#break

The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#box #breakfast #breakfast cereal #candidates #cereal

You're gonna catch a cold from the ice inside your soul ↗

— Christina Perri

#heartbreak #music #music

I was nothing but a failure. A fucked-up, broken shame. I was nothing but this emptiness. A shell ruined by fame. Don’t be afraid to shatter, baby, if that will set you free. I’ll find you in the pieces and that will unbreak me. ↗

— Lexi Ryan

#lyrics #maggie #music #unbreak-me #music

Some people don’t realize what they have until it’s gone, but that does not always mean they are supposed to get it back. ↗

— Stephan Labossiere

#ex #exes #relationships #relationship

Why couldn't my heart have picked him? Life would have been so much easier." "Because hearts are ornery, sneaky little bastards, designed to cause misery. They want what they want, and they don't give a damn about what would make life easier or harder for the heart's owner." Della snapped. ↗

— C.C. Hunter

#della #heartbreak #love #design

I took a chance, I took a shot And you may think I’m bullet-proof, but I’m not. You took a swing, I took it hard. And down here from the ground I see who you are ↗

— Taylor Swift

#taylor-swift #chance

Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#insults #people

And I was -- this is just how I was afraid you'd take it. I knew it, that you'd think this means you were right to be afraid all the time and never feel secure or trust me. I knew it'd be 'See, you're leaving after all when you promised you wouldn't.' I knew it but I'm trying to explain anyway, okay? And I know you probably won't understand this either, but --wait-- just try to listen and maybe absorb this, okay? Ready? Me leaving is not the confirmation of all your fears about me. It is not. It's because of them. Okay? Can you see that? It's your fear I can't take. It's your distrust and fear I've been trying to fight. And I can't anymore. I'm out of gas on it. If I loved you even a little less maybe I could take it. But this is killing me, this constant feeling that I am always scaring you and never making you feel secure. Can you see that? ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#trust #love

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. ↗

— L. Frank Baum

#relationships #relationships

Perhaps this is what the stories meant when they called somebody heartsick. Your heart and your stomach and your whole insides felt empty and hollow and aching. ↗

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

#broken-hearted #heartbreak #story