“She's never found peace since she left his arms, and never will again till she's as he is now!”— Thomas Hardy, amazon.com
“While we loved each other we didn’t need words to make ourselves understood. But people don’t love forever. A time came when I should have found the words to keep her with me—only I couldn’t.”— Albert Camus, amazon.com
“I want to talk about what happened without mentioning how much it hurt. There has to be a way. To care for the wounds without reopening them. To name the pain without inviting it back into me.”— Lora Mathis, loramathis.com
“Except I think it feels more like an empty stomach than a broken heart. An aching hollowness that food can't cure. You know. You've felt it yourself, I bet. You hurt all the time, you're restless, you can't think straight, you sort of wish you were dead but what you really want is for everything to…”— Richard Laymon, amazon.com
“I've never forgotten him. Dare I say I miss him? I do. I miss him. I still see him in my dreams. They are nightmares mostly, but nightmares tinged with love. Such is the strangeness of the human heart. I still cannot understand how he could abandon me so unceremoniously, without any sort of goodbye,…”— Yann Martel, amazon.com
“I have tried to let you go and I cannot. I cannot stop thinking about you. I cannot stop dreaming about you.”— Erin Morgenstern, amazon.com
“Your heart’s broken but your whole body hurts. Then you get into bed at night, thankful to be back in a safe haven under the covers where you can cry alone and not be judged for being so weak to another human being, when all of our lives we are taught to be independent. And after a silent moment in…”— Kate Dillen, thoughtcatalog.com
“I know what it’s like. When you lose someone who is your home, you know, your only home in the world. When that happens, you think, oh fuck! I should’ve had a backup home. Another person, a place a thing, something to make me feel safe and I don’t have that… and now I’m lost.”— Matt Drake, Charlie Countryman, Shia LaBeouf, amazon.com
“...there's too much to express. I'm sorry. That's what I've been trying to say to you, I'm sorry for everything...I'm sorry for my inability to let unimportant things go, for my inability to hold on to the important things.”— Jonathan Safran Foer, amazon.com
“Whatever you love passionately always destroys you in the end. But how can I explain what has happened to me? How can I make anyone even understand that I can write about it? I don’t know, I don’t know any more; all I know is that it is so.”— Guy de Maupassant, amazon.com
“It was strange, really. A couple months ago, I had thought I couldn't live without him. Apparently I could.”— Gabrielle Zevin, amazon.com
“What was it like to love him? Asked Gratitude. It was like being exhumed, I answered, and brought to life in a flash of brilliance. What was it like to be loved in return? Asked Joy. It was like being seen after a perpetual darkness, I replied. To be heard after a lifetime of silence. What was it li…”— Lang Leav, amazon.com
“I'm so sorry that I wasted your time because you really do mean a lot to me and I hope you have a very nice life because I really think you deserve it. I really do. I hope you do, too. Okay, then. Goodbye.”— Stephen Chbosky, amazon.com
“It's sad isn't it? I once thought worlds of you and now you're just another lesson.”— Beau Taplin, afadthatlastsforever.tumblr.com
“I did not beg him to stay because I was begging God that he would not leave.”— Warsan Shire, warsanshirepoetryreblogs.tumblr.com
“You wanna know how I got these scars? I ripped every last piece of you out of my smile.”— Rudy Francisco, youtube.com