“If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?” – Jodi Picoult

“America just broke my heart. I feel really alone.” — Rachel Pearl

“She’s imperfect but she tries
She is good but she lies
She is hard on herself
She is broken and won’t ask for help
She is messy but she’s kind
She is lonely most of the time
She is all of this mixed up
And baked in a beautiful pie
She is gone but she used to be mine.”
– Sara Bareilles, “She Used to Be Mine”

“Every weight loss program, no matter how positively it’s packaged, whispers to you that you’re not right. You’re not good enough. You’re unacceptable, and you need to be fixed.”
― Kim Brittingham

“A flower bloomed already wilting. Beginning its life with an early ending.” ― RJ Gonzales

“I do not love you today. That was yesterday’s mistake.” — Unknown

“I’m choosing happiness over suffering; I know I am. I’m making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.”  ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“You will lose someone you can’t live without, and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly—that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp.” — Anne Lamott

“The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.” — Albert Camus

“Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.” — Anne Frank

“We’ll always fight, but we’ll always make up as well. That’s what sisters do: we argue, we point out each other’s frailties, mistakes, and bad judgment, we flash the insecurities we’ve had since childhood, and then we come back together. Until the next time.” — Lisa See

“I threw everything we had together - the strong roots and stems and leaves and beautiful soft blossoms of sisterhood - into the earth with you. And I was left standing on the edge, so diminished by the loss that I thought I could no longer be there.
All I was allowed to keep for myself was missing you.” — Rosamund Lupton

“Do not stand at my grave and cry;
I am not there. I did not die. “ — Mary Elizabeth Frye

“My Daughter… She’s like an excellent cut diamond that shines brilliantly from the inside out. She’s admired by many, including me! She exudes joy, love, peace, and excellence. She is phenomenally made!” — Stephanie Lahart

“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

“I have not broken your heart—you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine.” — Emily Brontë

“There is nothing more rare, nor more beautiful, than a woman being unapologetically herself, comfortable in her perfect imperfection. To me, that is the true essence of beauty.” — Steve Maraboli

“The only security of all is in a free press.” — Thomas Jefferson