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...

You are the sun before risethe sun before setthe moon before lightthe sea before shoreflower before floresome before thingYou are everything

Strange, how we often hate the ones who save us and love the ones that are like poison.

And when I saw you kissing that girlMy heart, it shattered and my eyes, they wateredAnd when I tried to speak, I stuttered

Do me the kindness of at least scraping me from the bottom of your shoes.

Campbell” Julia says “Don’t do this to me””Do what?””Push me off the same cliff twice

I didn’t bring you here because I was drunk, T. Yes, I was a bit out of it, but I was mostly intoxicated by the sight of you. No alcohol could do to me what...

…we named her Dorothy Ann. Dolly, for short. I kissed her warily, fearful of the pain of loving her, love her, though love her I did; fearful lest she hurt me by dying.

our hearts break, and take us out of relationships that are too painful for us

We are all Romeos looking for our Juliet, but never finding her.

The things that are priceless to my heart carry no currency where we are going.

i promise you that i won’t promise you anymore.,,,

Your heart is like your brain. It has to be protected.

We’re staying together,” he promised. “You’re not getting away from me. Never again.

the saddest thing is to bea minute to someone,when you’ve made them your eternity.

Better this way, what remained of his battered sensibilities told him. He was no good for her, anyway. She didn’t understand him. She didn’t understand that he was cursed. And, selfish as he was, he’d...

That I’ve horrified many flight attendants across the globe with my oft-thought morbid ritual of listening to Tuesday’s Gone as we fly through the sky is not my concern. My declaration evident, my truth now...

I love being alone when I Know Somebody make you smile.

Hearts are breakable,” Isabelle said. “And I think even when you heal, you’re never what you were before”.

You have found love in your heart – and out of small changes come great things.

Wasting time over wasted time is just more wasted time…

She wore his flowerIn her hairScent of amberSweetened the airHer dress was whiteHer feet bareHe found heavenWaiting thereShe is aliveIn his painful sigh…

It’s hard to close the door on optimistic expectations when you love someone.

We recognize that you’ve used substances to try to regain your lost balance, to try to feel the way you did before the need arose to use addictive drugs or alcohol. We know that you...

Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.Eagerly I wished the morrow; — vainly I had sought to borrow From my books...

We thought we had time. I waved but couldn’t answer, because I was finally letting myself grin as wide as I’d wanted all afternoon, all evening, every sec of every minute with you, Ed. Shit,...

Being a blesséd writer is a cursed attribute, when you wish to no longer be encompassed by someone and yet you are surrounded by loose leaf papers filled with the sound of his voice.

Someday you’re gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You’ll see that you were in mourning and your heart was broken, but your life was changing…

If you’re always looking back at what you’ve lost, you’ll never discover the treasure that lies just up ahead.

Consider this a one-thousand horsepower divorce, sweetheart

It’s quite commonplace for a young man to fall in love and equally commonplace for him to be rejected, but come what may, I’ll always be fond of you.

What good is a song that doesn’t break your heart?

Ah, if everyone was as sensitive as you! There’s no girl who hasn’t gone through that. And it’s all so unimportant!

It’s like she has her heart in her hand and it’s broken. She’s holding it out and showing me all the little pieces. Or maybe it’s my heart.

It is the heart that has been pierced that feels the most.

The word bollocks seems strong, punk rock, and imposing, but in reality, bollocks is always too tame to make much of an impact.

I bruise easily and sometimes I can’t stop bleeding.

It wasn’t the “I love you” she heard that made her let him go. It was the “Come with me” that she didn’t.

There will be times when it seems that it would be best to just call him and see how he’s doing. Don’t deceive yourself, you don’t care about how he’s doing, you’re just craving him,...

They had lied, those who had extolled the virtues of love—its pleasures, its sublimity—those who had told her that it was beautiful and worthwhile.There was nothing beautiful about it.It was awful.

Who do those boys think they are, treating us as if we are their property, taking away our innocence?

I kiss her for way too long at the door, and not for the first time, I wish that I could stay with her, to help chase those dark clouds away.

I’d breathe for her. I’d see for her, hear for her, and feel for her. I’d even die for her. Thousands of times. If I could see her smile at me one more time, it...

Eventually, I’ll grow sick and perish. Die on the floor, a young girl—who even when in the presence of company, still feels the loneliness that looms over her heart.

You wanted to see the world. And yet, all I want is to see you.

The closer he was the less confident I was.

Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together.

A broken heart is something even I can’t protect you from. I’ve been alone for so long, and believe me, all that does is provide a false sense of security. Being alone doesn’t erase the...

My heart is too thoroughly dried to be broken in a hurry, and I mean to live as long as I can.

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...