"We do not remember days; we remember moments."

Cesare Pavese

"Why are you doing this to yourself? When something bad happens, why do you have to pick at it until it bleeds all over again?"

Jodi Picoult, Salem Falls

"It’s amazing how words can do that, just shred your insides apart. Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me - such bullshit."

Lauren Oliver, Delirium

"Making you regret what you did to me is not ‘me winning’. It’s everyone still losing."

I Wrote This For You: The Expanding Distance Between Two Points

"Remembering is easy. It’s forgetting that’s hard."

Brodi Ashton, Everneath

"All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair."

Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven

"You know someone’s right for you when the things they don’t have to say are even more important than the things they do."

Jodi Picoult, Sing You Home