“You try every trick in the book to keep her. You write her letters. You drive her to work. You quote Neruda. You compose a mass e-mail disowning all your sucias. You block their e-mails. You change your phone number. You stop drinking. You stop smoking. You claim you’re a sex addict and start attend…”— Junot Dìaz, amazon.com
“The next person you open your heart to won’t make you constantly guess if your love is returned, and that is going to feel damn good.”— Chrissy Stockton, thoughtcatalog.com
“there are still things I can’t admit. there are still things I can’t believe I did to make you love me.”— Fortesa Latifi, madgirlf.tumblr.com
“If you leave someone at least tell them why, because what’s more painful than being abandoned is knowing you aren’t worth an explanation.”— Soft Grung, twitter.com
“Him and I, we were not fire. We were water (still are), liquid, pliable. We took the shape of anything in the universe. It was the togetherness of water that took to me—we are separate but we are the same. Our volume changes, our chemical makeup not always in balance. But most importantly, I knew we…”— Valerie Cheng, thoughtcatalog.com
“You think it was tough out there. You think it was easy for me without you. You thought that every single day wasn't a Goddam marathon of my life without you?”— Amanda Seyfried, amazon.com
“The last time you touch her will feel remarkably like the first. She will be drunk and smiling and full of love for you when she steps out of her dress. You will forget she is leaving because you can still hold her face in your hands. You will forget she is leaving because her lips are soft and wet…”— Joaquin Fernandez, thoughtcatalog.com
“It would have broken my heart if it hadn't been so damn familiar. I guess I'd gotten numb to that sort of thing. I had heart-leather like walruses got blubber.”— Junot Dìaz, amazon.com
“You know how it is when you get back with somebody you’ve loved. It felt better than it ever was, better than it ever could be again.”— Junot Dìaz, amazon.com
“Then we fucked so that we could pretend that nothing hurtful had just happened.”— Junot Dìaz, amazon.com
“You keep waiting for the heaviness to leave you. You keep waiting for the moment you never think about the ex again. It doesn't come.”— Junot Dìaz, amazon.com
“Then you look at her and smile a smile your dissembling face will remember until the day you die...This is how you lose her.”— Junot Dìaz, amazon.com
“A breakup can feel almost like a death … and it kind of is. It’s the death of potential, the death of all the possibilities that could have been.”— Sabrina Alexis, amazon.com
“She will find a new you, a better you. She will find someone who doesn’t leave.”— Becca Martin, thoughtcatalog.com
“Driving was a kind of thinking, the only kind he could then tolerate. But still, the thought lurked out there, just beyond the reach of his headlights: he'd been dumped.”— John Green, amazon.com
“Although it may sound ridiculous to say ‘Don’t take it personally’ when your husband tells you he no longer loves you, sometimes that’s exactly what you have to do.”— Laura A. Munson, nytimes.com