“Your fingertips across my skin The palm trees swaying in the wind Images You sang me Spanish lullabies The sweetest sadness in your eyes Clever trick Well, I never want to see you unhappy I thought you'd want the same for me Goodbye, my almost lover Goodbye, my hopeless dream I'm trying not to think…”— A Fine Frenzy, azlyrics.com
“Stone cold You're dancing with her While I'm staring at my phone Stone cold Stone cold I was your amber, but now She's your shade of gold Stone cold Baby God knows I try to feel Happy for you Know that I am Even if I can't understand I'll take the pain Give me the truth Me and my heart We'll make it…”— Demi Lovato, azlyrics.com
“Tears and eyes can try But I know Burning like the wire in lightbulbs It could be in the way you bleed me And I know You're under my skin Running in my bloodstream These scars are the way that you loved me I guess that you had to leave a tattoo On my skin Running in my bloodstream These scars are th…”— Hilary Duff, azlyrics.com
“I hate to turn up out of the blue uninvited But I couldn't stay away, I couldn't fight it. I had hoped you'd see my face and that you'd be reminded That for me it isn't over. Never mind, I'll find someone like you I wish nothing but the best for you too Don't forget me, I beg I'll remember you said,…”— Adele, azlyrics.com
“I promise I'm not trying to make your life harder Or return to where we were But I will go down with this ship And I won't put my hands up and surrender There will be no white flag above my door I'm in love and always will be.”— DIDO, azlyrics.com
“All I can ever be to you is a darkness that we knew And this regret I got accustomed to Once it was so right When we were at our height Waiting for you in the hotel at night I knew I hadn't met my match But every moment we could snatch I don't know why I got so attached It's my responsibility You do…”— Amy Winehouse, metrolyrics.com
“Staring at the bottom of your glass Hoping one day you'll make a dream last But dreams come slow and they go so fast You see her when you close your eyes Maybe one day you'll understand why Everything you touch surely dies.”— Passenger, azlyrics.com
“I was the one you always dreamed of You were the one I tried to draw How dare you say it's nothin to me? Baby, you're the only light I ever saw I'll make the most of all the sadness You'll be a bitch because you can You'll try to hit me just hurt me So you leave me feeling dirty Because you can't un…”— John Mayer, play.google.com
“I told you to be patient I told you to be fine I told you to be balanced I told you to be kind In the morning I'll be with you But it will be a different "kind" I'll be holding all the tickets And you'll be owning all the fines.”— Bon Iver, azlyrics.com
“Well, maybe we got lost in translation, maybe I asked for too much, But maybe this thing was a masterpiece 'til you tore it all up. Running scared, I was there, I remember it all too well. Hey, you call me up again just to break me like a promise. So casually cruel in the name of being honest. I'm a…”— Taylor Swift, azlyrics.com
“The broken heart. You think you will die, but you just keep living, day after day after terrible day.”— Charles Dickens, amazon.com
“When a person tells you that you hurt them, you don't get to decide that you didn't.”— Louis CK, huffingtonpost.com
“When someone says that their love will never die, it means that their love is not real, for everything that is real dies.”— Craig Ferguson, amazon.com
“I'm all out of midnight phone calls and flowers sent to your door. I'm out of throwing letters off fire escapes and drawing a cathedral in the sand. I'm out of spray-painting your name on freeway overpasses. I'm low on cute names given between blankets at 9am. I've got no dramatic displays of public…”— Iain Thomas, amazon.ca
“We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.”— Tom Robbins, thoughtcatalog.com
“Hearts don’t break, y’all, they bruise and get better. We were never tragedies. We were emergencies. You call 9 – 1 – 1. Tell them I’m having a fantastic time.”— Buddy Wakefield, buddywakefield.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
“She wanted to tell him, “There is no week that passed that I did not think of you.” But was that true? Of course there were weeks during which he was folded under layers of her life, but it felt true.”— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, amazon.com