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Life is hope.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
You can do extraordinary deeds.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
I love who I am. I am beautiful creation of God.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
I know my rightful place as a child of God
— I am blessed and highly favoured.I am protected and delivered from every evil.I am redeem and set free from all bondages in Jesus Name.
People will try to frustrate you in life. But you have to decide to stay determined.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
You must be determined to chase your dreams.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The promise of a hopeful future is motivation for the pursuit of my dreams.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I am ordinary person with extraordinary curiosity.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I am a queen because I know how to govern myself.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
May love binds all mankind to live in harmony.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The day of birth is a miraculous day.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Education is a great treasure.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Oh, I wouldn't mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.
— John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.
— Mark Twain
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
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
Hearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they did, but we don't.
— Stephen King, Hearts in Atlantis
Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime.
— Mineko Iwasaki
I don't know you. The only thing I know about you is, you're reading this. I don't know if your happy or not; I don't know whether you're young or not. I sort of hope you're young and sad. If you're old and happy, I can imagine that you'll smile to yourself when you hear me going, he broke my heart. You'll remember someone who broke your heart, and you'll think to yourself, Oh yes, i remember how that feels. But you can't, you smug old git. Oh you'll remember feeling sort of plesantly sad. You might remember listening to music and eating chocolates in your room, or walking along the embankment on your own, wrapped up in a winter coat and feeling lonely and brave. But can you remember how with every mouthful of food it felt like you were biting into your own stomach? Can you remember the taste of red wine as it came back up and into the toilet bowl? Can you remember dreaming every night that you were still together, that he was talking to you gently and touching you, so that every morning when you woke up you had to go through it all over again?
— Nick Hornby, A Long Way Down
Saying his name stabbed my heart, like someone had ripped through my carefully stitched up world and exposed the infected, pulsing red tissue that I thought was healing. 
— Colleen Houck
Don't cry when the sun is gone, because the tears won't let you see the stars.
— Violeta Parra
In an undertone, I murmured, "This isn't over. I won't give up on you.""I've given up on you," he said back, voice also soft. "Love fades. Mine has.
— Richelle Mead, Spirit Bound
Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
— Fulton J. Sheen
Out of the millions and millions of people that inhabit this planet, he is one of the tiny few I can never have.
— Tabitha Suzuma, Forbidden
I was crying a little for the boy I had wanted him to be and the boy he hadn’t turned out to be.
— Gabrielle Zevin, Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac
It is because I think so much of warm and sensitive hearts, that I would spare them from being wounded.
— Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
It's very easy to get a boy to leave the room.It's much harder to get him to leave your thoughts.
— Elizabeth Eulberg, Prom and Prejudice
You ask everybody you know: How long does it usually take to get over it?There are many formulas. One year for every year you dated. Two years for every year you dated. It's just a matter of will power: The day you decide it's over, it's over. You never get over it.
— Junot Díaz, This Is How You Lose Her
If you're gonna leave, I wish you'd just leave. Why do you keep coming back if you're not going to stay? Because even when you're gone, you're never really gone... I won't get over it if you keep coming back. Losing you once was hard enough. And now you're here again and everything's coming back. I'm going to get screwed. And I can't do it again.
— Brodi Ashton, Everneath
Well, you can't have heartbreak without love," Dan pointed out. "If your heart was really broken, then at least you know you really loved him.
— Leila Sales, Past Perfect
You broke me bodily.The heart ain't the half of it,And I'll never learn to laugh at itIn my good natured way.In fact, I'm laughing less in general,But I learned a lot at my own funeral.And I knew you'd be the death of me,So I guess that's the price I pay.
— Ani DiFranco
And anything that might hurt me would just make me stronger in the end.
— Elizabeth Eulberg, The Lonely Hearts Club
I think,” Jace said, “that you don’t want to tell your secrets, so you decided to break up with Alec because...
— Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire
You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
— Truman Capote
It is a dull sensation, your heart breaking, like the sound of a pebble dropping on the sand. Not a shattering, not a tearing apart, there is nothing shrill or grandiose about the sensation. It is merely an internal realization that something treasured you never knew you had is leaving forever.
— Samantha Bruce-Benjamin, The Art of Devotion
He wouldn't let his servants change the sheets on his bed because they still smelled like her, because he went to sleep dreaming that she was still lying beside him.
— Sarah J. Maas, Crown of Midnight
It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
— Toni Morrison, Sula
My heart's broken,' he thought. 'If I feel this way my heart must be broken.
— Ernest Hemingway, The Complete Short Stories
Sometimes... Sometimes our hearts...crack a little.
