#heartbreak

"I know my heart will never be the sameBut I'm telling myself I'll be okay"

"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."

"Sometimes you get everything you ever wanted, only it doesn't look like what you wanted anymore."

"Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall."

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"For there are two kinds of forgiveness in the world: the one you practice because everything really is all right, and what went before is mended. The other kind of forgiveness you practice because someone needs desperately to be forgiven, or because you need just as badly to forgive them, for a heart can grab hold of old wounds and go sour as milk over them."

"We walked to meet each other up at the time of our love and then we have been irresistibly drifting in different directions, and there's no altering that."

"There are still Ava Maddoxes to find and sets to create and girls to kiss and colleges to attend. It's possible that someday I will hear a patsy Cline song and the heartbreak will barely register. It will be some distant, buried feeling. I won't remember how much it once hurt."

"I'm desperately trying to have my heart accept the fact that I would be better off if I let go, I can't undo what's been done, nor am I able to forget, but together, me, my heart and my soul, we can work on what's ahead, if we team up we can write another story...Michael Hayssus, A Diary Of Hurts"

"Was it hard?"I ask.Letting go?"Not as hard as holding on to something that wasn't real."

"She had not made a decision to give up sex, only the clamor of romance, because it was exhausting her, doing her no good and too much harm..."

"There are all kinds of ways for a relationship to be tested, even broken, some, irrevocably; it’s the endings we’re unprepared for."

"Sometimes it takes a heartbreak to shake us awake & help us see we are worth so much more than we're settling for."

"Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option."

"You can’t turn love on and off like a light switch, no matter how hard you try. All you can do is wall it off, one brick at a time, until you’ve created an impenetrable fortress around your emotions. And once that fortress is built, you camouflage it so well that even you can’t see it anymore."

"I was in the biggest breakdown of my life when I stopped crying long enough to let the words of my epiphany really sink in. That whore, karma, had finally made her way around, and had just bitch-slapped me right across the face. The realization only made me cry harder."

"You can only trust your emotions as you can lie to yourself with your brain but not your heart."

"You can obsess and obsess over how things ended—what you did wrong or could have done differently—but there's not much of a point. It's not like it'll change anything. So really, why worry?"

"Thoughts are as simple as the process…a message from the soul; conveyed through the heart; received in the mind"

"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."