#heartbreak

"After all my erstwhile dear, my no longer cherished; Need we say it was not love, just because it perished?"

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

"The feeling of loving her and being loved by her welled up in him, and he could taste the adrenaline in the back of his throat, and maybe it wasn't over, and maybe he could feel her hand in his again and hear her loud, brash voice contort itself into a whisper to say I-love-you as if it were a secret, and an immense one."

"She hardly ever thought of him. He had worn a place for himself in some corner of her heart, as a sea shell, always boring against the rock, might do. The making of the place had been her pain. But now the shell was safely in the rock. It was lodged, and ground no longer."

"Someday you're gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You'll see that you were in mourning and your heart was broken, but your life was changing..."

"And I'm dying to know, is it killing you like it's killing me? And the story of us looks a lot like a tragedy now."

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

"To douchebags!"he said, gesturing to Brad. "And to girls that break your heart,"he bowed his head to me. His eyes lost focus. "And to the absolute fucking horror of losing your best friend because you were stupid enough to fall in love with her."

"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..."

"younot wanting mewasthe beginning of mewanting myselfthank you"

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

"Ah, if everyone was as sensitive as you! There's no girl who hasn't gone through that. And it's all so unimportant!"

"She had loved him for such a long time, she thought. How was it that she did now know him at all?"

"Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.From an Irish headstone"

"When you're missing a peice of yourself, aching, gut wrenching emptiness begins to take over. Until you find the link that completes your very soul, the feeling will never go away. Most people find a way to fill this void, material possessions, a string of relationships, affairs, food...I bear my soul, with words, for all to see."

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

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

"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."

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

"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."