“It [I'm leaving] wasn't really necessary to say, especially if you were already walking away. Almost redundant. And yet, there was a comfort in being no question, no room for doubt.”— Sarah Dessen, amazon.com
“We kissed each other until we were too tired to keep going. I could still feel him holding back. It was my penance for what I had done to him. All I could do was hope the walls would fall and that I could have all of him again, but I was always leaving and he was tired of watching me walk away. We b…”— Kimberly Novosel,, amazon.com
“I always compare healthy relationships to rubber bands. They will always have equal tension on each opposite side. But breakups are someone letting go of their end of it. And we want to hold on, we want to fix it but in reality we can't force someone to want to 'pick up' their end of it. And as much…”— Kirsten Corley, facebook.com
“Anything that you chase in life only runs away from you. Here’s another piece of priceless wisdom: This includes men.”— Ellen Smoak, amazon.com
“When you can finally let go is when you will be at peace with yourself. And this is usually the time Mr. Ex decides to get his act together. It takes four to eight weeks for a man to realize what he has lost.”— Leslie Braswell, amazon.com
“After going through a breakup, change your text and ringtone sound. Your brain ties a lot of memories to sound.”— Unknown, reddit.com
“You know someone for a while and then one day a hole opens underneath them, and they fall out of your world.”— Joe Hill, amazon.com
“Dying was such an elegant way to leave a relationship. No infidelity, no boredom, no long, complicated conversations late into the night. No 'She’s still single, I hear.’ No running into each other at parties and weddings. No ‘She’s stacked on the weight’ or ‘She’s showing her age.’ Dying was final…”— Liane Moriarty, amazon.com
“She was remembering what it was like when you broke up with someone. Conversations became so hopelessly tangled. You had to be polite and precise. You couldn’t safely criticize anymore, because you didn’t have the right. You’d lost your immunity.”— Liane Moriarty, amazon.com
“There had been times when missing him had felt like someone had reached inside her and pulled out the part of her that remembered how to breathe. And times when she’d barely given the memories of him a second’s worth of her time.”— Megan Hart, amazon.com
“Love, when it goes, can sometimes burn to ash. And sometimes it can leave nothing.”— Megan Hart, amazon.com
“I wouldn’t trade one minute of what we had together even if it meant I’d never have to feel this way.”— Megan Hart, amazon.com
“I won't say it's okay, because it's not. If you want to break up with me, Elle, then do it. But I'm not going to make it easy for you.”— Megan Hart, amazon.com
“He left feeling that if he had searched harder, he might have found her- that he was leaving her behind.”— F Scott Fitgerald, amazon.com
“I needed to hate someone and you’re the one I love the most, so it fell on you.”— Gayle Forman, amazon.com
“It was terrible and awful when someone left you. You could move on, do the best you could, but an ending was an ending. No matter how many pages of sentences and paragraphs of great stories led up to it, it would always have the last word.”— Sarah Dessen, amazon.com
“I cut my bangs with some rusty kitchen scissors I screamed his name ‘til the neighbors called the cops I numbed the pain at the expense of my liver Don’t know what I did next, all I know I couldn’t stop”— Miranda Lambert, youtube.com
“Women fall in love when they get to know you. Men are just the opposite. When they finally know you, they're ready to leave.”— James Salter, amazon.com
“Dating is like trying to make a meal out of leftovers. Some leftovers actually get better when they've had a little time to mature. But others should be thrown out right away, No matter how you try to warm them up, they're never as good as when they were new.”— Lisa Kleypas, amazon.com
“Don't be discouraged - every relationship you have is a failure, until you find the right one.”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.com