77 Quotes by Dorothy Koomson

When you love someone, them being hurt is worse than any pain that you could suffer.

If we’re going to change the world for the better, kids need to know that they can by feeling good about who they are and helping others.

Old pain doesn’t completely die. Time may soothe it, stoke over it until it looks like it has healed, but it never dies properly. It stays with you, it lives in the cracks of your soul, waiting for moments when you feel true pain.

He seems to have become a part of my life and I’m disappointed if I don’t see him. If I get to the end of the day without seeing someone who reminds me of him, I feel as if a dull shadow has fallen over me.

Crying was an acceptable outlet, even if it made you feel raw and empty inside, it was still better than that build up of resentment that grew from not letting your emotions out. – My Bestfriend’s Girl -.

I think what love is changes over time, as you grow older, learn more, do more.

To know other people thought he’d made a mistake vindicated me. I wasn’t a bad girlfriend, he was simply going through a period of temporary insanity and he’d come to his senses soon.

It’s the ones you love the most who can lift you in an instant, and destroy you without trying.

But that’s the thing about all of this,” he says gently but urgently, “we survive. After each known down, each earth shattering blow, we get up again. Even though we walk through hell, and it feels like all we do is walk through hell, we do eventually make it to the otherside. Scarred. Mostly broken. But we survive. And then we start to rebuild ourselves. We’re never the same, but we do rebuild ourselves. Because something like this is just another way in which we change. We all have to change.