Detachment Quote by H.J. Brues

“[...] and the love he felt at that moment, truer than all subsequent loves because it never had to survive.”

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“[...] you're willing to look past things and to give people second chances. But the thing is, Rose, some people don't deserve them.”

— Rebecca Serle

“Feelings are fleeting, no matter how earth-shattering they seem; they never last, always change.”

— Gena Showalter

“Broken things can be made whole again. Perhaps not as they were before, but maybe stronger this time.”

— Carrie Ryan

“But sometimes, the things you wanted most were the things that would destroy you.”

— Cynthia Eden

“In that case, it^s best to sweep up the pieces and throw them away, because what was broken will never be the same again”

— Paulo Coelho

“Afterward I remembered these things very clearly, with that longing we feel sometimes to recover a state of life that we have lost for…

— Barry Unsworth

“But sometimes you can spend a lot of sorrow trying to change things for the better, when what was first was best. Its only…

— Marisa Silver

“Sometimes when we lose something of importance what we have left becomes even more precious.”

— Victoria Alexander

“Things were not as they seemed. The known world was shifting, reforming. Everything he’d taken as a given, a fact, as real and unquestioned,…

— Louise Penny

“happiness and love were fragile things. And we should be thankful for what we have when we have it.”

— Brenna Aubrey

“Maybe we lost the things we loved then so we could survive losing everything else.”

— Susan Pfferr