“People belong in your life by natural vibration, not forced will or expectation.” “Once you live a good story, you get a taste for a kind of meaning in life, and you can’t go back to being normal; you can’t go back to meaningless scenes stitched together by the forgettable thread of wasted time.”

Donald Miller, D., in A Million Miles in a Thousand Years

"We will never be the same again. But here's a little secret for you - no one is ever the same thing again after anything. You are never the same twice, and much of your unhappiness comes from trying to pretend that you are. Accept that you are different each day, and do so joyfully, recognizing it for the gift it is. Work within the desires and goals of the person you are currently, until you aren't that person anymore, and everything changes once again." 

in WELCOME TO NIGHT VALE: EPISODE 75: THROUGH THE NARROW PLACE

“… here comes midnight with a dead moon in its jaw…” 

Jason Molina, lyric from “Farewell Transmission”, by Song: Ohia, from The Magnolia Electric Co. (Secretly Canadian, 2003)

Keep busy with survival.
Imitate the trees.
Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember
nothing stays the same for long,
not even pain.
Sit it out.
Let it all pass.
Let it go.

Sarton, M., (1912 - 1995) 

“You are mine in between sequences of code, in between time stamps and every time I pick up the phone. Find me in between bits of darkness developing in the back of your mind and rays of sunlight peeking through sections of your bicycle as you ride to work. Come back for me. Find me.”

Kistler, R. in Come Back