“You will find the way, daughter of the forest. Through grief and pain, through many trials, through betrayal and loss, your feet will walk a straight path.”

“… you have to learn where your pain is. You have to burrow down and find the wound, and if the burden of it is too terrible to shoulder, you have to shout it out; you have to shout for help… And then finally, the way through grief is grieving.”

Jane Hamilton (1957) American novelist

“One heart is not connected to another through harmony alone. They are, instead, linked deeply through their wounds. Pain linked to pain, fragility to fragility. There is no silence without a cry of grief, no forgiveness without bloodshed, no acceptance without a passage through acute loss. That is what lies at the root of true harmony.”

Haruki Murakami book Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

“The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism.”

George Jean Nathan (1882–1958) American drama critic and magazine editor

“Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.”

George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement

“There's no way around grief and loss: you can dodge all you want, but sooner or later you just have to go into it, through it, and, hopefully, come out the other side. The world you find there will never be the same as the world you left.”

Johnny Cash (1932–2003) American singer-songwriter

“You can have more adventure in an hour’s walk through a forest than in a year on a spaceship.”

Poul Anderson book The Enemy Stars

“Wisdom's daughter walks alone,
The mark of Athena burns through Rome.”

Rick Riordan book The Son of Neptune

“The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.”

John Muir (1838–1914) Scottish-born American naturalist and author

“The only way to end grief was to go through it.”

Holly Black book The Darkest Part of the Forest