Monica Hesse Quotes

My heart will still ache sometimes. Maybe more often than not. I think it's possible to be healed without feeling whole.

Lucky has become such a relative term, when the standards to meet it involve only not being treated like a criminal in your own home city.

The absence of pain is not the same as the presence of happiness".

But when it comes down to it, we all die alone.

Maybe we can't barter our feelings away, trading good deeds for bad ones and expecting to become whole.

As economies change, as landscapes change, nostalgia is the only good America will never stop producing. We gorge on it ourselves and pass it down to generations.

Sometimes hope can be poisonous.

We need girls who are pretty so the soldiers don't notice that they're also smart and brave and working against them

I found a girl who wasn't the girl I was looking for. I let go of a friend I'll still miss every day. I'll go back to work. I'll get better. I'll get better slowly. I'll find all the secret, hidden things.

It is the greatest tragedy and the greatest beauty of a relationship: that at some level, the person you are closest to will always be a total friggin' mystery.

I would care that someone understood we were flawed and scarred and doing the best we could in this war. We were wrapped up in things that were so much bigger than ourselves. We didn't know. We didn't mean to. It wasn't our fault.

Isn't love the opposite of rational?

When things come to an end in a way you didn't expect, in a way you never could have imagined, do they really come to an end? Does it mean you should keep searching, for better answers, for ones that don't keep you up at night? Or does it mean it's time to make peace?

None of these are the miracles I was looking for. But they're miracles nonetheless

But I suppose love doesn't stop, even in wars. There's only so much time a day that you can spend being terrified of something before your instinct to feel natural human emotions would kick in.

But I supposed love doesn't stop, even in wars.

Girls in love will do desperate and creative things.

Tow best friends meeting on the street to say so many things at once: I betrayed you, I love you, I want to save you, I'm sorry. All around Europe, people are dying by the hundreds of thousands. And here, in my city, the Nazis slaughtered a family because of events that started with love and jealousy and a slip of the tongue.

We must love the people in front of us. We must forgive ourselves for the things we did to survive. The things we broke. The things that broke us.