Amy Engel, The Revolution Of Ivy Quotes

Now I understand - how sleep allows you to forget, but your pain wakes with the dawn, worse because for a split second you don't remember what you've suffered.

I don't understand how the pain of losing him can be a pale shadow in comparison to the pain of finding him again.

But recognizing the ridiculousness of an emotion and being able to master it are two very different things, I'm finding.

And maybe that's love, too - feeling the other person's hurts like your own.

No one controls who we turn into but us.

The scars are just something that happened to me. They aren't me. Not anymore.