What happens when someone breaks your heart? When someone breaks your heart, first you are shocked. Someone will say you are heartbroken and you examine the words break and heart and heartbroken and you immediately...

I forced myself out of a love that I knew would only end fatally.I forced myself into the dark, until I could no longer remember how to feel with my eyes. I forced my mind...

Girls spilled drinks down their dresses and flicked their hair. Wishing anyone, maybe even you, would notice them… You were someone to me.

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

To make real friends you have to put yourself out there. Sometimes people will let you down, but you can’t let that stop you. If you get hurt, you just pick yourself up, dust off...

Love hurts worse than getting slammed by a 250-pound linebacker.

Love doesn’t go away just because you realize you can’t be with someone

In my experience, there never seems to be a man or woman who will walk in and literally sweep you off your feet, or away, when you’re in the biggest distaster of your life. If...

There are still Ava Maddoxes to find and sets to create and girls to kiss and colleges to attend. It’s possible that someday I will hear a patsy Cline song and the heartbreak will barely...

It is always painful to part from people whom one has known for a brief space of time. The absence of old friends one can endure with equanimity, But even a momentary separation from anyone...

My heart’s cracking apart all over again because of the way I’ve missed him.

Ari looks fiercely resolute. It’s the same look she has on her face at the start of every race: Dogged determination. My heart and head enter into full-on combat mode.

I was in love when I felt your soul speaks in my Body

She could have risen from the ashes. Instead, she smoldered in the embers.

I don’t want to know that you don’t want me. I don’t want to know what you do without me. I don’t want to know what I’ll be without you. I dont wanna know. I...

If love were human I would’ve set them on fire by now — a screaming blaze of smoke and flesh. I’d breathe in the blackness once more just to feel love’s destruction, its mortality filling...

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...

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

I wished my heart would break and get it over with.

She was telling me that I had a life of disappointment before me if I continued to love him as I did. A love that is too strong can turn poisonous and bring great unhappiness....

How many losses does it take to stop a heart,to lay waste to the vocabularies of desire?

Because pieces of your heart clearly weigh more when they’re sitting shattered at the bottom of your stomach.

How accommodating love is; it forgives everything.

I called his broken promise heartbreaking, and he called it growing up. Oh, that’s mature—blame it on maturity.

Heart stop aching, mind stop thinking.

Because I know if I sit down and start to write out how it feels…. it all becomes too real… the pain becomes too much. But that’s the weird part because I feel so empty,...

Sometimes you break your heart in the right way, if you know what I mean.

Why did I always end up loving the person who hurt me the most? Why was love so cruel?

I was a fool. I should have grabbed him when I could have had him all to myself, snatched him up like a ripe mango at the market. But how was I to know that...

Hey, it’s Col. I’m standing in a soybean field outside of Gutshot, Tennessee, which is a long story, and it’s hot. K. I’m standing here sweating like I had hyperhidrosis, that disease where you sweat...

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...

When the heartIs cut or cracked or brokenDo not clutch itLet the wound lie openLet the windFrom the good old sea blow inTo bathe the wound with saltAnd let it sting.Let a stray dog lick...

The nostalgia of a moment’s love can be an illusionary precipice from which we fall from truth; in heartbreak, what we escape to in the past is what tortures us in the present.

Seeing his face after months was as immediate as a pointed gun.

George stared at the dove. What would she say if she could speak to him? What would she wish for, for her father? For she, too, had been harmed by a man who had meant...

I am falling in love with falling out of love

Kat stood immobile and watched with pain, a kiss of passion, a kiss of desire; a kiss that could never be hers.

It’s not the loving that hurts this girl; it’s the understanding of it for what it is, that it will never be returned in the same way, that threatens to destroy her. But to unload...

Understanding did not provide solace or make the pain go away; in many ways, understanding was just more salt in the emotional wound. Ignorance allowed one to fight back with unfettered cruelty. Understanding inspired empathy,...

You said she has no travel records leaving Italy?””Yes sir.””So there is a great possibility that she is still here in Italy, isn’t?””Yes sir.””What is ‘true love’ in Italian?”Secretary Wood showed surprise in his boss’...

there is no action kind enough to express heartbreak. I am left shut, the quietest of blossoms.

Come up into the hills, O my young love. Return! O lost, and by the wind grieved, ghost, come back again, as first I knew you in the timeless valley, where we shall feel ourselves...

Love is when Looking at a glance at youI found laughter in my eyes, Thoughts turns into jewels Where luster of your aura dwells

There are times when a boy breaks your heart and you quietly cry in your mother’s arms wishing you hadn’t met him. Then there are times when a boy breaks your heart and you sob...

I ache for you.

In your experiment on life and love, I was the price you paid…and the one whom you hurt…I was your lab rat and you injected me with rejection o see how you’d fair, but the...

I lost myself in the burden of trying to be your savior.

Everyone who loves risks losing their heart every minute of every day.

There pass the careless peopleThat call their souls their own:Here by the road I loiter,How idle and alone.Ah, past the plunge of plummet,In seas I cannot sound,My heart and soul and senses,World without end, are...

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...