“Everyone is an idiot when it comes to matters of the heart. Love is the great equalizer. Whenever you feel intimidated by someone’s coolness, just imagine them sobbing in their bedroom after someone broke their heart. I guarantee it’s happened.”— Ryan O'Connell, thoughtcatalog.com
“Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.”— Matt Groening, amazon.com
“People have scars in all sorts of unexpected places. Like secret road maps of their personal histories, diagrams of all of their old wounds. Most of our old wounds heal, leaving nothing behind but a scar. But some of them, don’t. Some wounds, we carry with us everywhere… and though the cut is long g…”— Debora Cahn, Dr. Meredith Grey, Ellen Pompeo, imdb.com
“I've come to terms with the fact that I'm broken. Not in a sad way, just in an it-is-what-it-is kind of way. Life happened and I've adjusted accordingly. We're all a little bit shattered. Pain and heartache comes our way and with time we develop patterns that we think will protect us... But that onl…”— Rachel Brathen, instagram.com
“I was dying on the inside, aching for all that we’d lost, and as I stared at our wedding photograph, I hated myself for allowing it to happen.”— Nicholas Sparks, amazon.com
“I'm tired of waiting by the phone, and second-guessing what a guy says and trusting someone not to hurt me. Again. I've been storming the relationship castle for fifteen years, and I still don't have my prince. I've got a bunch of battle scars from the field and I want to go home and nurse my wounds…”— Kim Gruenenfelder, amazon.com
“As I lay here tonight I keep thinking How long ago for you I was crazy And this night moves right along my mind and much my situation, And I'm feeling mighty cold and unhappy. And the songs I hear, they don't seem like they're changing And my time spent leaving far exceeds the times that I stayed An…”— Brenda Weiler, open.spotify.com
“Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're tryin' to be so quiet? We sit here stranded, though we're all doin' our best to deny it And Louise holds a handful of rain, temptin' you to defy it. Lights flicker from the opposite loft In this room the heat pipes just cough The country music…”— Bob Dylan, open.spotify.com
“You remind Anna, if she asks why That a thief stole my heart while she was making up her mind I heard she lives in Brooklyn with the cool And goes crazy over that New York scene on 7th Avenue. But I used to wait at the diner a million nights without her Praying she won't cancel again tonight And the…”— Gaslight Anthem, open.spotify.com
“But nobody never gonna tell you the way You gotta figure it out, boys, and suffer the rain And the fools in the night and the heat of the day When all you ever really wanted was for someone to understand”— Gaslight Anthem, open.spotify.com
“You keep making poetry out of people who never stayed as if all the pretty words in the world can cover up the heartache.”— Genefe Navilon, letters-to-the-sea.tumblr.com
“And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your…”— Douglas Coupland, amazon.com
“And in my dreams you're alive and you're crying As your mouth moves in mine, soft and sweet Rings of flowers 'round your eyes and I'll love you For the rest of your life when you're ready”— Neutral Milk Hotel, amazon.com
“If I am dumb beside your body while silence blossoms like tumours on our lips it is because I hear a man climb the stairs and clear his throat outside our door.”— Leonard Cohen, amazon.com
“Any fool can love somebody who’s perfect, somebody who does everything right. But that doesn’t stretch your soul. Your soul only gets stretched when you can still love somebody after they’ve hurt you.”— Susan Elizabeth Phillips, amazon.com
“Your soul has fallen to bits and pieces. Good. Rearrange them to suit yourself.”— Hermann Hesse, amazon.com
“It’s just how it is sometimes. Things hurt, and they hurt for a long time. You have to fight back, or it wins.”— Robin Benway, amazon.com
“I know now, after fifty years, that the finding/losing, forgetting/remembering, leaving/returning, never stops. The whole of life is about another chance, and while we are alive, till the very end, there is always another chance.”— Jeanette Winterson, amazon.com
“A woman is often a wonderful thing. And you are. But in you, as in all of them, is the indifference of Carmen, the joy in cruelty of Cleopatra, the tyrannical marble-heartedness of Katherine De Medici, and the cold glitter of all the passionless despots of men’s warm souls since sex first originated…”— James Thurber, amazon.com