40 Times Authors Taught Us About The Haunting Reality Of Heartbreak

“He was right, after all; it didn't leave a scar, though part of me wishes it had. At least I'd have some evidence, some justification of this permanence. Stains are even worse when you're the only one who can see them.”

— Gayle Forman, amazon.com

“'Break me again,' she said softly because she knew he was addicted to broken things.”

— R.M Drake, rmdrk.bigcartel.com

“she gave all that she had she tried when you didn't and she'll walk away knowing that in the end you were not worthy of her love.”

— R.H. Sin, amazon.com

“That’s the thing about pain, it demands to be felt.”

— John Green, Augustus Waters, amazon.com

“But I'd long ago learned not to be picky in farewells. They weren't guaranteed or promised. You were lucky, more than blessed, if you got a good-bye at all.”

— Sarah Dessen, amazon.com

“Can you hate someone for what they have done, but still love them for whom they had been?”

— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com

“Our story has three parts: a beginning, a middle, and an end. And although this is the way all stories unfold, I still can't believe that ours didn't go on forever.”

— Nicholas Sparks, amazon.com

“I drove her to the airport. She kissed me good-bye. She told me that she loved me more than life itself. Then she stepped through security. She never came back.”

— Gayle Forman, amazon.com

“She was broken, I think it’s because she loved too much and she was always blind to the fact that love too is sometimes broken.”

— R.M Drake, rmdrk.bigcartel.com

“It's fucked up that you had to learn about love from those who never loved you.”

— R.H. Sin, amazon.com

“Maybe there’s something you’re afraid to say, or someone you’re afraid to love, or somewhere you’re afraid to go. It’s gonna hurt. It’s gonna hurt because it matters.”

— John Green, amazon.com

“We were willing to do so much for the people we loved, even if it meant hurting ourselves. Maybe that, in the end, was what love--all kinds-- was really about.”

— Sarah Dessen, amazon.com

“I needed to hate someone and you’re the one I love the most, so it fell on you.”

— Gayle Forman, amazon.com

“I crawled into his unmade bed, wrapping myself in his comforter like a cocoon, surrounding myself with his smell. I took out my cannula so I could smell better, breathing him in and breathing him out, the scent fading even as I lay there, my chest burning until I could't distinguish among the pains.”

— John Green, Hazel, amazon.com

“Even if you find him. Even if he didn't leave you on purpose, he can't possibly live up to the person you've built him into.”

— Gayle Forman, amazon.com

“That night I didn’t say anything. I just watched you leave and in the end, I just stayed sleeping awake. Somewhere between a sweet dream and a beautiful nightmare, hoping one day you’d return to rid me of the demons you left behind.”

— R.M Drake, rmdrk.bigcartel.com

“Letting go. Everyone talks about it like it's the easiest thing. Unfurl your fingers one by one until your hand is open.”

— Gayle Forman, amazon.com

“In time, the hurt began to fade and it was easier to just let it go. At least I thought it was. But in every boy I met in the next few years, I found myself looking for you”

— Nicholas Sparks, amazon.com

“I just wanted to tell you that I understand if you go. It’s okay if you have to leave us. It’s okay if you want to stop fighting.”

— Gayle Forman, amazon.com

“Maybe we feel empty because we leave pieces of ourselves in all the things we used to love.”

— R.M Drake, rmdrk.bigcartel.com

“You couldn't have strength without weakness, you couldn't have light without dark, you couldn't have love without loss.”

— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com

“I know what I did to you was so wrong, but at the time it also felt so necessary to my survival. I don't know if those two things can both be true, but that's how it was.”

— Gayle Forman, amazon.com

“The say time heals everything but honestly, I feel like time will never be on our side.”

— R.M Drake, amazon.com

“You can love someone so much… But you can never love someone as much as you miss them.”

— John Green, amazon.com

“Bravery was doing something dangerous without thinking. Courage was walking into danger, knowing full well the risks.”

— Gayle Forman, amazon.com

“You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.”

— John Green, amazon.com

“Losing me will hurt; it will be the kind of pain that won't feel real at first, and when it does, it will take her breath away.”

— Gayle Forman, amazon.com

“In the beginning, she had haunted me, haunted my dreams, but even now, just weeks later, she was slipping away, falling apart in my memory and everyone else's, dying again.”

— John Green, Miles 'Pudge' Halter, amazon.com

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

— Nicholas Sparks, amazon.com

“Sometimes you can only feel something by its absence. By the empty spaces it leaves behind.”

— Gayle Forman, amazon.com