“I see us becoming incredibly close. Great friends, eventually. After the part where you hate my guts for a long, cold winter.”— Hank Moody, David Duchovny, imdb.com
“...I love you so much. So, so much, and I probably always will. I just don't like you anymore. I'm sorry.”— David Nicholls, amazon.com
“I'm writing you a letter that I'll burn over the stove just to watch the light between us flame and burn out again.”— Shinji Moon, amazon.com
“Real love doesn’t let people disappear; it doesn’t let the unfortunate timing of the universe stop two people from ending up together. Because people always find their way in the end, people who are meant for each other, will ride through storms and packed out tubes and delayed flights and every sin…”— Rose Goodman, thoughtcatalog.com
“Because love doesn’t wait for time. Because clocks don’t reset. Because an hour lost is one you never get back. Because you should not have to see someone’s face in a photograph and tell yourself and your friends that they were the ‘one who got away’.”— Rose Goodman, thoughtcatalog.com
“The truth is, love doesn’t worry so much about time. Love doesn’t stop being love because things are complicated. Feelings don’t stop burning inside you like fireworks just because you both have other priorities, or your lives are a little messy. That intense need to be beside each other doesn’t jus…”— Rose Goodman, thoughtcatalog.com
“We are sitting on your bed, there is distance between us and the silence is suffocating me. I am holding my knees to my chest. My body is shaking; you are quiet. I ask you if you still love me, and you tell me that you are not sure that you ever did.”— Mariah Gordon-Dyke, venula.tumblr.com
“Nothing ever ends poetically. It ends and we turn it into poetry. All that blood was never once beautiful. It was just red.”— Kait Rokowski, kaitrokowski.tumblr.com
“This is me accepting that endings don’t have to be messy. This is me understanding how incredible it really is — that for a moment in time, in a world of billions, two strangers were in the right place, at the right time, and something transpired between them. This is my heart swelling with the thou…”— Bianca Sparacino, thoughtcatalog.com
“Just because two people don’t wind up spending their entire lives together doesn’t mean their relationship was a failure.”— Ted Michael, amazon.com
“Some people ditch friends and lovers because it’s easier to get new ones than to resolve conflicts with the old ones, particularly if resolving a conflict requires one to admit error or practice mercy. I’m describing an asshole. But what if the asshole thinks he’s ditching an asshole?”— Sarah Manguso, amazon.com
“The reason it’s so painful when someone disappears is you have to face the fact that the person you loved had probably left you a long time before he grabbed his coat and scrammed.”— Greg Behrendt, amazon.com
“You may continue to call it a breakup. I will continue to call it an exorcism.”— Iain S. Thomas, amazon.com