#heartbreak

He broke my heart, and now it's raining, just to rub it in... ↗

— Alicia Keys

#lessonlearned #love #love

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

#heartbreak #love #life

It hurts to love. It's like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#love #love-hurts #love

Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met -- or never parted -- we had ne'er been broken-hearted ↗

— Robert Burns

#love #love

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

#love #love

He looks like an angel, sings like an angel. He found my breaking heart and coaxed it into a new rhythm. ↗

— Angela Morrison

#heartbreak #love #rhythm #love

Because before the time when you're heartbroken, you get to be in love, and that's worth it. ↗

— Leila Sales

#heartbreak #love #love

But maybe you never really had someone, she thought now. Maybe, no matter how much you loved them, they could slip through your fingers like water, and there was nothing you could do about it. She understood why people talked about hearts "breaking"; she felt as if hers were made of cracked glass, and the shards were like tiny knives inside her chest when she breathed. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#fragile-love #glass #heartbreak #knives #love

I'll tell you something, Harpy," he said, his voice almost a whisper now. "It never even occurred to me that we wouldn't make it. And it never occurred to you that we would. You were just waiting for us to go down in flames. I thought we could get through anything. ↗

— Kristan Higgins

#divorce #heartbreak #love #romance #sad

I love being reminded that existence itself is all about the tangling of souls. ↗

— Carolyn Mackler

#intense #love #love