“Most of our losses began the day that we began neglecting what we have now lost.”
“There is no such thing as quality time without quantity time. The idea that you could spend one hour a night with your children and have the same effect on them as a stay at home parent spending 12‐16 hours a day with them is pure nonsense.
The same logic works for your marriage.”
Source: From Misery to Happiness: A poetic journey through love, loss, and second chances.
“If I have sinned so much, if I have been, since then, so solitary, if my soul has taken such a swirling and solitary movement, if I have doubted everything, if I have been a fatalist, and have been a pessimistic child who awaits death every day, and who almost seeks it out, if I have opened myself slowly and late to happiness, and if I am still a somber man, incapable of laughing whole-heartedly, it is because you left me that June 24th upon that road.
But if I have believed in eternal realities . . . if I have thrust myself toward them, it is also because I was alone, because you were no longer there to be my God, to fill my heart with your abundant and dominating life.”
“the entire world is a dreadful collection of memoranda that she did exit, and that i have lost her. (heathcliff about catherine, ch. XIX, p. 325)”
Source: Wuthering Heights
“A problem shared, is a problem halved.”
Source: The Truth About My Mother
“Everything in life, including us, can be broken down into its basic elements. Those who understand what likes within them can remake themselves according to their own design.”
Source: The Lost Diary of Venice
“Having no name to call on was having no past; having no past pointed to the fissure between the past and the present. That fissure is represented in the Door of No Return: that place where our ancestors departed one world for another; the Old World for the New. The place where all names were forgotten and all beginnings recast.”
Source: A Map to the Door of No Return
“Às vezes quando acordo esqueço que ela foi embora e aí lembro e meu
coração desaba, tipo quando você erra um degrau ou tropeça no meio-fio.”
Source: My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece
“Suicide is a dark and horrible thought that has hit very close to my life, but if we don’t talk about it, we learn nothing; and if we learn nothing, then the greatest loss in suicide is to the living.”
Source: From Misery to Happiness: A poetic journey through love, loss, and second chances.
“As hard as it is to say, the only lesson I have is to avoid long distance romance if possible. Find a better job at home or move your family. Long distance love can work but the effort is immense, as is the risk.”
Source: From Misery to Happiness: A poetic journey through love, loss, and second chances.