“We demand closure as though our lives were put together as neatly as novels, but the fact of the matter is they’re not. In real life, relationships are messy and poorly written, ending too early or too late, and sometimes in the middle of a sentence.”— Beau Taplin, afadthatlastsforever.tumblr.com
“If you forget everything else about me, please remember this. I walked down that street and I never looked back and I love you. I love you. I love you so much that I shall hate you for ever for today.”— John Fowles, amazon.com
“And I began to let him go. Hour by hour. Days into months. It was a physical sensation, like letting out the string of a kite. Except that the string was coming from my center.”— Augusten Burroughs, amazon.com
“If I read our story backwards, it’s about how I un-broke your heart, and then we were happy until one day, you forgot about me forever.”— Joseph Gordon-Levitt, amazon.com
“So here’s my question: when you lose the most important person to you in the entire world, where is all the love – love you never even knew you were capable of – supposed to go?”— Ted Michael, amazon.com
“I am jealous of your tattoos and how long they will stay with you after I go.”— Clementine Von Radics, clementinepoetry.us
“I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast. And these two people in the water, trying to hold onto each other, holding on as hard as they can, but in the end it’s just too much. The current’s too strong. They’ve got to let go, drift apart. That’s how it is with us.…”— Kazuo Ishiguro, amazon.com
“Okay, we didn’t work, and all memories to tell you the truth aren’t good. But sometimes there were good times. Love was good. I loved your crooked sleep beside me and never dreamed afraid. There should be stars for great wars like ours.”— Sandra Cisneros, sandracisneros.com
“Yes, I was a fool, but I was in love, and though I was suffering the greatest misery I had ever known I would not have had it otherwise…”— Edgar Rice Burroughs, amazon.com
“It’s funny how you can forget everything except people loving you. Maybe that’s why humans find it so hard getting over love affairs. It’s not the pain they’re getting over, it’s the love.”— Melina Marchetta, amazon.com
“I don’t care how hard being together is, nothing is worse than being apart.”— Josephine Angelini, amazon.com
“Is it still considered a heartache when in fact, it’s your entire body and soul that feel broken?”— Jaf Liethers, theysaidso.com
“I loved you so much once. I did. More than anything in the whole wide world. Imagine that. What a laugh that is now. Can you believe it? We were so intimate once upon a time I can’t believe it now. The memory of being that intimate with somebody. We were so intimate I could puke. I can’t imagine eve…”— Raymond Carver, amazon.com
“Indeed — why should I not admit it? — in that moment, my heart was breaking.”— Kazuo Ishiguro, amazon.com
“This is an apology letter to the both of us for how long it took me to let things go.”— Buddy Wakefield, buddywakefield.com