#heart

In that house, you will find my heart. You must break in, Henri, and get it back for me.' Was she mad? We had been talking figuratively. Her heart was in her body like mine. I tried to explain this to her, but she took my hand and put it against her chest. Feel for yourself. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#love #love

The strength of a love is always misjudged if we evaluate it by its immediate cause and not the stress that went before it, the dark and hollow space full of disappointment and loneliness that precedes all the great events in the heart's history. ↗

— Stefan Zweig

#heart #loneliness #love #love

. “Love doesn’t please itself by seeking revenge. Love sacrifices itself for the good of others. ↗

— Kerrelyn Sparks

#be #heart #love #my #stake

What do you say when you feel your life is taken right from your chest, even though I miraculously find myself still breathing? ↗

— Jason F. Wright

#hurt #life #love #life

As you get older, the heart shed its leaves like a tree. You cannot hold out against certain winds. Each day tears away a few more leaves; and then there are the storms that break off several branches at one go. And while nature’s greenery grows back again in the spring, that of the heart never grows back. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#life #love #life

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

— Rachel Gibson

#heartbreak #love #relationships #sad #love

Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart! ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#love #marriage #passion #love

I’m mistaken…. for thinking you were someone with a heart worth breaking. ↗

— Coco J. Ginger

#heart #heartbreak #heartbreaking #jamie-weise #love

And I see I'd love to spend the night But you found someone else to lay beside And I know it makes sense But it's like sand in my eyes Maybe I was meant to be left behind ↗

— Ron Pope

#heartbroken #love #over #relationships #sad

You put me through hell. On purpose. Made me suffer. And there’s no end in sight. I don’t know what the fuck you’re doing, ace, but this Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde shit ain’t cutting it with me. ↗

— Sylvia Day

#breakup #eva-tramell #heartbroken #love #sylvia-day