“I'd be so lonely Where am I gonna go if you turn me down Why blacken all my skies of blue”— George Gershwin, open.spotify.com
“Just like letters on the sand where waves were I feel you’ll disappear to a far off place I miss you again and miss you more”— IU, open.spotify.com
“Make sure you eat well, because it’ll all pass You’ll be able to fall asleep like you did before I really mean it You have the right to be happier”— IU, open.spotify.com
“'My heart's broken', he thought. 'If I feel this way my heart must be broken.'”— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com
“She's never found peace since she left his arms, and never will again till she's as he is now!”— Thomas Hardy, amazon.com
“If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain.”— Emily Dickinson, amazon.com
“I want to talk about what happened without mentioning how much it hurt. There has to be a way. To care for the wounds without reopening them. To name the pain without inviting it back into me.”— Lora Mathis, loramathis.com
“Except I think it feels more like an empty stomach than a broken heart. An aching hollowness that food can't cure. You know. You've felt it yourself, I bet. You hurt all the time, you're restless, you can't think straight, you sort of wish you were dead but what you really want is for everything to…”— Richard Laymon, amazon.com
“I have tried to let you go and I cannot. I cannot stop thinking about you. I cannot stop dreaming about you.”— Erin Morgenstern, amazon.com
“Your heart’s broken but your whole body hurts. Then you get into bed at night, thankful to be back in a safe haven under the covers where you can cry alone and not be judged for being so weak to another human being, when all of our lives we are taught to be independent. And after a silent moment in…”— Kate Dillen, thoughtcatalog.com
“I've always protected myself when it comes to love. And maybe that's the problem. By not letting myself get hurt now, it ripples into much bigger pain later.”— Jay Asher, Carolyn Mackler, amazon.com
“I know what it’s like. When you lose someone who is your home, you know, your only home in the world. When that happens, you think, oh fuck! I should’ve had a backup home. Another person, a place a thing, something to make me feel safe and I don’t have that… and now I’m lost.”— Matt Drake, Charlie Countryman, Shia LaBeouf, amazon.com
“There are those hearts, reader, that never mend again once they are broken. Or if they do mend, they heal themselves in a crooked and lopsided way, as if sewn together by a careless craftsman.”— Kate DiCamillo, amazon.com
“Whatever you love passionately always destroys you in the end. But how can I explain what has happened to me? How can I make anyone even understand that I can write about it? I don’t know, I don’t know any more; all I know is that it is so.”— Guy de Maupassant, amazon.com
“Love me, because love doesn't exist, and I have tried everything that does.”— Jonathan Safran Foer, amazon.com
“'Well, that's the thing,' she said, ‘your first love isn’t the first person you give your heart to— it’s the first one who breaks it.'”— Lang Leav, amazon.com
“I'm so sorry that I wasted your time because you really do mean a lot to me and I hope you have a very nice life because I really think you deserve it. I really do. I hope you do, too. Okay, then. Goodbye.”— Stephen Chbosky, amazon.com