“I shot up,now as angry and frusterated as him.I had a feeling if i stayed, we’d both snap. In and undertone, I murmured,”this isnt over.i won’t give up on you.”” I’ve given up on you,”he said back,voice also soft. “Love fades. Mine has.”

“The fruit of empty hopes is more bitter than the saddest truth.”

“Tears are God’s way of cleansing the heart.”

“What a sad story, I thought for so long. Not that I now think it was happy. But I think it is true, and thus the question of whether it is sad or happy has no meaning whatever.”

“Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand – but tell it. Resign yourself to the lifelong sadness that comes from never ­being satisfied.”

“Grief, no matter how you try to cater to its wail, has a way of fading away.”

“The person you hurt the most in this world was the person that brought you into it.”

“A teardrop has every right to live just as much as a single raindrop.”

“A raindrop carries hopes & expectations, but a teardrop carries happiness & sadness.”

“Tears are what makes us one with the clouds.”

“And empty words are evil.”

“The trick. . .is to find the balance between the bright colors of humor and the serious issues of identity, self-loathing, and the possibility for intimacy and love when it seems no longer possible or, sadder yet, no longer necessary.”

“One of the greatest tragedies in life is to lose your own sense of self and accept the version of you that is expected by everyone else.”

“The moral of the story is even though that seemed like the end of the world back then, right now I can look back on it and laugh. And if anyone is going through something similar right now just know it will get better.”