“It’s so funny I try to turn things back We try to ignore it But at this point How can we love again?”— IU, Oh Hyuk, open.spotify.com
“It’s so much harder to fall out of love Than to fall in love you make me live and die again”— Epik High, open.spotify.com
“When I feel myself falling out of love with you, I turn the record of your laughter over, reposition the needle. I dust the dirty living room of your affection.”— Sierra Demulder, sierrademulder.tumblr.com
“And now she was colder by the hour, more dead with every breath I took. I thought: That is the fear: I have lost something important, and I cannot find it, and I need it.”— John Green, amazon.com
“I do think that men can forget a lost love quickly. I know that women would find it much harder.”— Jane Austen, amazon.com
“Only after a person has their heart broken does the world appear as it truly is.”— Michael Gilbert, amazon.com
“Sadly enough, the most painful goodbyes are the ones that are left unsaid and never explained.”— Jonathan Harnisch, amazon.com
“I have never forgotten, and I can't imagine you have, and I've thought of it over the years. It was so good, when it was good, I kept thinking. How could it go wrong?”— George R.R. Martin, amazon.com
“And he hated himself and hated her, too, for the ruin they'd made of each other.”— Dennis Lehane, amazon.com
“A broken heart is just the growing pains necessary so that you can love more completely when the real thing comes along.”— J.S.B. Morse, amazon.com
“It hurts to breathe. It hurts to live. I hate her, yet I do not think I can exist without her.”— Charlotte Featherstone, amazon.com
“I know that's what people say-- you'll get over it. I'd say it, too. But I know it's not true. Oh, youll be happy again, never fear. But you won't forget. Every time you fall in love it will be because something in the man reminds you of him.”— Betty Smith, amazon.com
“Like all things in life and games that we play, there simply has to come a time when it has to end.”— R.J. Torbert, amazon.com
“To respect the dignity of a relationship also implies accepting the end when it comes. Except in my mind, except in my dreams, where the aftertaste of her still lingers.”— André Brink, amazon.com
“It's much easier to not know things sometimes. Things change and friends leave. And life doesn't stop for anybody.”— Stephen Chbosky, amazon.com
“Falling into ruin was a bit like falling in love: Both descents stripped you bare and left you as you were at your core. And both endings are equally painful.”— J.R. Ward, amazon.com