Trauma is personal. It does not disappear if it is not validated.
Emerging with Wings: A True Story of Lies, Pain, and the Love That HealsYou do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.
The Fault in Our StarsThere is nowhere morning does not go.
Glass, Paper, Beans: Revolutions on the Nature and Value of Ordinary ThingsThe past does not define me, it ignites me. The past is not a piece of me, it has placed me.
Barefoot ChristianityA man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.
Miguel de Unamuno