“Love is not the last room: there are others after it, the whole length of the corridor that has no end.”— Yehuda Amichai, loc.gov
“‘Well,’ the Goddess said, 'your heart didn’t heal straight the last time it broke. So we’ll break it again and reset it so it heals straight this time.’”— Jane Yolen, amazon.com
“Many of us find ourselves saying “BUT HE WAS SO GREAT!” Yes, and the people who got on the Titanic thought they were going on vacation. Things changed and it’s important to remember that they did.”— Greg Behrendt, amazon.com
“The person you loved took a good long look at the awesomeness that is you, evaluated your relationship together, and said, “No, thanks. I’ll try my luck elsewhere.” That alone should make you realize that it wasn’t a match made in heaven.”— Greg Behrendt, amazon.com
“I find myself formulating excuses I know you’ve already come up with, because I know I’ll never get an ‘I’m sorry’ followed by just a period. And I deserve that period.”— Kendra Syrdal, amazon.com
“My heart might be bruised, but it will recover and become capable of seeing beauty of life once more. It's happened before, it will happen again, I'm sure.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way possible.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“What lazy lovers we are. Such reluctant soulmates. My hair comes out in the shower and I swear it misses your hands. I have weeks of unplayed Jeopardy!. I don’t want to ask questions. I know better than to ask anything at all.”— Brenna Twohy, brennatwohy.tumblr.com
“I thought about breakups, how difficult they were, but then usually it was only after you broke up with one woman that you met another. I had to taste women in order to really know them, to get inside of them. I could invent men in my mind because I was one, but women, for me, were almost impossible…”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.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, chrissystockton.com
“I will love you if I never see you again and I will love you if I see you every Tuesday.”— Lemony Snicket, goodreads.com