“Love, the deadliest of all deadly things: It kills you both when you have it and when you don’t.”— Lauren Oliver, amazon.com
“Loving someone is giving them the power to hurt you, but trusting them not to.”— Julianne Moore, goodreads.com
“Every time, [they] break your heart. And everytime, [they] expect [you] to pick up the pieces.”— Rainbow Rowell, amazon.com
“Last time I saw you, I said that it hurt too much to love you. But I was wrong about that. The truth is it hurts too much not to love you.”— P.C. Cast, amazon.com
“Sometimes people hurt more than they can handle… And sometimes they don’t know how to ask for help. They’re so caught up in their own pain, they end up hurting everyone around them.”— Rebecca Donovan, amazon.com
“We are sitting on your bed, there is distance between us and the silence is suffocating me. I am holding my knees to my chest. My body is shaking; you are quiet. I ask you if you still love me, and you tell me that you are not sure that you ever did.”— Mariah Gordon-Dyke, booksnquotes.com
“If you love deeply, you’re going to get hurt badly. But it’s still worth it.”— C. S. Lewis, amazon.com
“Once someone's hurt you, it's harder to relax around them, harder to think of them as safe to love. But it doesn't stop you from wanting them”— Holly Black, amazon.com
“Don't matter how much it hurts, you deserve your worth I only want what's best, I don't wanna tell no lies.”— Trey Songz, open.spotify.com
“I didn't mean a word I said And if I hurt you, I'm sorry I didn't mean to lose my head And if I made you cry, I'm sorry”— Ella Fitzgerald, open.spotify.com
“Stay away from the ones you love too much. Those are the ones who will kill you.”— Donna Tartt, amazon.com
“I usually become a ghost to those who longer deserve my time. I’ve never seen a point in explaining my absence to someone who failed to appreciate my presence. You don’t owe any explanation to those who hurt you.”— R.H. Sin, rh-sin.tumblr.com
“You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways.”— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com
“A profound love between two people involves, after all, the power and chance of doing profound hurt.”— Ursula K. Le Guin, amazon.com
“People die of broken hearts. They have heart attacks. And it’s the heart that hurts most when things go wrong and fall apart.”— Markus Zusak, amazon.com
“Every broken heart has screamed at one time or another: Why can’t you see who I truly am?”— Shannon L. Alder, goodreads.com
“Never miss an opportunity to show your love, especially to those close to you, because we are always at our most cautious with them for fear of being hurt.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“They were in love, happy, content; but why was it so painful being in love, why was there so much pain in happiness?”— Virginia Woolf, amazon.com