#heartbreak

"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"

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

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

"Listen to God with a broken heart. He is not only the doctor who mends it, but also the father who wipes away the tears."

"...what happens when you returnand find nothingbut a hollowed shell,shingles and floor,walls and echoesand the light that lead you herehas now burned outand the ones who built ithave traveled afarand you cant go to them,no matter what shoes you wear."

"I called his broken promise heartbreaking, and he called it growing up. Oh, that’s mature—blame it on maturity."

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

"I won't ever leave you, even though you're always leaving me."

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

"It is our wounds that create in us a desire to reach for miracles. The fulfillment of such miracles depends on whether we let our wounds pull us down or lift us up towards our dreams."

"the saddest thing is to bea minute to someone,when you've made them your eternity."

"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."

"I'll tell you something, Harpy,"he said, his voice almost a whisper now. "It never even occurred to me that we wouldn't make it. And it never occurred to you that we would. You were just waiting for us to go down in flames. I thought we could get through anything."

"Love, it never dies. It never goes away, it never fades, so long as you hang on to it. Love can make you immortal"

"...I told him a story of two people. Two people who shouldn't have met, and who didn't like each other much when they did, but who found they were the only two people in the world who could possibly have understood each other."

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

"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."

"He looked at me intently, from what seemed behind the veil of a grave experience. Then slowly and prophetically, he said the scariest thing I'd ever heard: "Because the answer to a heartfelt question, Jack, will always break your heart."

"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"

"The saddest thing about love, Joe, is that not only the love cannot last forever, but even the heartbreak is soon forgotten."