— Brodi Ashton, Everneath
I see how it is,” I snapped. “You were all in favor of me breaking the tattoo and thinking on my own—but that’s only okay if it’s convenient for you, huh? Just like your ‘loving from afar’ only works if you don’t have an opportunity to get your hands all over me. And your lips. And . . . stuff.”Adrian rarely got mad, and I wouldn’t quite say he was now. But he was definitely exasperated. “Are you seriously in this much self-denial, Sydney? Like do you actually believe yourself when you say you don’t feel anything? Especially after what’s been happening between us?”“Nothing’s happening between us,” I said automatically. “Physical attraction isn’t the same as love. You of all people should know that.”“Ouch,” he said. His expression hadn’t changed, but I saw hurt in his eyes. I’d wounded him. “Is that what bothers you? My past? That maybe I’m an expert in an area you aren’t?”“One I’m sure you’d just love to educate me in. One more girl to add to your list of conquests.”He was speechless for a few moments and then held up one finger. “First, I don’t have a list.” Another finger, “Second, if I did have a list, I could find someone a hell of lot less frustrating to add to it.” For the third finger, he leaned toward me. “And finally, I know that you know you’re no conquest, so don’t act like you seriously think that. You and I have been through too much together. We’re too close, too connected. I wasn’t that crazy on spirit when I said you’re my flame in the dark. We chase away the shadows around each other. Our backgrounds don’t matter. What we have is bigger than that. I love you, and beneath all that logic, calculation, and superstition, I know you love me too. Running away and fleeing all your problems isn’t going to change that. You’re just going to end up scared and confused.”“I already feel that way,” I said quietly.Adrian moved back and leaned into his seat, looking tired. “Well, that’s the most accurate thing you’ve said so far.”I grabbed the basket and jerked open the car door. Without another word, I stormed off, refusing to look back in case he saw the tears that had inexplicably appeared in my eyes. Only, I wasn’t sure exactly which part of our conversation I was most upset about.
— Richelle Mead, The Indigo Spell
Either give me your hand, or end it now, and put us both out of our misery
— Judith McNaught, Paradise
I'm not supposed to miss you, I'm not supposed to care
— Deborah Cox
No!You cant get this close to me and then push me away.
— Courtney Allison Moulton, Angelfire
Isn’t that the greatest tragedy? When someone rejects us, no matter how they abuse our love, we hope against reason that somehow they will come back to us.
— Suzanne Elizabeth Anderson, Mrs. Tuesday's Departure
I wouldn't have been sent back to help you," Tristan continued. "I wouldn't have been made an angel if it weren't important that you live, Ivy. I want you to be mine" -Ivy could hear the pain in his voice- "but you're not.""I am!" she cried out loud."We're on different sides of a river," he said, "and it's a river that neither of us can cross. You were meant for somebody else.
— Elizabeth Chandler, Kissed by an Angel/The Power of Love/Soulmates
Then his heart, now broken into a thousand pieces, slowly began to turn to ice.
— Morgan Rhodes, Falling Kingdoms
What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering. For weeks, Marianne, I've had this pressing on me without being at liberty to speak of it to a single creature. It was forced on me by the very person whose prior claims ruined all my hope. I have endured her exultations again and again whilst knowing myself to be divided from Edward forever. Believe me, Marianne, had I not been bound to silence I could have provided proof enough of a broken heart, even for you.
— Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
My heart no longer felt as if it belonged to me. It now felt as it had been stolen, torn from my chest by someone who wanted no part of it.
— Meredith T. Taylor, Churning Waters
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, The Passion
Eleanor went to her room "where she was free to think and be wretched.
— Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
i can not go through the ocean. i can not drive the streets at night. i can not wake up in the morning without you on my mind. and so your gone and im haunted i bet you are just fine. did i make it that easy to walk right in and out of my life.
— A Fine Frenzy
I was even a little glad that if it wasn’t going to be me she wanted, it was going to be someone who really deserved her.
— Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes
Some things just can't be put back together. Some things can never be fixed. Two broken pieces can't make a lot of anything anymore. But at least he had the broken pieces.
— Jamie Ford
I think falling in love should come with a warning label: CAUTION—side effects may include breaking up, accompanied by heartache, severe mood swings, withdrawal from people and life itself, wasted hours obsessing over bitter reflections, a need to destroy something (preferably something expensive that shatters), uncontrollable tear ducts, stress, a loss of appetite (Cheetos and Dr. Pepper exempt), a bleak and narrow outlook on the future, and an overall hatred of everyone and everything (especially all the happy couples you see strolling hand-in-hand, placed on your path only to exacerbate your isolation and misery). All above reactions will be intensified with the consumption of one or more alcoholic beverages.
— Katie Kacvinsky, Second Chance
Heartbreak could be lived with if it weren't accompanied by regret.
— Laura Kasischke, The Raising
He can touch your soul. And there is a difference between having your heart break and having your soul shatter.
— Cassandra Clare, Lady Midnight
One day, I learned that a single look can change everything. And since then I have seen it countless times. I have grappled to understand it and failed. For instance, all it took was a look from another man for my wife to fall out of love with me. It baffles me that a simple alignment of eyes can cause so much devastation.
— Ali Shaw, The Girl With Glass Feet
I have a big hole in my heart," I said. "But it'll close over."I don't want to sound all Dr. Phil," she said. "But don't let the scab seal the pain in, okay?"That's good advice," I said. "I hope I can manage it.
— Charlaine Harris, Definitely Dead
I can't leave you," he says hoarsely."I can't leave you either," I say, shaking my head. "I can't.""Then don't," he says, and grabs me behind the neck and kisses me again, and the world is tilting, and everything goes black.
