"Have you ever gotten so sad that it actually feels GOOD to do something you know will make you even sadder?"

— Hillary Frank, I Can't Tell You 🎄

"I was running in circles, I hurt myself, just to find my purpose. Everything was so worthless, I didn't deserve this, but to me you were perfect."

— Hollywood 🎄

"...alone is such a nebulous state when one is queen."

— Rae Carson, The Crown of Embers 🎄

"I will always love you Drizzt Do'Urden my life was full and without regret because I knew you and was completed by you. Sleep well, my love."

— R.A. Salvatore 🎄

"What exists beneath the sea?Id always pictured it in colors of emerald and aquamarine, where black velvet fish with sequined eyes swim among plankton.But, when my eyes adjust, I see gray stones, lost anchors, wet wood, buttons, hooks, and eyes, the salem witches who wouldnt float, stars and stripes, missing vessels, windup toys, the souls of Romeo and Juliet, peaches, cream, pistons, screams, cages of ribs and birds, tunnels, nutcracker soldiers, satin bows, drugstore signs, Pandora box ripped open at its hinges."

— Kelly Easton, The Life History of a Star 🎄

"Being sad with the right people is better than being happy with the wrong ones."

— Philippos 🎄

"Jolly felt salty tears on her lips, and for the first time in her life it occurred to her that sorrow tasted exactly like the sea."

— Kai Meyer, Pirate Emperor 🎄

"I lit up like a Christmas tree-Augustus Waters"

— John Green, The Fault in Our Stars 🎄

"He will be someone who is defined, first and always, by what he is missing."

— Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life 🎄

"I am six years old and instead of celebrating with birthday cakes, I chew on a piece of charcoal."

— Loung Ung 🎄

"The more you start to love someone, the more you ache when theyre gone, and maybe its that middle ground that hurts the most, when you can see them and still not feel like youre near enough."

— Robin Benway, Emmy & Oliver 🎄

"You are all the colours in one, at full brightness."

— Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places 🎄

"Sadness flies on the wings of the morning, and out of the heart of darkness comes the light."

— Jean Giraudoux 🎄

"Where do we record the passing of wildlife? Who mourns the silent deaths of the small?"

— O.R. Melling 🎄

"I was abused my family was the "brady bunch"

— Dave Pelzer, A Child Called "It" 🎄

"This was the lesson we kept learning over and over and over, the lesson our mother was best capable of teaching us. Lovewhatever else it might or might not bewas fleeting. Love stormed into your life and occupied it, it took over every corner of your soul, made itself comfortable, made itself wanted, then treasured, then necessary, love did all of this and then it did next the only thing it had left to do, it retreated, it vanished, it left no trace of itself. Love was horrifying."

— Christie Hodgen 🎄

"In Hollywood, we're always looking for the next big thing that will help us feel fulfilled. As actors, we're always trying to be someone else. Things like therapy help us learn how to be ourselves. Sometimes."

— Jen Calonita, There's No Place Like Home 🎄

"And you find some way to surviveAnd you find out you don't have to be happy at all..To be happy you're alive."

— Brian Yorkey 🎄

"David looked at me, then, the regret plain on his face. No matter what I said, we both knew the hard truth. We do our best. We try. And usually, it makes no difference at all"

— Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm 🎄

"One by one they dissapeared Pumpkin last of all. The last May saw of himwas his sad face under his waving tuft of hair and then his long fingers,reaching out toward her for a hug that would never happen now as they turned around the bend."

— Jodi Lynn Anderson, May Bird Among the Stars 🎄