At the heart of all great art is an essential melancholy.

Federico García Lorca

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To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.

You really didn't see the sadness or the longing unless you already knew it was there. But that was the trick, wasn't it? Everyone had their disappointment and their baggage; only, some people carried it in their inside pockets and not on their backs.

Maggie Stiefvater

I wonder if that's just how it feels to miss someone so bad? Like being stabbed in the gut a little bit, each time you think of them.

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.

We were together. I forget the rest.

I thought that jealousy was an idea. It isn't. It's a pain. But I didn't feel as they do in a Broadway melodrama. I didn't want to kill anybody. I just wanted to die.

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