— Cynthia Hand, Boundless
Just tell me you don't love me, and I'll let the matter drop.""What?""What I said. Just say, 'Rai, I don't love you and I never will'. It's that simple.""Raisa, this is getting us nowhere.""Say it!
— Cinda Williams Chima, The Exiled Queen
I'm just trying to outrun a broken heart, which is nothing to sneeze at, for a broken heart breaks a person.
— Sarah Hina, Plum Blossoms in Paris
Maybe we tried to leave as much memories of ourselves with each other because we knew one day we wouldn't be together any more.
— Makoto Shinkai, 5 Centimeters per Second
When he told me he no longer loved me, I fell to my knees.
— Sarah Hina, Plum Blossoms in Paris
There is one province in which, sooner or later, virtually everyone gets dealt a leading role--hero, heroine, or villain.... Unlike the slight implications of quotidian dilemmas that confront the average citizen in other areas of life ... the stakes in this realm could not be higher. For chances are that at some point along the line you will hold in your hands another person's heart. There is no greater responsibility on the planet. However you contend with this fragile organ, which pounds or seizes in accordance with your caprice, will take your full measure.
— Lionel Shriver, The Post-Birthday World
I would never normally approach a woman in this way, but I couldn't help but notice that you have the eyes of a lady I was once desperately in love with. ""What a shame to love only once," she said, showing her white teeth in a wicked smile. "I've heard some men can manage twice or even more."I ignored her gibe. "I am only a fool once. Never will I love again.
— Patrick Rothfuss
The cigarettes you light one after another won’t help you forget her.
— Frank Sinatra
Ah, if everyone was as sensitive as you! There's no girl who hasn't gone through that. And it's all so unimportant!
— Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
I am but a stranger ... as we all are. Lonely inside our separate skins, we cannot know each others pain and must bear our own in solitude. For my part, I have found that walking soothes it; and that, given luck, sometimes we find one to walk besides us ... at least for a little way.
— Alan Moore, DC Universe: The Stories of Alan Moore
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, If You Could See Me Now
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, City of Bones
Love hurts worse than getting slammed by a 250-pound linebacker.
— Miranda Kenneally, Catching Jordan
Somehow everything I own smells of you, and for the tiniest moment it's all not true
— Snow Patrol
So here’s my question: when you lose the most important person to you in the entire world, where is all the love – love you never even knew you were capable of – supposed to go?
— Ted Michael, Crash Test 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, The Wednesday Letters
He broke my heart, and now it's raining, just to rub it in...
— Alicia Keys
I never wanted but your heart--that gone, you have nothing more to give.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
Love does not traffic in a marketplace, nor use a huckster's scales. Its joy, like the joy of the intellect, is to feel itself alive. The aim of Love is to love: no more, and no less. You were my enemy: such an enemy as no man ever had. I had given you all my life, and to gratify the lowest and most contemptible of all human passions, hatred and vanity and greed, you had thrown it away. In less than three years you had entirely ruined me in every point of view. For my own sake there was nothing for me to do but to love you.
— Oscar Wilde, De Profundis
Faythe…?" The tremor in his voice broke my heart. Then understanding surfaced, and his tear-filled eyes searched mine desperately. "No. No," he whispered through clenched teeth. "This was not wrong. It’s the only thing I’ve done right in months. Don’t you dare regret this.
— Rachel Vincent, Prey
My heart is sair-I dare na tell,My heart is sair for Somebody.
— Robert Burns
Falling down ain't falling down,If you don't cry when you hit the floor,It's called the past cause I'm getting past,And I ain't nothing like I was before,You ought to see me now
— Alicia Keys
Don't do this to us." He warned, his voice hoarse with angry desperation as he realize he was losing her. "You're letting eleven years of mistrust color everything you've discovered I've done".
— Judith McNaught, Paradise
If you looked round the rooms, you wouldn't think there was anything missing. But it's like one of those Spot the difference cartoons in a puzzle book. The changes are so subtle, yet glaringly obvious once you've seen them. A photo missing here, a cup there. A heart a bit more broken than it was before.
— Liz Kessler, Read Me Like a Book
but i've slammed the door to my inner self; if he ever wants to force the lock again, he'll have to use a harder crowbar!
— Anne Frank
Jerks aren't heartbreakers there just fools with good taste.
— Sarah Enchanted
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, The Killer's Tears
To my surprise, Nick reached under his shirt and pulled out the half-heart pendant. With his gaze fixed on mine, he slid the chain over my head. “No one should have to go through life with only half a heart,” he whispered.
— Katherine Allred, The Sweet Gum Tree
So you're gone and i'm hauntedAnd i bet you are just fineDid i make it that easy to walkRight in and out of my life
— A Fine Frenzy
Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion.
— Javan
It's just a matter of willpower. The day you decide it's over, it's over. You never get over it.
— Junot Díaz, This Is How You Lose Her
My heart was a little bit broken, but I still had to go to school. I buttoned my dress shirt over it and my winter coat, too. I hoped it didn't show too much.
— Gabrielle Zevin, Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac
I'm tired of being your best friend. I'm tired of being second best. I won't settle for that anymore. It's all or nothing, Schuyler. You have to decide. Him or me.- Oliver Hazzard-Perry
— Melissa de la Cruz, Revelations
I love fictional characters...they can't break your heart.
