#heartbreak

How can you smile as though your whole life hasn't capsized ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#life

The very best and the very worst of life will come from [their] ability to love strangers. ↗

— Simon Van Booy

#hurt #life #love #life

When we are in love, we are convinced nobody else will do. But as time goes, others do do, and often do do, much much better. ↗

— Coco J. Ginger

#breakups #heartbreak #in-love #jamie-weise #love

What do I have to do to make you see she can't love you like me ↗

— Sugarland

#couples #heartbreak #love #relationships #sad

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

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

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

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

— Coco J. Ginger

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

Do you like me?” No answer. Silence bounced, fell off his tongue and sat between us and 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. ↗

— Anne Sexton

#love #rejection #love

By dint of waiting, he hoped his heart would wear out and stop beating. What other way was there to stop loving someone? ↗

— Anne-Laure Bondoux

#love #love