“In every shining moment of happiness is that drop of poison: the knowledge that pain will come again.”— Jack Thorne, Albus Dumbledore, amazon.com
“Believe me, every heart has its secret sorrows, which the world knows not, and oftentimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad.”— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, amazon.com
“The scariest thing about distance is that you don’t know whether they’ll miss you or forget you.”— Nicholas Sparks, amazon.com
“There's a dark cloud hanging over my heart I can't see where it ends, or where it starts. I should get over you, but baby, it's so hard, with this dark cloud hanging over my heart.”— Miranda Lambert, youtube.com
“I loved a man who had opened up a world to me but hadn’t loved me enough to stay in it.”— Jojo Moyes
“And then, just like that, my heart broke. My face crumpled, my composure went and I held him tightly and I stopped caring that he could feel the shudder of my sobbing body because grief swamped me. It overwhelmed me and tore at my heart and my stomach and my head and it pulled me under, and I couldn…”— Jojo Moyes
“Lise has been driven to distraction by working in the same accountants' office for sixteen years.”— Muriel Spark, amazon.com
“If she's sad or upset or angry, she needs to be alone. She fears a man dismissing her womanly tears.”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.com
“I am not angry or sad or happy to see you. I could not give a shit. You don't even ripple.”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.com
“You whispered my full name and we fell asleep in each other's arms and I remember how the next morning you were gone, completely gone, and nothing in my bed or the house could have proven otherwise.”— Junot Dìaz, amazon.com
“You keep waiting for the heaviness to leave you. You keep waiting for the moment you never think about the ex again. It doesn't come.”— Junot Dìaz, amazon.com
“We spoke endlessly about everything and nothing. Now, I cannot even remember the sound of your voice.”— Michael Faudet, amazon.com
“He nods, as if to acknowledge that endings are almost always a little sad, even when there is something to look forward to on the other side.”— Emily Giffin, amazon.com
“The saddest word in the whole wide world is the word almost. He was almost in love. She was almost too good for him. He almost stopped her. She almost waited. He almost lived. They almost made it.”— Nikita Gill, shopcatalog.com