— Julia Hall
When trees burn, they leave the smell of heartbreak in the air.
— Jodi Thomas, Welcome to Harmony
While I'm fine with you two dating and being happy, please try not to break his heart too much when the time comes.
— Richelle Mead, Spirit Bound
...though she had not had the strength to shake off the spell that bound her to him she had lost all spontaneity of feeling, and seemed to herself to be passively awaiting a fate she could not avert.
— Edith Wharton, Summer
I will not deny that my heart has long occupied itself with the most tender feelings for another. So strong were these impulses that I indulged myself by thinking that if I could not have him whom I admired whom I will admit it now when I would not before I loved then I would never want another. However those are sentiments best saved for one of Lily's romances. The heart is a far more practical thing and in its life is happily capable of more than a single attachment.
— Galen Beckett, The Magicians and Mrs. Quent
Each person's heart breaks in it's own way. Every cure will be different, but there are some things we all need. Before anything else, we need to feel safe.
— Erica Bauermeister, The School of Essential Ingredients
Kara do you love Brad?'All my heart.'Then how can you let him leave next year?'I guess love isn’t enough sometimes.
— Patrick Jones, Things Change
Some people don't care if they live or they die.Some people want to know what it feels like to fly.They gather their courage and they give it a tryAnd fall under the wheels of time going by.
— Patty Griffin
Yes I was burned but I called it a lesson learned. Mistake overturned so I call it a lesson learned. My soul has returned so I call it a lesson learned...another lesson learned
— Alicia Keys
Vlad's heart sank into his stomach, then squeezed its way down his leg and popped out of the hole in his shoe, where it struck the floor and broke.
— Heather Brewer, Eighth Grade Bites
And now, as I'm lying alone in my own bed, I keep thinking about writhing against him last night, naked and vulnerable. Even after we'd both risen and fallen, peaked and plummeted, even after Marcus was physically shrinking from inside me, I couldn't stop clutching, crying, trying. Trying to pull him deeper, deeper, deeper within.Trying to make him more a part of me than I am myself.
— Megan McCafferty, Charmed Thirds
He knew what it was like to love one who did not--or could not--love you back. But he'd had no choice. None of them did.
— Melissa de la Cruz, Revelations
And I'm ill with the thought of your kiss, coffee-laced intoxicating on her lips... shut it out, I've got no claim on you now, I'm not allowed to wear you freedom down
— A Fine Frenzy
If they ask you about me, tell them “She was the only girl who loved me with honesty, and I broke her.”.
— Shahrazad al-Khalij
And when I saw you kissing that girlMy heart, it shattered and my eyes, they wateredAnd when I tried to speak, I stuttered
— Kate Nash
Juliet shook her head. The thought of eating anything made her feel nauseous. "No thanks, I'm not hungry.""Oh yeah, the heartbreak diet," nodded Trudy sagely. "Been there, done that, bought the T-shirt.
— Alexandra Potter, Calling Romeo
My love is of a birth as rareAs 'tis, for object, strange and high;It was begotten by DespairUpon Impossibility.
— Andrew Marvell
With every strike of lightning Comes a memory that lasts Not a word is left unspoken As the thunder starts to crash Maybe I should give upStanding out in the rain Need to know if it's over Cause I would leave you alone I'm flooded with all this pain Knowing that I'll never hold her Like I did before the storm
— Jonas Brothers
If I were standing right beside her, I probably would have heard her heart breaking. It would have sounded like the cracking of a wooden bat connecting with a baseball. No, that was too clean of a break. It would have sounded like rain from a powerful thunderstorm pounding on a tin roof. Millions of drops relentlessly pounding away on the surface until it shattered into billions of tiny pieces. Pieces Emily couldn’t put back together by herself.
— Lindsay Paige, Sweetness
Campbell" Julia says "Don't do this to me""Do what?""Push me off the same cliff twice
— Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
If we must part forever,Give me but one kind word to think uponand please myself with, while my heart's breaking.
— Thomas Otway, The Orphan
Guys can smell desperation. It triggers an instinct in them to run far and fast so they aren't around when a woman starts peeling apart her heart. They know she'll ask for help in putting it back together the right way - intact and beating correctly - and they dread the thought of puzzling over layers that they can't understand, let alone rebuild. They'd rather just not get blood on their hands.But sharks are different. They smell the blood of desperation and circle in. They whisper into a girl's ear, "I'll make it better. I'll make you forget all about your pain."Sharks do this by eating your heart, but they never mention this beforehand. That is the thing about sharks.
— Janette Rallison, My Fair Godmother
If you'd only let me come by myself, none of this would have happened. Having you around makes everything worse.'She buried her head under her pillow. 'Stop it! you're so cold! You're heartless, you little robot!' The pillow muffled her words, but they still 
— Natalie Standiford, How to Say Goodbye in Robot
He looks like an angel, sings like an angel. He found my breaking heart and coaxed it into a new rhythm.
— Angela Morrison, Sing Me to Sleep
The fear is like metal on my tongue—I’ve known him but a fragment of time, and yet I’m certain if I accept his suit, it will destroy a part of me when he leaves.”Keir reached forward to tuck her hair behind her ear. “We’re all a little broken.” Quiet. Potent. “No one goes through life with a whole heart.
