sky between branches...

"There are feelings you don't understand unless you get hurt and cause problems. And there are feelings you understand for the first time after falling to the bottom of life. You resist beautiful things, but after being beat up, you start to love beauty for the first time. Pain needs kindness, and for the darkness to stand out, it needs the sun. You can't make light of either of them. You can't say either of them are worthless..."

"Mingling with people, hurting them, getting hurt by them...that's how you learn about others, and about yourself..."

-from "Fruits Basket" (フルーツバスケット, Furūtsu Basuketto) by Takaya Natsuki (高屋 奈月)