“If goodness can't come from bad things, it makes bad things unbearable.”
David Levithan book Love Is the Higher Law
Source: Love Is the Higher Law
“The bad things can't matter more than the good things”
— Cassandra Clare, book Lord of Shadows
Source: Lord of Shadows
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