#loss

One month flies by when you're falling love with the woman you're using for sex. Two is an eternity when the woman you love leaves you. ↗

— Christina Lauren

#love #beauty

How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#materialism #business

His name was Theo. ↗

— Cinda Williams Chima

#han #loss #magret #name #ragger

A small profit it better than a big loss ↗

— Ron Rash

#choices #life #loss #profit #business

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

— John Green

#grief #loss #revelation #change

It’s difficult to ever go back to the same places or people. You turn away, even for a moment, and when you turn back around, everything’s changed. ↗

— Gabrielle Zevin

#change

It was so damn hard to find love in this world, to locate someone who could make you feel that there was a reason you'd been put on this earth. A child, I imagined, was the purest form of that. A child was the love you didn't have to look for, didn't have to prove anything to, didn't have to worry about losing. Which is why, when it happened, it hurt so badly. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#loss #love #change

There is no "slippery slope" toward loss of liberties, only a long staircase where each step downward must first be tolerated by the American people and their leaders. ↗

— Alan K. Simpson

#american people #downward #each #first #leaders

You never knew the last time you were seeing someone. You didn't know when the last argument happened, or the last time you had sex, or the last time you looked into their eyes and thanked God they were in your life. After they were gone? That was all you thought about. Day and night. ↗

— J.R. Ward

#loss #love #shit-happens #suck-it-up #life

The Way It Is There’s a thread you follow. It goes among things that change. But it doesn’t change. People wonder about what you are pursuing. You have to explain about the thread. But it is hard for others to see. While you hold it you can’t get lost. Tragedies happen; people get hurt or die; and you suffer and get old. Nothing you do can stop time’s unfolding. You don’t ever let go of the thread. ~ William Stafford ~ ↗

— William Stafford

#loss #poetry #change