When someone you love makes compassion, kindness, forgiveness, respect and God an option, you can be sure they have made you an option, as well.

— Shannon L. Alder

When someone you loved finds no flattery in the gift you gave them then you must ask yourself, 'What was worth loving?

— Shannon L. Alder

I don't feel like a person at all: I am something to be loaded and unloaded, like a sofa or a cuckoo clock. I am something to be tossed into a junkyard, thrown into the river, if necessary. I don't feel real anymore. I feel like I could disappear.

— Gillian Flynn