“Then he left, and with him he took the sun, the moon, the stars, and anything inside of me that might have been good.”— Julie Murphy, amazon.com
“Love, the deadliest of all deadly things: It kills you both when you have it and when you don’t.”— Lauren Oliver, amazon.com
“Unrequited love does not die; it’s only beaten down to a secret place where it hides, curled and wounded. For some unfortunates, it turns bitter and mean, and those who come after pay the price for the hurt done by the one who came before.”— Elle Newmark, amazon.com
“Everyone always wants to know how you can tell when it's true love, and the answer is this: when the pain doesn't fade and the scars don't heal, and it's too damn late.”— Jonathan Tropper, amazon.com
“Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say My tooth is aching than to say My heart is broken.”— C. S. Lewis, amazon.com
“What a terrible thing it is to wound someone you really care for - and to do it so unconsciously.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say My tooth is aching than to say My heart is broken.”— C. S. Lewis, amazon.com
“Sometimes you break your heart in the right way, if you know what I mean.”— Gregory David Roberts, amazon.com
“Every time, [they] break your heart. And everytime, [they] expect [you] to pick up the pieces.”— Rainbow Rowell, amazon.com
“You’ve got to fall in love, fall out of love, no matter how much it hurts because my god, it’s worth it.”— Emily Palermo, starredsoul.tumblr.com
“You don’t know distance until you’ve shared your bed with someone who’s falling out of love with you.”— Beau Taplin, afadthatlastsforever.tumblr.com
“Perhaps some day I’ll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com
“Soon we will be strangers. No, we can never be that. Hurting someone is an act of reluctant intimacy. We will be dangerous acquaintances with a history.”— Hanif Kureishi, amazon.com
“The person who grieves, suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.”— Edmund Burke, amazon.com
“We’re born into the night like children of the damned. Our pain will shine a light to those who understand.”— Andy Biersack, open.spotify.com
“People think first love is sweet, and never sweeter than when that first bond snaps… Yet that first broken heart is always the most painful, the slowest to mend, and leaves the most visible scar. What’s so sweet about that?”— Stephen King, amazon.com
“You’ll ache. And you’re going to love it. It will crush you. And you’re still going to love all of it. Doesn’t it sound lovely beyond belief?”— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com
“Nothing is worse than when someone who’s supposed to love you just leaves.”— Ava Dellaira, amazon.com