"…but then I realized that I was holding onto something that didn't exist anymore. That the person I missed didn't exist anymore. People change. The things we like and dislike change. And you can wish they wouldn't all day long but that never works."—Fixing Delilah, Sarah Ockler

"I am learning everyday to allow the space between where I am and where I want to be inspire me and not terrify me."—Tracee Ellis Ross

"Destruction is a form of creation."—Donnie Darko

"So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers."—Jorge Luis Borges

"I survived because the fire inside me burned brighter than the fire around me."—Joshua Graham

"Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall."— The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald

“There are millions of people in this world, and the spirits will see that most of them, you never have to meet, but there are one or two that you are tied to, and the spirits will cross back and forth, threading so many knots until they catch and you finally get it right."—Picture Perfect, Jodi Piccoult

"Harry Potter isn't real? Oh no! Wait, wait, what do you mean by real? Is this video blog real? Am I real if you can see me and hear me, but only through the internet? Are you real if I can read your comment, but I don't know who you are or what your name is or where you're from or what you look like or how old you are? I know all of those things about Harry Potter. Maybe Harry Potter's real and you're not."—John Green

"People always say that it hurts at night and apparently screaming into your pillow at 3 a.m. is the romantic equivalent of being heartbroken… but sometimes it's 9 a.m. on a Tuesday morning and you're standing at the kitchen bench waiting for the toast to pop and the smell of dusty sunlight and earl gray tea makes you miss them so much you don't know what to do with your hands."—"On Missing Them," Rosie Scanlan

"There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice."—The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald

"I don't think feelings change, nor people, I think situations do. I know that it's possible to dislike someone after loving them so much or to love someone after feeling so much hate towards them but, it's not because people change, it's because it's not the same. It's because something made you think differently, something opened your eyes. Something caused you to see everything the way it is at last. It's like days. Days can be cloudy, or days can be sunny. Days don't change, the weather does. And nothing can play a part in that or fix it, they can just let it be."—Unknown

"I learned a lot about falling in love when I fell out of love, I learned a lot about being a friend when I was alone."—"Never Saw It Coming," Tigers Jaw

“He smiles at me and suddenly I am 17 again—the year I realize that love doesn't follow the rule, the year I understood that nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable."—My Sister's Keeper, Jodi Piccoult

“The best way out is always through."—"A Servant to Servants," Robert Frost

“I guess by now I should know enough about loss to realize that you never really stop missing someone-you just learn to live around the huge gaping hole of their absence."—Evermore, Alyson Noel