“One of the hardest things you will ever have to do, my darling, is to grieve the loss of a person who lit your soul on fire.”— Mariam-Lara Hunter, thoughtcatalog.com
“Tell me that you’re sorry. That you know we’re not stars. We’re just people. Tell me that you know there’s nothing poetic about plane tickets. Tell me that you want to buy them anyway.”— Trista Mateer, tristamateer.com
“I don't want to fall in love with you. It'll hurt far too much when it's over.”— Stieg Larsson, amazon.com
“Some relationships just end. Like a star, they burn bright and brilliant, and then nothing in particular goes wrong, they just reach their end. They burn out.”— Cora Carmack, amazon.com
“You’ve gone through heartbreak, and whether you are fully over it now or are still healing, you’ve learned that you are so much stronger than you ever could have guessed.”— Kim Quindlen, thoughtcatalog.com
“What irritated me most in that entire situation was the fact that I wasn’t feeling humiliated, or annoyed, or even fooled. Betrayal was what I felt, my heart broken not just by a guy I was in love with, but also by, as I once believed, a true friend.”— Danka V., amazon.com
“I'm not crying because of you; you're not worth it. I'm crying because my delusion of who you were was shattered by the truth of who you are.”— Steve Maraboli, amazon.com
“So if a person feels so far away then they were never near to begin with and maybe we confuse attachment with love and maybe we confuse closeness with commitment.”— Rania Naim, thoughtcatalog.com
“Because here’s the truth about distance; it makes the heart grow fonder only if this heart was already entirely enthralled by you but it makes the heart grow colder if this heart was already unsure about you.”— Rania Naim, thoughtcatalog.com
“Distance shows you who was in your life out of convenience and who was in your life out of love. Because it’s easy to love someone when they’re in the same city and when they can see you anytime, but it’s when you’re apart and they’re distracted by a million different things that their love is truly…”— Rania Naim, thoughtcatalog.com
“I’ll be fine. Even if I have to start from scratch, even if I have to erase all of your memories, even if I never see you again….I’ll be fine.”— Rania Naim, thoughtcatalog.com
“that's the problem with being hurt you avoid love altogether out of fear of more hurt”— R.H. Sin, amazon.com
“What have I become, my sweetest friend? Everyone I know goes away in the end. And you could have it all my empire of dirt. I will let you down. I will make you hurt.”— Johnny Cash, play.spotify.com
“Just because it ended, doesn’t mean there is something wrong with you or it was something you did.”— Melody Yong, thoughtcatalog.com
“Heartbreak hurts, no matter how long you were with someone, no matter if you were dating or not. Once your heart is invested, it hurts when it ends.”— Becca Martin, thoughtcatalog.com