“Sometimes I wish I lived in airstream homemade curtains Lived just like a gypsy. Break a heart, roll out of town Cause gypsies never get tied down”— Miranda Lambert, youtube.com
“I'm gonna find someplace I can ease my mind And try to heal my wounded pride”— Miranda Lambert, amazon.com
“My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break.”— William Shakespeare, amazon.com
“Another thing that happens in the movies: They all have these dramatic crises where everything looks bleak and you think the couple will never, ever get back together. But then they realize they can't live without each other, and in the end they live happily ever after. It's all a lie. When you hate…”— E. Lockhart, books.google.com
“A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman's love, however badly he may have treated her.”— Arthur Conan Doyle, amazon.com
“It took me two years to give him all of my heart, and he threw it away in one night.”— Dannika Dark, amazon.com
“Love hasn't got anything to do with the heart, the heart's a disgusting organ, a sort of pump full of blood. Love is primarily concerned with the lungs. People shouldn't say "she's broken my heart" but "she's stifled my lungs." Lungs are the most romantic organs: lovers and artists always contract t…”— Frederic Beigbeder, goodreads.com
“They say in this case the first love will be the last love so what if the boy that got away thinks of you as the girl that got away and what if fate pulls this trick on you too?”— Annelies, hellomissmabel.tumblr.com
“And then, just like that, my heart broke. My face crumpled, my composure went and I held him tightly and I stopped caring that he could feel the shudder of my sobbing body because grief swamped me. It overwhelmed me and tore at my heart and my stomach and my head and it pulled me under, and I couldn…”— Jojo Moyes
“But it is the nature of stars to cross, and never was Shakespeare more wrong than when he has Cassius note, ‘The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars / But in ourselves.”— John Green, amazon.com
“You can love someone so much… But you can never love someone as much as you miss them.”— John Green, amazon.com
“But Guzim’s was the face we saw every day, the man who said good morning and good night to my girl, who smiled and cooed and remarked on her growth, her smile and her first words.”— Julie Margaret Hogben, nytimes.com
“Happy families are not all alike. Some are fractured and misshapen. To appreciate them, you have to adjust your line of sight, your level of expectation.”— Lara Bazelon, nytimes.com
“There was love, an abundance of it; we just had to respect and accept that it was not the love of happily ever after.”— Lara Bazelon, nytimes.com
“I felt the acute pain of losing someone I loved and the relief of being able to retreat further inside myself without his feathery fingers of adoration checking in.”— Caroline Hurwitz, nytimes.com
“We were sick of each other but we also loved each other. He slept in my bed, where my stack of books on the bedside table cast a skyline shadow across his face.”— Caroline Hurwitz, nytimes.com
“Now I know what I want: a relationship that will fill me with dopamine and steady my heartbeat when he entwines his fingers with mine.”— Melissa Hill, nytimes.com
“Unfortunately, years of schooling can’t teach you about recovering from heartbreak the way experience can.”— Melissa Hill, nytimes.com
“Absence was in the air, but presence too. My security guard lingered nearby.”— Jennifer Couzin-Frankel, nytimes.com
“Twenty years and two children later, I am still with that same man. I don’t need him, but I want him in my life.”— Karen Rinaldi, nytimes.com