— Nalini Singh, Angels' Flight
Consider this a one-thousand horsepower divorce, sweetheart
— Daven Anderson, Vampire Syndrome
Hart caressed the letters of baby Graham’s name. “Mac likes to say, We’re Mackenzies. We break what we touch. But this little Mackenzie… he broke me.
— Jennifer Ashley, The Duke's Perfect Wife
Do not write. I am sad, and want my light put out.Summers in your absence are as dark as a room.I have closed my arms again. They must do without.To knock at my heart is like knocking at a tomb. Do not write!Do not write. Let us learn to die, as best we may.Did I love you? Ask God. Ask yourself. Do you know?To hear that you love me, when you are far away,Is like hearing from heaven and never to go. Do not write!Do not write. I fear you. I fear to remember,For memory holds the voice I have often heard.To the one who cannot drink, do not show water,The beloved one's picture in the handwritten word. Do not write!Do not write those gentle words that I dare not see,It seems that your voice is spreading them on my heart,Across your smile, on fire, they appear to me,It seems that a kiss is printing them on my heart. Do not write!
— Louis Simpson
6 months, 2 weeks, 4 days,and I still don’t know which month it was thenor what day it is now.Blurred out linesfrom hangovers to coffeeanother vagabond lost to love.
— Charlotte Eriksson
Heart stop aching, mind stop thinking.
— chime
I ache for you.
— Sade Andria Zabala, Coffee and Cigarettes
What they had wasn't ordinary, or subject to the ordinary rules of relationships and breakups. They belonged to each other totally, and always would, and that was that. But maybe everyone felt that way? Until the moment they realized they were just like everyone else, and everything they'd thought was real shattered apart.
— Cassandra Clare, City of Fallen Angels
...what argument is left with someone you love if she is willing to break your heart?
— Mark Helprin, Memoir from Antproof Case
I liked this girl in my sixth grade class. I dared her to kiss me -- but she didn't!
— Justin Bieber
News flash: The whole thing is a huge mess and a giant nightmare and it’s all about to explode in your face and you have no idea whatyou’ve gotten yourself into. Love is no game. People cut their ears off over this stuff. People jump off the Eiffel Tower and sell all theirpossessions and move to Alaska to live with the grizzly bears, and then they get eaten and nobody hears them when they scream for help.That’s right. Falling in love is pretty much the same thing as being eaten alive by a grizzly bear.Believe me, I should know.
— Jess Rothenberg, The Catastrophic History of You and Me
Don’t you ever let another put their hands on something that’s already yours, because you might end up breaking your own heart.
— Jonathan Anthony Burkett, Friends 2 Lovers: The Unthinkable
There were times when I would forget her, though they were rare, and it would be for a time as though she had never existed; and then some passing girl's inadvertent gesture, or an accidental profile, or a hat like hers, would restore her, and restore the suffering too, and I would long again, somehow, to encounter or to see her.
— Alfred Hayes, In Love
Good night.' Diana summoned all the dignity that she could manage in her bedraggled state and began to move back up the beach. Her dress was soaked and her stockings dotted with sand and her heart couldn't possibly withstand any more.
— Anna Godbersen, Envy
She inhabited a world from which I was excluded, and she had left me in an immense empty space.
— Alfred Hayes, In Love
Do you know what it's like to give your whole self to a person, and your whole heart to boot, until you've got nothing left to give- and then realize that it still isn't whay they need?
— Jodi Picoult, The Pact
I broke your heart.Now barefoot I treadon shards.
— Vera Pavlova
One thing, though," Qhuinn murmured."What?"The voice that came out his throat was unlike anything he'd ever heard from himself before. "If any guy breaks your heart or treats you like shit, I will bust him apart with my bare hands and leave his broken, bloody body for the sun."Blay's laughter rumbled around the tiled walls. "Of course you will--""I'm dead fucking serious."Blay's blue eyes shot over his shoulder."If there are any who dare to hurt you," Qhuinn growled in the Old Language, "I shall see them staked afore me and shall leave their bodies in ruin.
— J.R. Ward, Lover Enshrined
She loves. And she doesn't know how to pull it back when you have to, because sometimes you sure as feck have to. Got to grab it up with both hands and pull it back before somebody turns into knives and uses it to cut you to pieces.
— Karen Marie Moning, Iced
An ache filled my chest, so sharp that I gasped out loud. Was this what a broken heart felt like? Was it possible to die from the pain? I’d always thought the girls at school so dramatic; when they broke up with their boyfriends, they cried and carried on for weeks. I didn’t think they needed to throw such a fuss. But I’d never been in love before.
— Julie Kagawa, The Iron Daughter
It was like letting go and falling back into water and seeing yourself grinning up through the water, your face like a mask, and seeing the bubbles coming up as if you were trying to speak from under the water. And how do you know what it's like to try to speak from under water when you're drowned?
— Jean Rhys, Voyage in the Dark
My heart is beating like it's lonely, like there's nothing else inside of me.
