“It’s funny how you can forget everything except people loving you. Maybe that’s why humans find it so hard getting over love affairs. It’s not the pain they’re getting over, it’s the love.”— Melina Marchetta, amazon.com
“I don’t care how hard being together is, nothing is worse than being apart.”— Josephine Angelini, amazon.com
“It’s very strange that the people you love are often the people you’re most cruel to.”— Kenneth Branagh, m.imdb.com
“Here is the truth: It is hard to be in love with someone who is in love someone else. I don’t know how to turn that into poetry.”— Clementine Von Radics, crushedfingers.tumblr.com
“Is it still considered a heartache when in fact, it’s your entire body and soul that feel broken?”— Jaf Liethers, theysaidso.com
“Those who really love you don’t mean to hurt you and if they do, you can’t see it in their eyes, but it hurts them too.”— Holly Black, goodreads.com
“When you have been burned by fire once, you don’t leap into the flames again.”— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com
“The hardest bit about losing people you loved wasn’t thinking about the memories you had, the ones that had already been made. No. The hardest bit was the stuff that should have been, but had now been denied.”— Matt Haig, amazon.com
“A wounded heart seeks shelter in a heart that it can trust.”— William Chapman, williamchapmanwritings.tumblr.com
“I would rather have a body full of scars and a head full of memories than a life of regrets and perfect skin.”— Atticus, amazon.com
“Don’t be so vain to think that you ruined me, that you wrecked me, destroyed me. I am the only one who has the power to do that.”— Amanda Helm, amandaspoetry.tumblr.com
“I don’t know how to not love people when they’re hurting. I guess that’s why I keep falling in love with open wounds and then not understanding when we are nothing but blood in a lifeboat.”— Ashe Vernon, latenightcornerstore.com
“In grief, words are poor consolation - silence & agonizing tears are all that is left the sufferer.”— Mary Todd Lincoln, amazon.com
“And I learned ‘You deserve better’ was sometimes no more than a synonym for ‘I don’t want to hurt you, and I want you to be happy, but I don’t love you anymore.”— Beau Taplin, afadthatlastsforever.tumblr.com
“I don’t want to care. If I care about things, it’ll just be worse, it’ll just be another thing to worry about. It’s less painful if I don’t care.”— Bret Easton Ellis, amazon.com