“Don’t get caught up in your story. When bad things happen, it’s very easy to get caught up in the drama. We can get a lot of things from repeating our story to others such as sympathy, support, and encouragement. But wallowing in that story keeps you living in the past and not focused on being prese…”— Afi Harrington, tinybuddha.com
“Sometimes you’re going to have to let one person go a thousand different times, a thousand different ways, and there’s nothing pathetic or abnormal about that. You are human.”— Heidi Priebe, thoughtcatalog.com
“It is not human nature to let go. We are, at our core, territorial creatures. We fight to hold onto what we love. Giving up isn’t in any way instinctual.”— Heidi Priebe, thoughtcatalog.com
“You could come knocking on my door five years from now and I would open my arms wider and say ‘come here, it’s been too long, it felt like home with you.’”— Azra T., 5000letters.tumblr.com
“Your soul has fallen to bits and pieces. Good. Rearrange them to suit yourself.”— Hermann Hesse, amazon.com
“Love is not the last room: there are others after it, the whole length of the corridor that has no end.”— Yehuda Amichai, loc.gov
“You can drive yourself crazy, or you can get over it. The choice is yours.”— Stephen Holden, nytimes.com
“Many of us find ourselves saying “BUT HE WAS SO GREAT!” Yes, and the people who got on the Titanic thought they were going on vacation. Things changed and it’s important to remember that they did.”— Greg Behrendt, amazon.com
“Most of us are so enthralled with the scary tigers in our minds—our stories about loneliness, rejection, grief, worthlessness—that we don’t realize they are in the past. They can’t hurt us anymore. We are protecting ourselves from losses that have already happened. It’s possible to come back. To see…”— Geneen Roth, amazon.com
“How do you pick up the threads of an old life? 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… that have taken hold.”— J. R. R. Tolkein, Frodo, amazon.com
“The person you loved took a good long look at the awesomeness that is you, evaluated your relationship together, and said, “No, thanks. I’ll try my luck elsewhere.” That alone should make you realize that it wasn’t a match made in heaven.”— Greg Behrendt, amazon.com
“Sadness does not last forever when we walk in the direction of that which we always desired.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“However good we are, however correctly we seek to lead our lives, tragedies do occur. We can blame others, look for justification, imagine how our lives would have been different without them. But none of that matters: they have happened, and that is that. From this point on, it is necessary that we…”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way possible.”— Paulo Coelho, 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
“You ask everybody you know: How long does it usually take to get over it?There are many formulas. One year for every year you dated. Two years for every year you dated. It's just a matter of will power: The day you decide it's over, it's over.”— Junot Dìaz, amazon.com
“And that's when I know it's over. As soon as you start thinking about the beginning, it's the end.”— Junot Dìaz, amazon.com
“Things aren’t the way they were before, you wouldn’t even recognize me anymore, not that you knew me back then but it all comes back to me in the end.”— Linkin Park, amazon.com
“Maybe we feel empty because we leave pieces of ourselves in everything we used to love.”— R. M. Drake, facebook.com