— Junot Díaz, This Is How You Lose Her
Was I heartbroken or furious? I didn’t know. I did know: that’s it. Our relationship could not continue like this, out of balance, unequal.And as surely as I knew this, I knew something else: But of course it can. We can continue to live exactly as we do right now, in a heavy-lidded state of love and unspeakable compromise. Isn’t that what people do? Every day? Don’t they ache but rename it tired?It made me wonder: Was it even fair to expect the person you’re with to be just as happy as you? Furthermore, how could you ever even know for sure? You couldn’t, was the truth of it. You could not know this.
— Augusten Burroughs, Lust & Wonder
When he talked his eyes went away from mine and then he forced himself to look straight at me and he began to explain and I knew that he felt very strange with me and that he hated me, and it was funny sitting there and talking like that, knowing he hated me.
— Jean Rhys, Voyage in the Dark
The pain of one-sided love, of knowing that I had loved her more than she had loved me
— Sierra Simone, Priest
The hardest thing to do is watch the one you love, love someone else
— Poise
Dont worry" Emma said "There are worse things than having your heart broken.""Like What?" Zoe asked skeptically."Never having it broken. Never giving in to love
— Lisa Kleypas, Dream Lake
…Elinor was then at liberty to think and be wretched.
— Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
The whole thing was like a divorce. When we divided everything up, Courtney got my dignity, and I got the heartache.
— Alex Flinn
The end came as dusk fell on a gloomy winter day of cold rain.
— Soheir Khashoggi, Nadia's Song
Dancing with heartbreak is the strangest thing. It's like playing with fire
—  you know you'll get burnt but you are still captivated by the flickering flame and the magnetic heat.
Had she stabbed me with a knife, she could not have hurt me more.
— Alexandre Dumas fils, La Dame aux Camélias
Don't allow someone not worth it to have the power to occupy your thoughts. If they don't find you worth the effort or the time, why should you waste yours?
— Donna Lynn Hope
In some deep place in her heart, Caroline had kept alive the silly romantic notion that somehow David Henry had once known her as no one else ever could. But it was not true. He had never even glimpsed her.
— Kim Edwards, The Memory Keeper's Daughter
Jealousy always trumps schadenfreude! It’s a rule from the heartbreak version of ‘rock, paper, scissors.
— Julie Klausner, I Don't Care About Your Band: Lessons Learned from Indie Rockers, Trust Funders, Pornographers, Felons, Faux-Sensitive Hipsters, and Other Guys I've Dated
I learned that if you love a boy you are o longer free. The boy may become more important than your own self and if it is so, you will find trouble there. The first time you are hurt in your heart, you do not forget the lesson. It stays forever.
— Susan Minot, Thirty Girls
It's clear he still feels something, but what? Is the whole reason he made such a big deal about wanting to talk to me so he could have a chance to apologize? Well, I don't want his apology. You don't get to break someone's heart and think everything is fine just because you say sorry. That's just not fair.
— Carey Heywood, Him
How come they get to be gray-haired and still in love with each other, while Lilly tears out what's left of my heart and dumps it into her Jill-The-Ripper shredder?
— Daven Anderson, Vampire Syndrome
Don’t take away my dignity While patching up my broken dreams
— Holly Ducarte, Confetti Confessions: Thoughtful micro poetry on matters of the heart, life, and nature
I create my own heartbreaks!
— Shehrin Odri
3:29:50 pmwhat is it that you love about himis it the way he lets you downincapable of lifting you upis it the way your heart breakswhen he says somethingthat shatters your self-esteemis it the fact he never shows upwhen you need himtell me again what is there to loveabout a man who doesn't love you
— R.H. Sin, A Beautiful Composition of Broken
listen girl,’ Medea says, ‘you arenot the first person in the world tosuffer from a broken heart.but i will treat you like you are.listen girl. he is not calling out your name.your name to him is nothing.it might have been before.once, your name might have beenthe only word he knew when hewas blind sad or bursting with sun.those days are over.your name can only exist in your own mouth now.say it over and over. say it until it doesn’t soundlike a name, but just a sound. the promises he made you are just sounds now too. remember that.your hands are what will hold you together now.and you want to be mad? be mad.here is a plate. throw it through his window,listen to the crack. the shatter. laugh into the night.call yourself the sun. see, you will rise.and are you less of a woman for this? nowhat is woman?woman is this–enduring.listen girl, you will get over this– you will.but what fool said you had to do it silently?here is a tip – scream
— Salma Deera, Letters From Medea
You live to poison every beautiful flower that you come in contactwith- I pray for the next girlyou may or may notdestroy
— McKayla Debonis, Bones in the Garden
The return journey was nothing like the arrival. Bea couldn’t wait to get out of the car. She remembered feeling like this before, with Brandon, on several occasions. It was an excruciating need to escape the confinement of being in too close a proximity to passive-aggressive behaviour. She hated conflict, after a row, it would take her hours, perhaps days to become fully relaxed and herself again. She became anxious, not entirely brought on by his coldness, but by old memories, and the way her body would instinctively react to them. It wasn’t a feeling that she wanted to experience with someone new, of whom she’d told his sister only a short time ago that she was falling in love with.
