“You’re twenty-one or twenty-nine and your heart’s been broken somewhere between four and twenty times—fetal-position-on-the-bathroom-floor broken, real-country-music broken—and you don’t know how you can ever be expected to go on like this for fifty more years and change.”— Jade Sylvan, pankmagazine.com
“Sometimes you break your heart in the right way, if you know what I mean.”— Gregory David Roberts, amazon.com
“When your heart is shattered into a million pieces, all you can do is try to keep holding on. You breathe. You try to fall asleep. You try to not think about him.”— Susane Colasanti, amazon.com
“Is it still considered a heartache when in fact, it’s your entire body and soul that feel broken?”— Jaf Liethers, quotes.blognook.com
“My poor heart is in an awful state now But it's too late now to call a halt”— John Coltrane, open.spotify.com
“Once in a while will you try to give One little thought to me Though someone else may be Nearer your heart?”— John Coltrane, open.spotify.com
“My heart is sad and lonely For you I sigh, for you dear only Why haven't you seen it I'm all for you body and soul I spend my days in longing And wondering why it's me you're wronging”— John Coltrane, open.spotify.com
“Imagining that you are going to come back to me is my favorite way to spend the day.”— Melissa Broder, amazon.com
“The desire to be loved is the last illusion Give it up and you will be free.”— Margaret Atwood, amazon.com
“Just because one person’s problem is less traumatic than another’s doesn’t mean they’re required to hurt less.”— J.A. Redmerski, amazon.com
“Is this just what you do? You start to get involved, get scared when the emotions are too much, and then dream up any excuse you can to run? Or to invite the other person to dump you?”— Sherryl Woods, amazon.com
“It’s probably the worst feeling in the world, when you’re deeply and madly in love with a [person] and you know [they’re] not feeling you the same way, and you don’t know why.”— Bruno Mars, npr.org
“I am only responsible for my own heart, you offered yours up for the smashing my darling. Only a fool would give out such a vital organ.”— Anaïs Nin, goodreads.com
“I had to learn to live without you and I couldn’t make sense of it, because I left so much of me inside of you.”— R. M. Drake, goodreads.com
“I kept hearing that ‘better to have loved and lost’ bull[crap]. Another falsehood. Trust me, it is not better. Don’t show me paradise and then burn it down.”— Harlan Coben, 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