#hurt

It was like we were both trying to hold onto something that was slipping through our fingers, and we didn't understand why. I understood more than him, of course, but just barely. I would never fully understand how I could have ever strayed from such a warm, sensitive and caring soul. ↗

— S.C. Stephens

#love-hurts #regret #thoughtless #love

Love hurts, if rejected or betrayed. If not at all, then love is all around. ↗

— Toba Beta

#love

I had to stop linking every single thing that happened to me with Kennedy. Realization dawned then, that he was still my default. Over the past three years, we’d become each other’s habit. And though he’d broken his habit of me when he walked away, I’d not broken my habit of him. I was still tethering him to my present, to my future. The truth was, he now belonged only to my past, and it was time I began to accept it, as much as it hurt to do so. ↗

— Tammara Webber

#love-hurts #love

I've heard the saying you can't miss what you never had. Only I did. The disappointment hurt ↗

— Wendy Higgins Sweet Evil

#hurt #love #sweet-evil #love

For a split second I felt as though she was nobody special in the larger scheme of my life. She was just some girl who had tied me to her leg to help her sink when she jumped off the bridge. Then I blinked and was in love with her again. ↗

— Miranda July

#love-hurts #lovers #life

You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices. I hope she likes hers. ↗

— John Green

#love #love

I thought about how love was always the thing that did that - smashed into you, left you raw. The deeper you loved, the deeper it hurt. ↗

— Wally Lamb

#love #love

When you truly start to care about someone you become vulnerable to all sorts of things. ↗

— Neal Shusterman

#love

You whispered my full name and we fell asleep in each other's arms and I remember how the next morning you were gone, completely gone, and nothing in my bed or the house could have proven otherwise. ↗

— Junot Díaz

#love

Do you ever dangle your toes over the precipice, dare the cliff to crumble, defy the frozen deity to suffer the sun, thaw feather and bone, take wing to fly you home? ↗

— Ellen Hopkins

#love #love