— Tracey-anne McCartney, A Carpet of Purple Flowers
(...) like he left a piece of himself with youand you are terrifiedhe is coming back for it.Or he left a piece of himself with you and you are terrified he is not coming back for it.
— Brenna Twohy, Forgive Me My Salt
God's breath is like a fresh wind that renews us. Frail and weak as we are,we have hope. We find healing.
— Jocelyn Soriano, Mend My Broken Heart
I realized that that was how heartbreak occurred. Your heart wants something, but reality resists it. Death is inert and heavy, and it has no relation to your heart's desires.
— Zinzi Clemmons, What We Lose
To love is to risk, and to risk is to lose sometimes, to get hurt. But let it not deter you from loving again, from being happy.
— Jocelyn Soriano, Mend My Broken Heart
I'm sorry that when you say 'love', I always hear'heartbreak'.
— Darshana Suresh, Howling at the Moon
I wonder what you want from meServed you my heart on a silver platterAnd I watched you devour itEating daintily with your forks and your knivesWatched you stab me downWatched you cut me offAnd during every single second of itI gazed at you with lovedAs you ate your fill of meAnd tossed the rest in the trash
— Pyrokardia, A Beautiful Mess
I think it’s pretty common to hold onto people, to bribe them with things, say, a body, in the hopes of keeping them from leaving you. I don’t think it’s uncommon to invert such behaviors, to become something unlovable, in an effort to speed up the process of the inevitable. Fighting is an instinct. So is running. Everybody knows how to destroy a good thing. It’s easy.
— Kris Kidd, Return to Sender
What if I were to tell you the game’s been rigged, that I was destined to win from the very beginning? To be clear: Winning is subjective. For the record: I win by losing, by avoiding the confusion of possibility, the sheer terror of potential. To make a long story short: I win when I lose and I lose by running, by pushing you away.
— Kris Kidd, Return to Sender
Perhaps the year and a half spenttrying to make sense of all this has finally drained meMaybe, just maybe, I always know I deserved better, but was too afraid to accept it
— Samantha King
I’ll be too drunk to fight when you ask why I prefer to hurt, so I’ll start hurling stupid phrases like I love you at your naked chest, but no matter what I try, they’ll all sound like cheap threats.
— Kris Kidd, Return to Sender
I think sometimes we gravitate toward broken people, not ’cause we want to fix them, but ’cause we want to fix ourselves. The line between selflessness and selfishness is thin and intangible. It’s imaginary. We can’t see it. People project their problems onto other people’s problems. It happens all the time. We see ourselves in each other. We can’t help it. It’s human nature.
— Kris Kidd, Return to Sender
The dogs left with us and we walked. I sobbed the whole way home, still heartbroken. My mom had no time for my whining.“Why are you crying?!”“Because Fufi loves another boy.”“So? Why would that hurt you? It didn’t cost you anything. Fufi’s here. She still loves you. She’s still your dog. So get over it.”Fufi was my first heartbreak. No one has ever betrayed me more than Fufi. It was a valuable lesson to me. The hard thing was understanding that Fufi wasn’t cheating on me with another boy. She was merely living her life to the fullest. Until I knew that she was going out on her own during the day, her other relationship hadn’t affected me at all. Fufi had no malicious intent.I believed that Fufi was my dog, but of course that wasn’t true. Fufi was a dog. I was a boy. We got along well. She happened to live in my house. That experience shaped what I’ve felt about relationships for the rest of my life: You do not own the thing that you love. I was lucky to learn that lesson at such a young age. I have so many friends who still, as adults, wrestle with feelings of betrayal. They’ll come to me angry and crying and talking about how they’ve been cheated on and lied to, and I feel for them. I understand what they’re going through. I sit with them and buy them a drink and I say, “Friend, let me tell you the story of Fufi.
— Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
Do you think dogs enjoy fucking? Or is it something so primal, so intrinsically necessary that it just happens, just occurs? Do you think animals can fall in love? I let you fuck me from behind almost every single night, always wanting to be kissed, but still, I refuse to roll over.
— Kris Kidd, Return to Sender
I love you. Let's get this over with.
— Kris Kidd, Return to Sender
When we feel the clown, when we have been played, if we have lived by heart, acted out of compassion, we are the substance of the play,rather than merely being played.
— Tom Althouse, The Frowny Face Cow
Dear . . .You’re the poem I couldn’t finish The journey I should have never started I saw tragedy in our ending My pen bled its heart out trying to change it But you were the fight I didn’t want to lose The addiction I didn’t want to quitYet there was only one of us holding on I wasn’t attached to the man you areBut the one you could be I tried to build where there was no foundationCreate a fairy tale on blank pages But some stories need not be told, let alone written You’ll read my words and won’t be moved Your arrogance will not soften You won’t be changed Your heart, if you should have one, will not bend or break The worst part of it all Is this poem is about you and you’ll never even know it
— Samantha King
I carried around five tons of pain where she used to be.
— C.D. Reiss, Marriage Games
Even at the Gallagher Academy, they don't teach you to break somebody's heart.
— Ally Carter, I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You
But even the Gallagher Academy hadn't figured out a way to help us protect our hearts.
