“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.com
“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.com
“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.com
“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.com
“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.com
“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.com
“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.com
“Is this love? Does love need to hurt this much? Or is this a forced kind of love that slaughters all involved?”— Tali Alexander, amazon.com
“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.com
“There had been other men. She'd flung herself at other closed windows. The windows never broke, but her heart, at the end, was in splinters.”— Rebecca Makkai, amazon.com
“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.com
“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.com
“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.com