“We all get our hearts broken. We get fucked up and throw up and we cry and listen to sad songs and say we’re never doing that again. But to be alive is to do it again. To love is to risk everything.”— Caroline Kepnes, amazon.comTagged: Love, Broken Hearts, Crying, risks
“Real love brings pain. Real love means sacrifices and hurts and all the thousand shocks of life. But it also means beauty, true beauty.”— Anne Elisabeth Stengl, amazon.comTagged: Love, Pain, Sacrifice
“Love sucks. Sometimes it feels good. Sometimes it's just another way to bleed.”— Laurell K. Hamilton, amazon.comTagged: Love, Love Sucks, Pain
“People like to say love is unconditional, but it's not, and even if it was unconditional, it's still never free. There's always an expectation attached. They always want something in return. Like they want you to be happy or whatever and that makes you automatically responsible for their happiness b…”— Katja Millay, amazon.comTagged: Love, Expectations, Unconditional Love
“Love is deceitful and sublime. In its truest form, it brings out the best in all beings. At its worst, it's a tool used to manipulate and ruin anyone who is stupid enough to hold it.”— Sherrilyn Kenyon, amazon.comTagged: Love, Manipulative, Lies
“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”— Neil Gaiman, amazon.comTagged: Love, Vulnerable, scary
“Love. He recoiled from the very idea. He knew all about love: love was following his best friend around school like a lost puppy, putting up with all manner of shit just to be near him. Love was sobbing himself to sleep night after endless night because the guy who’d taken his virginity hadn’t calle…”— Kate Aaron, amazon.comTagged: Love, Crying, Misery
“Love is the most beautiful of dreams and the worst of nightmares.”— Aman Jassal, amazon.comTagged: Love, Dreams, nightmares
“You know it's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It's always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works very hard to keep things rolling smoothly; someone else sails along for the ride.”— Jodi Picoult, amazon.comTagged: Love, Marriage, Falling In Love
“Well, have you ever known someone who is nice and nasty, who makes you love them one minute and hate them the next? Who makes you feel wonderful and terrible and you never know which one it is going to be?”— Daisy Goodwin, amazon.comTagged: Love, Hate, Misery, Happiness
“What do you do when the one person you want comfort from the most is the one who caused your pain? How can I want so desperately for him to wrap me up in his arms but also want so much for him to leave me alone.”— Amanda Grace, amazon.comTagged: Love, Comfort, angry
“The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.”— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.comTagged: Love, Pain, Forgetting
“Love bleeds you dry until the red organ ceases to beat.”— Sonya Watson, amazon.comTagged: Love, bleeding, Pain
“Some people come in your life and make you believe that your life is incomplete without them. Then they leave, creating a void in your heart that may fill back with time but will never be complete.”— Anmol Rawat, amazon.comTagged: Love, Incomplete, Complete
“However much you wanted someone to want you, there was nothing you could do to make it happen. Whatever you did for them, whatever you gave them, whatever you let them take, it could never be enough. Never enough to be sure. Never enough to satisfy them. Never enough to stop them walking away. Never…”— Manna Francis, amazon.comTagged: Love, Not Enough, Unrequited Love
“I wanted to punch him and understand him at the same time.”— Shannon A. Thompson, amazon.comTagged: Love, Understanding, Anger
“Maybe I was destined to forever fall in love with people I couldn’t have. Maybe there’s a whole assortment of impossible people waiting for me to find them. Waiting to make me feel the same impossibility over and over again.”— Carol Rifka Brunt, amazon.comTagged: Love, impossible, Unrequited Love
“When all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.”— E.A. Bucchianeri, amazon.comTagged: Love, Grief, Pain
“If loving you means getting dirty, bring on the grime.”— Sarah Kay, goodreads.comTagged: Love, dirty, Pain
“The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.”— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.comTagged: Love, Unrequited Love, Unrequited
“What you call love on your side may be called lust on another's side.”— Bangambiki Habyarimana, amazon.comTagged: Love, Lust, Confusion
“You want to know what love is? Its the thing that ruins you.”— Alice Hoffman, amazon.comTagged: Love, Destruction, Pain
“This unrequited love business was driving him crazy. It was a feeling that took you over, mind, body, and soul. Worse than a drug that tore apart your flesh and spirit, and without which you simply could not live.”— Mirella Muffarotto, amazon.comTagged: Love, Unrequited Love, Pain
“If you're hungry enough... even poison tastes good.”— Billy Coffey, amazon.comTagged: Love, poison, Toxic
“I thought that love would last forever. But nothing is forever. Life is not forever. The only reliable permanence is change. Love hurts because change is painful. Love hurts because love lost is an assault on our ego. We fear that we will fail again and those who live in fear of failure slowly but i…”— Chloe Thurlow, amazon.comTagged: Love, Forever, Change
“You can’t be friends with someone you have feelings for. It’ll just be a constant reminder of what you can’t have. It’s like putting boiling water in an ice cold glass. It’s gonna bust and make a mess.”— Jaime Reed, amazon.comTagged: Love, Friends, Friend Zone
“Love hurts. Love is fragile. Love comes like a breath of magic, then departs leaving us feeling empty, alone, a paper cup blowing on the wind.”— Chloe Thurlow, amazon.comTagged: Love, fragile, Magic
“Why do I feel like my heart is ripping in thousands of pieces, taking with it every shred of soul that I still have?”— Eva Scoutt, amazon.comTagged: Love, heart, Misery
“Sometimes love is pastel. Sometimes love is black. And sometimes love is fiery red and you feel as if you are going to burn in the flames.”— Chloe Thurlow, amazon.comTagged: Love, Burning, Pain