— Ally Carter, Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy
People say what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. They say that when you been through something terrible ... But it doesn't. It breaks your bones, leaving everything splintered and held together with grubby bandages and yellowing sticky tape. Creaking along the fault lines, Fragile and exhausting to hold together. Sometimes you wish it had killed you.
— Fiona Barton, The Child
I felt it. I heard the snap of my heart tearing in half. It wasn’t a messy, dirty rip like I’d expected, but a smooth, clean line that knew just where to break to hurt me the most.
— T.L. Martin, Touched by Death
Love doesn't leave you. Not all at once. It creeps back in, making you think it can be another way, that it can still be another way, and you have to remind yourself of the reasons that it probably won't be.
— Laura Dave, The Divorce Party
Flora hadn't signed my yearbook. When I got it back from the cheerleaders, I skimmed over the last few pages and saw that every one of them signed except for her. I was disappointed but I wasn't surprised.We were too much of everything to be summed up in a few sentences. -Sean Foster
— rainbowbrook, Kissing Is the Easy Part
But I’m not wearing the appropriate clothes for the occasion. “You’re always more than appropriate.
— Emiliano Campuzano, Cielo Por Tu Luz
You make every case for marriage but love.
— Rachel Hauck, The Writing Desk
Why must duty require me to break my own heart?
— Rachel Hauck, The Writing Desk
He was the kind of boy to crush your heart into dust then snort it off the table in front of you.
— P.A. Bitez
I knew I couldn’t let her go, not again, especially then that I knew she would not ever come back if she did.
— Emiliano Campuzano, Cielo Por Tu Luz
You can't protect him from being hurt, babe, no mattter what you do. Being vulnerable, letting people in, getting hurt...it's all a part of being in love.
— Jenny Han, Always and Forever, Lara Jean
Supplication comes from a place of intrinsic desperation resulting from a broken and contrite heart.
— Robin Bertram, No Regrets: How Loving Deeply and Living Passionately Can Impact Your Legacy Forever
Hearts don’t break.It’s just another thing the poets say.Hearts are not madeOf glassOr boneOr any material that couldSplinterOr FragmentOr Shatter.They don’tCrack Into Pieces.They don’tFall Apart.Hearts don’t break.They just stop working.An old watch from another time and no parts to fix it.
— Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star
I feel almost, then, that I can hear within me the sound of my own heart breaking, the way you could hear outside in the open air-when the conditions were exactly right-the corn growing in the fields of my youth...You cannot hear my heart breaking, and I know that part is true, but to me, they are inseparable, the sound of growing corn and the sound of my heart breaking.
— Elizabeth Strout, My Name Is Lucy Barton
Just remember, though you may have an ample set of well-wishers who would pray for you, there would always be an extra set of prayer called out for you in some part of the world.
— Sapan Saxena, Unns-The Captivation
...I experienced a sudden ache -- part desolation, part panic -- to observe the speed with which this mate, this familiar, was transforming herself into a separate person.
— Ian McEwan, Enduring Love
I feel as though the end is never worth the pain of fearingYou listen to the words I say without ever truly hearingI've noticed you are simply just another human beingYou look into my eyes and smile without ever truly seeingI no longer see the point in trying to be overbearingBecause you told me that you loved me without ever truly caring
— Anissa Sorenson
Love had failed. Love was an emotion through which you occasionally enjoyed yourself. it could not do things.
— E.M. Forster, Maurice
Kiss me back into place and remind me why we can't be together.
— A.Mostafa
You can't be the cause and the cure, mon amour.
— Ahmed Mostafa
She still loves him. This is the fact she wakes up to each morning. She checks it, sometimes, a tongue probing an aching tooth, making sure it still hurts.
— Hala Alyan, Salt Houses
Then you'd sob and sob and sob so hard you couldn't stand up until finally you'd go quiet and your head would weigh seven hundred pounds and you'd lift it from your hands and rise to walk into the bathroom to look at yourself solemnly in the mirror and you'd know for sure that you were dead. Living but dead. And all because this person didn't love you anymore, or even if he/she loved you he/she didn't want you and what kind of life was that? it was no life. There would be no life anymore. There would be only one unbearable minute after another and during each of those minutes this person you wanted would not want you and so you would begin to cry again and you'd watch yourself cry pathetically in the mirror until you couldn't cry anymore, so you'd stop.
— Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
I've got such an envious heart;It sloshes and acheswhen you touch her face,and I don't know what to do with it,other than to justlet it break.
— Hayley Stumbo, One Hundred Breaths Later
I know she's just trying to protect me, just as I was to protect myself a few short weeks ago, but her words make me aware that the heart in my chest is a muscles like any other. It can hurt.
— Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything
It will hurt and when it does, it will hurt so bad.
— Joselle Anne Gayanes
No, Ashok. Love is not a tap. It flows and flows like blood from a wound, and you can die of it.
— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Sister of My Heart
One truth that has helped me accept some of the most difficult moments and heartbreaking decisions in my life is that I already have all for which I ask. I am blessed! I am delivered from my worries!
— Carlos Wallace, The Other 99 T.Y.M.E.S: Train Your Mind to Enjoy Serenity
No hard feelings, lover. You can't break my heart. It stopped beating a long time ago.
— Dez Schwartz, Roam