You Were The First Love I Hoped Would Be My Last

“As Romeo is dying Juliet says ‘I am willing to die to remain by your side’ and love was never a static place of rest but the last second of euphoria while throwing yourself out from a 20 store window to be able to say ‘I flew before I hit the ground’, and it was glorious. Don’t be sorry. The fall wa…”

— Charlotte Erickson, goodreads.com

“In the summer I stretch out on the shore And think of you Had I told the sea What I felt for you, It would have left its shores, Its shells, Its fish, And followed me.”

— Nizar Qabbani, consciouslivingfoundation.org

“I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart) I am never without it (anywhere I go you go, my dear; and whatever is done by only me is your doing, my darling)”

— E. E Cummings, poetryfoundation.org

“your name is scrawled on restaurant napkins and leather bus seats in the inside of library books and carved into trees maybe one day you’ll see and know I was there maybe one day you’ll see and fall back in love with me”

— Leigh, nothingwithoutwords.tumblr.com

“They say in this case the first love will be the last love so what if the boy that got away thinks of you as the girl that got away and what if fate pulls this trick on you too?”

— Annelies, hellomissmabel.tumblr.com

“Somewhere in this world is a man who loves you, who understands how precious and clever and kind you are. A man who has always loved you and, to his detriment, suspects he always will.”

— Jojo Moyes

“You were at the age where you could fall in love with a girl over an expression, over a gesture.”

— Junot Dìaz, amazon.com

“For you, a thousand times over’”

— Khaled Hosseini, amazon.com

“It never occurred to me that you could love someone the same way after he was gone, that I would continue to feel such love and gratitude alongside the terrible sorrow, the grief so heavy that at times I shiver and moan under the weight of it.”

— Lucy Kalanithi, amazon.com

“Stay for me. Stay with me. There will never be anyone else. Not in my bed. Not in my life. And not in my heart.”

— Rachel Vincent, amazon.com

“In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.”

— Maya Angelou, wattpad.com

“For the two of us, home isn’t a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.”

— Stephanie Perkins, amazon.com

“Sometimes love means letting go when you want to hold on tighter.”

— Melissa Marr, amazon.com

“Unfortunately, years of schooling can’t teach you about recovering from heartbreak the way experience can.”

— Melissa Hill, nytimes.com

“But now, more than three years after our first kiss and more than a year after our first time, I’m still not over the possibility of him, the possibility of us. And he has no idea.”

— Jordana Narin, nytimes.com

“You keep making poetry out of people who never stayed as if all the pretty words in the world can cover up the heartache.”

— Genefe Navilon, letters-to-the-sea.tumblr.com

“You’re the one I want beside me for every little thing—from Tuesday nights after work to Saturday mornings curled up on the couch, from trips to the corner store to vacations across the world, from nights when I startle from bad dreams to afternoons when I come home from a run, glistening with sweat…”

— Marisa Donnelly, thoughtcatalog.com

“I say it's over. But how do I say goodbye? When you are the man that I love And can't live without.”

— Mirtha Michelle Castro, amazon.com

“I remember that feeling of skin. It's strange to remember touch more than thought. But my fingers still tingle with it.”

— Lucy Christopher, amazon.com

“Afterward she lies nestled against me, her hair tickling my face. I stroke her lightly, memorizing her body. I want her to melt into me, like butter on toast. I want to absorb her and walk around for the rest of my days with her encased in my skin.”

— Sara Gruen, amazon.com

“Love is a shooting star that lands in your heart and lives forever.”

— Danielle Steel, amazon.com

“I fell in love with her when we were together, then fell deeper in love with her in the years we were apart.”

— Nicholas Sparks, amazon.com

“To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.”

— J.K. Rowling, amazon.com

“Rise up, wise up, say it loud. Soul, I will not lie to you. I’m all alone. I’m still missing you, missing you, missing you.”

— Tegan and Sara Quin, play.spotify.com

“I miss those kisses and the way I used to sleep in your warm hug. I miss the way you made me eat breakfasts and I miss the way you made me laugh. I miss you.”

— Himmilicious, himmilicious.in

“Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.”

— William Cowper, poemhunter.com

“He taught me how to love, but he didn’t teach me how to stop.”

— Anonymous, jarofquotes.com

“We broke up but love doesn't go anywhere.”

— Ella Dawson, medium.com