“She tries to fix you because she loves you, because she wants you to the best person you could be, she wants to see you happy and she doesn’t want you to keep living with your brokenness.”— Rania Naim, thoughtcatalog.com
“There is no one on this planet who can undo you or make you whole.”— Tatiana Pérez, thoughtcatalog.com
“I crave broken men. When I try to save other people am I trying to save myself?”— Samantha Schutz, amazon.com
“You can’t be a strong, independent, and a healthy woman without being broken at least a few times.”— Brielle Mroczko, thoughtcatalog.com
“I thought of the pieces of me I'd left behind, a piece here, a piece there, scattered like bread crumbs. How much of me was left?”— Jennifer Niven, amazon.com
“Hearts may break, but hearts are the toughest of muscles, able to pump for a lifetime, seventy times a minute, and scarcely falter along the way. Even dreams, the most delicate and intangible of things, can prove remarkably difficult to kill.”— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com
“It’s hard to say how it happens. How all of the bits of me – even the broken ones – start to tumble. I think it’s my toes that go first. Next – my legs and the hallow spaces behind my ribs. And then my arms all the way down through my wrist bones to the tips of my fingers. My lips part and I realize…”— Autumn Doughton, amazon.com
“Sometimes you just can’t fix all the broken pieces, no matter how much you want to save them. Sometimes things are too crushed and damaged to be put back together.”— Becca Martin, thoughtcatalog.com
“There had been other men. She'd flung herself at other closed windows. The windows never broke, but her heart, at the end, was in splinters.”— Rebecca Makkai, amazon.com
“Don’t break yourself to mend someone else. Mend yourself, take care of yourself and look for the person that feels right, for the person who wouldn’t want to break you, but put you back together, cherish and respect you.”— Nataliia Totka, thoughtcatalog.com
“You want someone to sweep you off your feet, but you’re more interested in getting swept off your feet than the someone who’s doing the sweeping. You seem like you got it totally together, but you’re actually really emotionally damaged.”— Keith Merryman, Quincy, Andy Samberg, amazon.com
“You are not damaged goods just because you’ve made mistakes in your life. You are not going nowhere just because you haven’t got where you want to go yet. Those are the things you actually are not. Now I want to tell you what you are. You are your own definition of beautiful and worthwhile; that’s w…”— Taylor Swift, youtube.com
“The one who left you broken returns. And sometimes they are different and sometimes they show you how much they've changed. And that alone might be one of the greatest things in the world...to have someone you once cared about go through the trouble of finding you, just to tell you how much they sti…”— R.M. Drake, instagram.com
“I had to stop, because I had everything and I was absolutely broken inside. I kept it all together enough to where I would never let you down but I kept it too much together to where I let myself down.”— Unknown, instagram.com
“Not knowing how he lost himself, or how he recovered himself, he may never feel certain of not losing himself again.”— Charles Dickens, amazon.com
“The broken heart. You think you will die, but you just keep living, day after day after terrible day.”— Charles Dickens, amazon.com