“When The Worst That Can Happen Has Come And Gone And You’re Still Standing, Remember That You Won.”

“When the worst that can happen has come and gone And you’re still standing, remember that you won.”

— Joan Bauer, Almost Home

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This was the trouble with families. Like invidious doctors, they knew just where it hurt.

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I'm still sitting here and you are still lying there, and there are so many things we should say to each other, but we shall never be able to.

— Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

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While I bathe in cliffside pools

With my calamitous love and insurmountable grief

Take me to the lakes where all the poets went to die

I don't belong, and my beloved, neither do you

— Taylor Swift, the lakes

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One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.

― Khalil Gibran

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Medicine, law, business, engineering, these are all noble pursuits, and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.

— Dead Poets Society

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I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.

― Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

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