#breaking-up

"I cannot compromise my respect for your love. You can keep your love, I will keep my respect."

"They feel life is for the taking, and that everyone deserves happiness no matter what the cost. I must remember these tricks if I ever decide to have my soul surgically removed."

"I remember one desolate Sunday night, wondering: Is this how I´m going to spend the rest of my life? Marrid to someone who is perpetually distracted and somewhat wistful, as though a marvelous party is going on in the next room, which but for me he could be attending?"

"One of the best times for figuring out who you are & what you really want out of life? Right after a break-up."

"When we are in love, we are convinced nobody else will do. But as time goes, others do do, and often do do, much much better."

"Two words. Three vowels. Four constenants. Seven letters. It can either cut you open to the core and leave you in ungodly pain or it can free your soul and lift a tremendous weight off you shoulders. The phrase is: It's over."

"Just because a relationship ends, it doesn't mean it's not worth having."

"Moving on is easy. It's staying moved on that's trickier."

"I haven’t been very impressed lately.By people,or places,or the way someone said he loved me and then slowly changed his mind."

"In this storyI am the poetYou're the poetry."

"The quickest way to rectify that mistake (choosing the wrong person) is by learning from that, moving on, and choosing much more wisely in the future."

"To love someone enough to let them go, you had to let them go forever or you did not love them that much."

"The snag about marriage is, it isn´t worth the divorce."

"Even on my weakest daysI get a little bit stronger"

"Everything else has vanished, so you take them now. Maybe if you're the one keeping them, I'll be the one feeling better."

"So many events and moments that seemed insignificant add up. I remember how for the last Valentine´s Day, N gave flowers but no card. In restaurants, he looked off into the middle distance while my hand would creep across the table to hold his. He would always let go first. I realize I can´t remember his last spontaneous gesture of affection."

"Surprises, I feel now, are primarily a form of violence."

"I once broke up with a boy because he wrote me an awful poem."

"God is great and God is good,"Lisa says. "But where are the Apache attack helicopters when you need them?"

"We ruined each other by being together. We destroyed each other’s dreams."