„You couldn’t have strength without weakness, you couldn’t have light without dark, you couldn’t have love without loss“

— Jodi Picoult

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„Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.“
— Theodor W. Adorno
„Believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.“
— Rainer Maria Rilke
„If he touched her, he couldn't talk to her, if he loved her he couldn't leave, if he spoke he couldn't listen, if he fought he couldn't win.“
— Arundhati Roy
„How to seperate the humiliation from the loss, that's the catch. You can never be sure if what tortures you is the pain of being without someone you love or the embarrassment of admitting that you have been rejected.“
— Stephen Fry
„It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but that you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.“
— Arthur Conan Doyle
„This is how the girl who couldn't speak and the man who couldn't see fell in love.“
— Margaret Atwood
„She had to face the fact that she couldn't protect everyone she loved. She couldn't solve every problem.“
— Rick Riordan
„It is stupid to grieve for the loss of a girl friend: you might never have met her, so you can do without her.“
— Cesare Pavese