#bitter

There’s no such thing as a bitter person who keeps the bitterness to himself. ↗

— Erwin W. Lutzer

#forgiveness

A cynical modification of letting go doesn't bring forgiveness, it's when, once you forgive, will you be able to let go. ↗

— Anthony Liccione

#cynical #forgiveness #letting-go #sugarcoat #forgiveness

There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall. ↗

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#beat #bitter #days #freedom #head

No," I say. "I didn't know that," and as I say it I feel flooded with bitterness at all the things Ingrid kept secret from me. ↗

— Nina LaCour

#friendship #regret #suicide #friendship

Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought. ↗

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

#bitter #entropy #heretics #human #human thought

You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices. I hope she likes hers. ↗

— John Green

#hurt #inspirational #love #inspirational

If there is an afterlife, I want my soul intact. And then maybe I'll see you there."I smiled, somehow calm now that I was facing something inevitable. I was getting the good-bye I'd always wanted. - Nikki ↗

— Brodi Ashton

#life-and-death #death

Everythin' seems ter happen ter you, doesn' it? ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#jealousy #jealousy

When criticism doesn't make sense, it is usually coming from a different place. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#book-critics #jealousy #jealousy

Would 'sorry' have made any difference? Does it ever? It's just a word. One word against a thousand actions. ↗

— Sarah Ockler

#bittersweet #regrets #sarah-ockler #sorry #action