lost and loved and won and cried myself to the person I am today.”

“Life is too short to wake up with regrets. So love the people who treat you right. Forget about those who don’t. Believe everything happens for a reason. If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said life would be easy, they just promised it would most likely be worth it.”

“I considered suicide, but I felt a strange fondness for my body, my life. Scarred as they were, they were mine.”

“At your weakest, you end up showing more strength; at your lowest, you are suddenly lifted higher than you’ve ever been. They all border one another, these opposites and show how quickly we can be altered.”

“Goodbye,“ said the fox. “And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.””

“She felt everything too deeply, it was like the world was too much for her.”

“The only way to get what you really want, is to know what you really want. And the only way to know what you really want, is to know yourself. And the only way to know yourself, is to be yourself. And the only way to be yourself is to listen to your heart.”

“The moon understands what it means to be human. Uncertain. Alone. Cratered by imperfections.”