“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.”— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com
“The say time heals everything but honestly, I feel like time will never be on our side.”— R.M Drake, amazon.com
“What do you do when the one person you want comfort from the most is the one who caused your pain? How can I want so desperately for him to wrap me up in his arms but also want so much for him to leave me alone.”— Amanda Grace, amazon.com
“It was terrible and awful when someone left you. You could move on, do the best you could, but an ending was an ending. No matter how many pages of sentences and paragraphs of great stories led up to it, it would always have the last word.”— Sarah Dessen, amazon.com
“All I'd ever wanted was to forget. But even when I thought I had, pieces had kept emerging, like bits of wood floating up to the surface that only hint at the shipwreck below”— Sarah Dessen, amazon.com
“Everyone, at some point in their lives, wakes up in the middle of the night with the feeling that they are all alone in the world, and that nobody loves them now and that nobody will ever love them...The best thing to do in these circumstances is to wake somebody else up, so that they can feel this…”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.com
“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com
“I understand that love and tragedy go hand in hand. There can't be one without the other, but none the less I find myself wondering if it's a fair trade-off”— Nicholas Sparks, amazon.com
“But your lives aren't just on different tracks they're on different continents. And that means you're going to have to watch your heart from here on, because if you don't it's going to end up breaking into all sorts of pieces.”— Nicholas Sparks, amazon.com
“When your heart breaks, you got to fight like hell to make sure you're still alive. Because you are. And that pain you feel? That's life. The confusion and fear? That's there to remind you, that somewhere out there is something better, and that something is worth fighting for.”— Nathan Scott, amazon.com
“It would have broken my heart if it hadn't been so damn familiar. I guess I'd gotten numb to that sort of thing. I had heart-leather like walruses got blubber.”— Junot Dìaz, amazon.com
“He was totally and irrevocably in love with Ana. What he used to feel for those girls he'd never really known was nothing compared to the amor he was carrying in his heart for Ana. It had the density of a dwarf-motherfucking-star and at times he was a hundred percent sure it would drive him mad.”— Junot Dìaz, amazon.com
“...and when he thought about the way she laughed, as though she owned the air around her, his heart thundered inside his chest...”— Junot Dìaz, amazon.com
“Love was a rare thing, easily confused with a million other things, and if anybody knew this to be true it was him.”— Junot Dìaz, amazon.com
“She was the kind of girlfriend God gives you young, so you'll know loss the rest of your life.”— Junot Dìaz, amazon.com
“It happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then you realize that people you've known forever don't see things the way you do. So you keep the wonderful memories, but find yourself moving on.”— Nicholas Sparks, amazon.com
“Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all. He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it -- namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“It’s hard staying sober when you ain’t staying over It’s easy getting messed up on the truth It’s hard standing here watching taillights disappear It’s hard staying sober when I’m getting over you”— Miranda Lambert