But then you Read

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
― James Baldwin

You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
― James Baldwin