“We were never good mornings because to have a good morning you have to stay the night. We were never just between us smiles because there was never really an us to begin with. We were never holding hands because one of us was always pulling away.”— Kendra Syrdal, thoughtcatalog.com
“Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.”— Joan Didion, amazon.com
“This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.”— Elizabeth Gilbert, amazon.com
“This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.”— Elizabeth Gilbert, amazon.com
“Think of what you gave and what you lost It ain't no better than broken hearts”— James Davis, play.spotify.com
“They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other.”— John Irving, amazon.com
“It's just a matter of willpower. The day you decide it's over, it's over. You never get over it.”— Junot Dìaz, amazon.com
“Our hearts will break – time and time and time again – over the course of our feeble existences. But they never break irreparably. They never shatter in ways we can’t fix. Our hearts are stronger than all of the things that ever break them, if we give them permission to be.”— Heidi Priebe, thoughtcatalog.com
“When your heart is broken, you plant seeds in the cracks and you pray for rain.”— Andrea Gibson, youtube.com
“‘Well,’ the Goddess said, 'your heart didn’t heal straight the last time it broke. So we’ll break it again and reset it so it heals straight this time.’”— Jane Yolen, amazon.com
“Don't be ashamed to weep. Tears are only water, and flowers, trees, and fruit cannot grow without water. But there must be sunlight also. A wounded heart will heal in time, and when it does, the memory and love of our lost ones is sealed inside to comfort us.”— Brian Jacques, amazon.com
“I felt her absence. It was like waking up one day with no teeth in your mouth. You wouldn’t need to run to the mirror to know they were gone.”— James Dashner, amazon.com
“Break my heart open. Watch what poetry comes from it. Watch how I grow fiercely into someone who will not shake because of your name.”— Lora Mathis, loramathis.com
“I’ve put off immortalizing you in saying what I have to say because once I do, you’re no longer mine. It’s putting you out into the world to be poetry for someone else. And as long as I keep you in my head, no one else can touch us. Even when there is nothing to touch. Even when there is no us.”— Kendra Syrdal, thoughtcatalog.com
“I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not fuck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together in the most innocent sense of the phrase. But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I w…”— John Green, amazon.com
“You don't know distance until you've shared your bed with somebody who's falling out of love with you.”— Beau Taplin, twitter.com
“The poets have lamented the power of time to sweep away every object of their love.”— Bertrand Russell, amazon.com
“I used to think our story was one for the books, and I was right. I’m still right. Our story is one for the books because I lived in a world that only the two of us knew. There were spectators, but none of them really knew. If I would be a book in your library, I’d be this: The book you always opene…”— Cath Pascual, thoughtcatalog.com