#heartbreak

I just wanted to tell you that I understand if you go. It’s okay if you have to leave us. It’s okay if you want to stop fighting. ↗

— Gayle Forman

#fight #heartbreak #letting-go #life #reality

They always prided themselves on looking youthful. “Forty’s the new thirty,” they’d joke. Until heartbreak and grief enter your life, and then forty’s the new one hundred. ↗

— Melina Marchetta

#georgie #grief #heartbreak #life

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. ↗

— John Greene

#heartbreak #i-love-you #love #love

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

— Katherine Owen

#heartbreak #infidelity #love #relationships #trust

You really want to know what else it was my mom said about you?" he asked. She shook her head. He didn't seem to notice. "She said you'd break my heart," he told her, and left. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#clary-fray #heartbreak #love #simon-lewis #love

It hurts to love. It's like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#love #love-hurts #love

Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met -- or never parted -- we had ne'er been broken-hearted ↗

— Robert Burns

#love #love

Not like a heart, which let people in without permission, held them in a special place she never had any say in and then yearned for them to remain there longer than they planned. ↗

— Cecelia Ahern

#love #love

And if her heart was breaking with every step she took, at least he would never know. ↗

— Susan Andersen

#love #relationship #love

I knew it would be all of those things and so much more to me, but it was his heart I was yanking from his chest with my decision, and that’s what mattered to me. I was giving up a piece of my own as well, but it was a choice. His was just collateral. ↗

— Rachael Wade

#loss #love #resistance-trilogy #love