“Apparently, something can happen inside someone you love—it can just happen somehow—and like magic she thinks that she’s had enough, and that the way the two of you have been for a really long time is no longer worth the effort.”— Meg Wolitzer, amazon.com
“And then the dreams break into a million tiny pieces. The dream dies. Which leaves you with a choice: you can settle for reality, or you can go off, like a fool, and dream another dream.”— Nora Ephron, amazon.com
“There was a time when I thought I loved my first wife more than life itself. But now I hate her guts. I do. How do you explain that? What happened to that love? What happened to it, is what I'd like to know. I wish someone could tell me.”— Raymond Carver, amazon.com
“Well, now If little by little you stop loving me I shall stop loving you Little by little If suddenly you forget me Do not look for me For I shall already have forgotten you.”— Pablo Neruda, amazon.com
“There's always a moment when you start to fall out of love, whether it's with a person or an idea or a cause, even if it's one you only narrate to yourself years after the event: a tiny thing, a wrong word, a false note, which means that things can never be quite the same again.”— Douglas Adams, amazon.com
“That’s life for you. All the happiness you gather to yourself, it will sweep away like it’s nothing. If you ask me I don’t think there are any such things as curses. I think there is only life. That’s enough.”— Junot Dìaz, amazon.com
“I loved her for so long. Our past trails behind us like a comet's tail, the future stretched out before us like the universe. Things happen. People get lost and love breaks.”— Jonathan Tropper, amazon.com
“I can’t remember why we stopped writing love letters and started crying drunkenly into the phone.”— Trista Mateer, tristamateer.com
“I don’t know how to exist properly in the same space as someone I don’t love anymore.”— Trista Mateer, tristamateer.com
“we loved each other until we didn’t. there is no way to turn this into poetry.”— Fortesa Latifi, madgirlf.tumblr.com
“There may come a day when they fall out of love with you. Do not let this be the day you fall out of love with you. How long they choose to stay will never be your decision, but how you choose to rise is.”— Bianca Sparacino, amazon.com
“Imagine falling in love with someone and finding out they raise their hand at the end of a long boring meeting to ask a question.”— Denise, twitter.com
“What was the lifespan of these improbable loves? An hour. A week. A few months at best. The end was a natural thing, like the seasons, like getting older, fruit turning. That was the saddest part—there was no one to blame and no way to reverse”— Miranda July, amazon.com
“"If I never love anyone again the way I have loved you" he said, "that will be a relief."”— Mia Hollow, twitter.com
“I don’t believe in goodbyes. I don’t believe that the connections we have to people and things are temporary. That somewhere along the way they cease to exist, cease to carry meaning, cease to be something real. Because no matter the time, the distance, the loss in our life, they will forever carry…”— Marisa Donnelly, thoughtcatalog.com
“I’ve put off immortalizing you in saying what I have to say because once I do, you’re no longer mine. It’s putting you out into the world to be poetry for someone else. And as long as I keep you in my head, no one else can touch us. Even when there is nothing to touch. Even when there is no us.”— Kendra Syrdal, thoughtcatalog.com
“You don't know distance until you've shared your bed with somebody who's falling out of love with you.”— Beau Taplin, twitter.com