“I am tired of trying to hold things together that cannot be held. Trying to control what cannot be controlled. I am tired of denying myself what I want for fear of breaking things I cannot fix. They will break no matter what we do.”— Erin Morgenstern, amazon.com
“You keep storing up all that anger and grief. Eventually it spills over. Or you drown in it.”— Leigh Bardugo, amazon.com
“The honest to God truth is that I’m mad at myself. I should’ve known better.”— Miranda Kenneally, amazon.com
“If I ever let you down, it’s not because I don’t love you. It’s because I don’t love myself.”— William Chapman, goodreads.com
“It’s the ones you love the most who can lift you in an instant, and destroy you without trying.”— Dorothy Koomson, amazon.com
“I opened my mouth, almost said something. Almost. The rest of my life might have turned out differently if I had. But I didn’t.”— Khaled Hosseini, amazon.com
“To love means to open ourselves to the negative as well as the positive - to grief, sorrow, and disappointment as well as to joy, fulfillment, and an intensity of consciousness we did not know was possible before.”— Rollo May, amazon.com
“I knew what happened when you let yourself get close to someone, when you started to believe they loved you: you'd be disappointed.”— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com
“It's the worst thing to fall in love with someone who will never stop disappointing you...”— Emily Giffin, amazon.com
“There are different ways to be confused about how someone's disappointed you. Some lie about the future because they wanted to forget the past. But some will lie about the past because they think it will give you both a future.”— Laura Dave, amazon.com
“Consider this: the pain doesn’t come from losing your soul mate, but from the disappointment that this guy wasn’t your soul mate.”— Matthew Hussey, amazon.com
“Don’t settle for less or try to conform to the idea that you’re okay with what little you can get. You are just setting yourself up for disappointment by trying to make something more out of nothing.”— Lily Perez, thoughtcatalog.com
“Now is the time to stop giving so many opportunities to the loser who has disappointed us over and over again. Chances are he hasn’t changed this time and he won’t change next time either. So why even give him a next time?”— Stephanie Denning, thoughtcatalog.com
“People aren’t always what you want them to be. Sometimes they disappoint you or let you down, but you have to give them a chance first. You can’t just meet someone and expect them to be everything you’re looking for and then be angry when they’re not every hope and aspiration you projected onto them…”— Chloe Rattray, amazon.com
“I know you’ve been let down and disappointed by love. I know it’s been a long time since you’ve felt the magic you direly miss. But don’t worry – feeling like love is dead is just a key stage everyone passes through in their twenties. The magic comes back. It just happens when you’re expecting it th…”— Heidi Priebe, thoughtcatalog.com
“You think you're falling behind because you didn't get the job you want. You feel insecure because your friends are leveling up. You blame yourself because you course the wrong course in college. You wish your parents were wealthy so they could provide you a better life. You ask what's wrong with yo…”— M.A. Buendía HD, facebook.com