“I usually become a ghost to those who no longer deserve my time. I've never seen a point in explaining my absence to someone who failed to appreciate my presence. You don't owe any explanations to those who hurt you.’”— R.H. Sin, goodreads.com
“I miss everything. I miss talking to her, hearing about her day. I miss her voice all gravelly and smoky, I miss hearing her laugh, I miss getting her letters, writing her letters. I miss her eyes, and the smell of her hair, and the way her breath tasted. I fucking miss everything. I miss knowing sh…”— James Frey, amazon.com
“Hell is when people you love the most reach right into your soul and rip it out of you. And they do it because they can.”— Jess Rothenberg, amazon.com
“One of the reasons why we crave love, and seek it so desperately, is that love is the only cure for loneliness, and shame, and sorrow. But some feelings sink so deep into the heart that only loneliness can help you find them again. Some truths about yourself are so painful that only shame can help y…”— Gregory David Roberts, amazon.com
“What are you supposed to do with all the love you have for somebody if that person is no longer there? What happens to all that leftover love? Do you suppress it? Do you ignore it? Are you supposed to give it to someone else?”— Maggie O'Farrell, amazon.com
“You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways.”— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com
“A profound love between two people involves, after all, the power and chance of doing profound hurt.”— Ursula K. Le Guin, amazon.com
“If you want to fall in love, you can’t hold everything in. You have to open up, take that risk. You’ll be hurt sometimes, but if you don’t, you’ll never be happy. The one you find may not be the kind…you expected to fall in love with, but it won’t matter, you’ll love…”— Jean M. Auel, amazon.com
“You will go on and meet someone else and I’ll just be a chapter in your tale, but for me, you were, you are and you always will be, the whole story.”— Marian Keyes, amazon.com
“You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.”— Franz Kafka, amazon.com
“Every broken heart has screamed at one time or another: Why can’t you see who I truly am?”— Shannon L. Alder, goodreads.com
“There had been too much emotion, too much damage, too much everything.”— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com
“They were in love, happy, content; but why was it so painful being in love, why was there so much pain in happiness?”— Virginia Woolf, amazon.com
“A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own. The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.”— Percy Bysshe Shelley, amazon.com
“Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.”— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, amazon.com