“I’m sorry I called myself a dog. I’m not sorry I called you a coward.”— Trista Mateer, tristamateer.com
“You’re not my biggest heartbreak anymore. What a delicate relief to both of us.”— Trista Mateer, tristamateer.com
“I just want to leave your name on a page somewhere and never need to come back to it.”— Trista Mateer, tristamateer.com
“The holes in your life are permanent. You have to grow around them, like tree roots around concrete; you mold yourself through the gaps.”— Paula Hawkins, amazon.com
“I have no need for the past, I thought, like a child. I did not consider that the past might have a need for me.”— Jonathan Safran Foer, amazon.com
“The end of suffering does not justify the suffering, and so there is no end to suffering.”— Jonathan Safran Foer, amazon.com
“Whether you’re riding high on good fortune or you’re wallowing in the dumps of tough times, things move on and so will you. Be grateful when things are good. And be grateful for the things that are good when other things are crumbling around you.”— Mary Ray, forbes.com
“Hey, remember that person you thought you couldn't live without? Look at you living and shit.”— Unknown, facebook.com
“Sometimes you need to remind yourself that you were the one who carried you through the heartache. You are the one who sits with the cold body on the shower floor, and picks it up. You are the one who feeds it, who clothes it, who tucks it into bed, and you should be proud of that. Having the streng…”— Anonymous, raihaniac.tumblr.com
“You can't keep blaming yourself. Just blame yourself once, and move on.”— Matt Groening, Homer Simpson, amazon.com
“It's my responsibility, And you don't owe nothing to me, But to walk away I have no capacity.”— Amy Winehouse, azlyrics.com
“What’s that line from T.S. Eliot? To arrive at the place where you started, but to know it for the first time. I’m able to write about a breakup from a different place. Same brokenness. Same rock-bottom. But a little more informed, now I’m older. Thank God for growing up.”— Alanis Morrisette, theguardian.com
“He loved me. He loved me, but he doesn’t love me anymore, and it’s not the end of the world.”— Jennifer Weiner, amazon.com
“For how imperiously, how coolly, in disregard of all one's feelings, does the hard, cold, uninteresting course of daily realities move on! Still we must eat, and drink, and sleep, and wake again—still bargain, buy, sell, ask and answer questions—pursue, in short, a thousand shadows, though all inter…”— Harriet Beecher Stowe, amazon.com