“You can't expect a baboon to learn to flip on command in one session, just as you can't expect an American husband to begin regularly picking up his dirty socks by praising him once for picking up a single sock.”— Amy Sutherland, nytimes.com
“The truth feels like the biggest sucker-punch of them all: it’s not a spouse or land or a job or money that brings us happiness. Those achievements, those relationships, can enhance our happiness, yes, but happiness has to start from within.”— Laura A. Munson, nytimes.com
“When you lose someone, you get used to living day to day without them. But you’ll never get used to the ‘10 second heartbreak.’ That’s the time it takes to wake to full consciousness each day and remember.”— Nina Guilbeau, amazon.com
“The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it...”— Nicholas Sparks, amazon.com
“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens…”— Louise Erdrich, amazon.com
“You do not get to destroy someone and decide how ruined they are allowed to feel.”— Anonymous, oriejames.tumblr.com
“But as the years passed, he missed her more, not less, and his need for her became a cut that would not scar over, would not stop leaking.”— Dennis Lehane, amazon.com
“How you can already miss someone when you are in the same room with them, I have no idea. But I do.”— Karen Harrington, amazon.com
“That’s the worst way to miss somebody. When they’re right beside you and you miss them anyway.”— Pittacus Lore, amazon.com
“If you wanna know how much I miss you, try to catch rain drops, the ones you catch is how much you miss me, & the other you miss is how much I miss you!”— Anonymous, boardofwisdom.com
“Rise up, wise up, say it loud. Soul, I will not lie to you. I’m all alone. I’m still missing you, missing you, missing you.”— Tegan and Sara Quin, play.spotify.com
“I miss those kisses and the way I used to sleep in your warm hug. I miss the way you made me eat breakfasts and I miss the way you made me laugh. I miss you.”— Himmilicious, himmilicious.in
“I deleted your number. Although I know the tired digits by heart, Scout’s honor, pinky promise. I am trying to talk myself out of every emotion I’m having, and of course, it is failing to a fault. I’m still sad, I’m still mad, I’m still heartbroken, I miss you.”— Elizabeth Brooks, goodreads.com
“Whoever thought up the phrase ‘Absence makes the heart grow fonder’ was an idiot. Absence makes a bitch go crazy.”— Toni Aleo, amazon.com
“My world is a million shattered pieces put together, glued by my tears, where each piece is nothing but a reflection of YOU.”— Sanhita Baruah, sanhitabaruah9.blogspot.in
“Even the most colorful garden appears like a graveyard without you.”— Saravana Kumar Murugan, iamsarav.com
“Thou art gone from my gaze like a beautiful dream. And I seek thee in vain by the meadow and stream.”— George Linley, amazon.com
“The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected.”— Nicholas Sparks, amazon.com