Hazel Hayes Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. I pictured the couple we might someday become. And in my mind, in that moment at least, they lived happily ever after. Out of Love

2. In the days that followed I thought about grief, how nothing and nobody can prepare you for it. People tell you their stories, but until you experience it for yourself you can’t possibly understand. There’s no going around it. Or under or over it. You’ve got to go through it. It will hit you in waves so enormous that you are smacked against the shore. It will permeate the very fabric of your life, so that everything you do is stained by it; every moment, good or bad, is steeped in sadness for a while. Even the nice moments, the achievements and successes, are tinged with the knowledge that someone or something is missing. And the first time that you smile or laugh, you catch yourself, because happiness feels so unfamiliar.

3. Don't be ridiculous,' said Maya, 'You can't fail at a relationship. That's like getting off of a roller coaster and saying you failed because the ride is over. Things end. That doesn't mean the experience wasn't worth it. Out of Love

4. There is no more obvious indicator of the passage of time than children growing in your absence.

5. We are both wounded in our own way and, like a pair of tectonic plates shifting over time, our wounds will gradually grate against one another’s, causing damage at a glacial pace. Neither of us will notice until it’s too late. Out of Love