#heartbreak

"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."

"Growth in love comes from a place of absence, where the imagination is left to it’s own devices and creates you to be much more then reality would ever allow."

"If I love you more than you love me, I’m as good as dead. Yet I can’t make myself take it back. I can’t just walk away from you, because every time you pass by me without smiling, without touching my hand, or at least making eye contact, it feels like I’m dying inside."

"I wear a necklace of hope with pearly beads. When I met you, it broke, and the beads spilled all over the floor, into the gutters."

"Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not towisdom, but to scar tissue and callus."

"I mean, at the end of the day, what the hell does it matter who I end up with if it can't be you?"

"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..."

"No matter how bad your heart is broken, the world doesn't stop for your grief."

"He needs "space"and "time,"as if this were physics and not a human relationship."

"What's the difference?"You ask meThe difference is, a smile touches my lipsWhen I remember both the memory of you entering my lifeAnd the memory of you leaving my life"

"Sometimes you break your heart in the right way, if you know what I mean."

"Do you like me?”No answer.Silence bounced, fell off his tongueand sat between usand clogged my throat.It slaughtered my trust.It tore cigarettes out of my mouth.We exchanged blind words,and I did not cry,I did not beg,but blackness filled my ears,blackness lunged in my heart,and something that had been good,a sort of kindly oxygen,turned into a gas oven."

"It shattered something inside me that hadn't been broken before."

"You cannot be with someone just because you don’t want to hurt him. You have your own happiness to think about."

"Everyones greatest fantasy is to walk away from the life (they think)you lead"

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

"One of the most difficult things he'd ever done was turn away and leave her standing in the shadows."

"I think you are wrong to want a heart. It makes most people unhappy. If you only knew it, you are in luck not to have a heart."

"The heart was made to be broken."

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