“You say you packed my things and divided what was mine. You're off to the mountain top, I say her skinny legs could use sun.”— Tori Amos, open.spotify.com
“Take it from me: If you hear the past speaking to you, feel it tugging at your back and running its fingers up your spine, the best thing to do—the only thing—is run.”— Lauren Oliver, amazon.com
“You can spend minutes, hours, days, weeks, or even months over-analyzing a situation; trying to put the pieces together, justifying what could’ve, would’ve happened… or you can just leave the pieces on the floor and move the f*ck on.”— Tupac Shakur, en.wikiquote.org
“I don’t get waves from missing you anymore. They’re more like tsunami tides in my eyes.”— Ed Sheeran, open.spotify.com
“The only thing I know is this: I am full of wounds and still standing on my feet.”— Nikos Kazantzakis, goodreads.com
“The sooner you make a mistake and learn to live with it, the better. You’re not responsible for everything. You can’t control the way things end up.”— Courtney Summers, amazon.com
“Soon I will sleep, and my brain will begin to delete everything. Tomorrow I will go through it all again.”— S. J. Watson, amazon.com
“How do you go on when, in your heart, you begin to understand there is no going back? There are some things that time cannot mend. Some hurts that go too deep.”— J.R.R Tolkien, amazon.com
“The broken heart. You think you will die, but you just keep living, day after day after terrible day.”— Charles Dickens, amazon.com
“Indeed if memory helps us to survive, forgetting allows us to go on living. How could we go on with our daily lives, if we remained constantly aware of the dangers and ghosts surrounding us?”— Elie Wiesel, nobelprize.org
“When your heart is broken you plant seeds in the cracks and pray for rain.”— Andrea Gibson, ohandreagibson.tumblr.com
“It’s so hard to forget pain, but it’s even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com
“Love lasts about seven years. That’s how long it takes for the cells of the body to totally replace themselves.”— Françoise Sagan, goodreads.com
“You’ve got to use it, the pain. Use it as fuel to move past the torment, to the light at the end of the tunnel.”— Thomas E. Sniegoski, amazon.com
“It is always important to know when something has reached its end. Closing circles, shutting doors, finishing chapters, it doesn’t matter what we call it; what matters is to leave in the past those moments in life that are over.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“Someday you’re gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You’ll see that you were in mourning and your heart was broken, but your life was changing.”— Elizabeth Gilbert, amazon.com
“How many young women have I watched weep their days away over disinterested men? To all of them, I want to say, Look up. Get a life, because he has.”— Cammie McGovern, amazon.com
“Of course if he wanted to escape, he could do so. The prison was, after all, his own heart.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“They tell you you’ll forget how it used to be. You’ll get used to it, that it’s better to move on. They don’t realize you can’t. You’re not the same person anymore.”— Amanda Sun, amazon.com