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I was even a little glad that if it wasn’t going to be me she wanted, it was going to be someone who...

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You really want to know what else it was my mom said about you?" he asked.She shook her head.He didn...

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But maybe you never really had someone, she thought now. Maybe, no matter how much you loved them, t...

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Hearts are breakable," Isabelle said. "And I think even when you heal, you're never what you were be...

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What they had wasn't ordinary, or subject to the ordinary rules of relationships and breakups. They ...

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Cassandra ClareCity of Fallen Angels

I think,” Jace said, “that you don’t want to tell your secrets, so you decided to break up with Alec...

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But I have made a study of Shadowhunters now, over the past century, and let me tell you that we are...

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She had loved him for such a long time, she thought. How was it that she did now know him at all?

Could you really love two different people at once? Could you split your heart in half?

He can touch your soul. And there is a difference between having your heart break and having your so...

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we know God is dead, they’ toldus, but listening to you I wasn’ sure. maybeit was the upper case. yo...

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It is because I think so much of warm and sensitive hearts, that I would spare them from being wound...

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Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think w...

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No reflection was to be allowed now, not one glance was to be cast back; not even one forward. Not o...

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You are going, Jane?""I am going, sir.""You are leaving me?""Yes.""You will not come? You will not b...

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Gentle reader, may you never feel what I then felt! May your eyes never shed such stormy, scalding, ...

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Even if times are tough and you're enduring a terrible heartache, it's important to focus your anger...

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Chelsea HandlerMy Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands

Alcohol ruined me financially and morally, broke my heart and the hearts of too many others. Even th...

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Craig FergusonAmerican on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot

You know I want to be a directos, but you could never truly see the movies in my head and that, Ed, ...

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I'd ruin any day, all my days, for those long nights with you. And I did. But that right there was w...

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I'm nothing, not a single thing. The only particle I had, the only tiny thing raising me up, is that...

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I'm writing it in a letter, the whole truth of why it happened. And the truth is that I goddamn love...

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I'm a lunatic wandering around for scraps, I'm like every single miserable moron I've scorned, and p...

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There were a million things, everything, I didn't know. I was stupid, the official descriptive phras...

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I'm dumping the whole box back into your life Ed, every item of you and me. I'm dumping this box on ...

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We thought we had time. I waved but couldn't answer, because I was finally letting myself grin as wi...

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Here we are at the bottom, almost empty. It's like confetti, these dried remnants you find in the st...

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You winked, took the change. I should have seen it, Ed, as a sign that you were unreliable. Instead,...

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I gasped and pointed the way. I gave you an adventure, Ed, right in front of you but you never saw i...

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Although he never speaks of how or what or why, I know that his childhood was difficult, that his pa...

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

Frantic and serene, vigilant and calm, wrung-out and fortified, explosive and sedate—love commands a...

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Diane AckermanA Natural History of Love

Trouble is a part of life and if you don't share it you don't give the person who loves you enough...

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Well, girls always love assholes,” said Platt, not bothering to dispute this. “Haven't you noticed?”...

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Lips that taste of tears they say are the best for kissing.

A Very Short Song Once, when I was young and true, Someone left me sad- Broke my brittle heart in tw...

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Dorothy ParkerThe Complete Poems of Dorothy Parker

This level reach of blue is not my sea; Here are sweet waters, pretty in the sun,Whose quiet ripples...

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Dorothy ParkerThe Portable Dorothy Parker

There's always a moment when you start to fall out of love, whether it's with a person or an idea or...

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I was yours once till death if you cared to keep me, but I'm someone else's now--I can't hang about ...

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Love had failed. Love was an emotion through which you occasionally enjoyed yourself. it could not d...

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Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe, and forget this lost Lenore!

Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December And each separate dying ember wrought its gho...

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...though she had not had the strength to shake off the spell that bound her to him she had lost all...

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Someday you're gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You'll ...

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Deep grief sometimes is almost like a specific location, a coordinate on a map of time. When you are...

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My heart was broken so badly last time that it still hurts. Isn't that crazy? To still have a broken...

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We must all get our hearts broken sometimes. This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we...

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I have sadness in me. I have anger in me. I have heartbreak in me.

You teach me now how cruel you've been - cruel and false. Why did you despise me? Why did you betray...

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Come in! come in !’ he sobbed.‘Cathy, do come. Oh do -once more! Oh! my heart’s darling! hear me thi...

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If I can stop one heart from breaking,I shall not live in vain;If I can ease one life the aching,Or ...

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Heart, we will forget him!You and I, to-night!You may forget the warmth he gave,I will forget the li...

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Emily DickinsonThe Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

I have forgot much, Cynara! gone with the wind,Flung roses, roses riotously with the throng,Dancing,...

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Ernest DowsonThe Poems and Prose of Ernest Dowson

We are all broken, that's how the light gets in.

My heart's broken,' he thought. 'If I feel this way my heart must be broken.

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Ernest HemingwayThe Complete Short Stories

Love was the greatest thing, wasn't it? Love was what we had that no one else had or could ever have...

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Ernest HemingwayTo Have and Have Not

This is all. It's been very rare to have known you, very strange and wonderful. But this wouldn't do...

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The cigarettes you light one after another won’t help you forget her.

It is not a lack of love but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

If something is to stay in the memory it must be burned in: only that which never ceases hurting sta...

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Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.

Perhaps this is what the stories meant when they called somebody heartsick. Your heart and your stom...

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The act was an exorcism of relief for Florentino Ariza, for when he put the violin back into its cas...

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It is just that I don’t know how I could live without the hope of her. It would be like learning to ...

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And after that, you don't feel the same toward the other person any longer.

Once she had loved Prince Joffrey with all her heart, and admired and trusted her his mother, the qu...

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A great battle is a terrible thing," the old knight said, "but in the midst of blood and carnage, th...

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Love is a great poet its resources are inexhaustible but if the end it has in view is not obtained...

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I can never think of you as a friend. You can do without a friend.

But vilifying those we love always detaches us from them a little. We should not touch our idols: th...

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Happiness is the china shop love is the bull.

Never had she danced so beautifully; the sharp knives cut her feet, but she did not feel it, for the...

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Soon after the completion of his college course, his whole nature was kindled into one intense and p...

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now I'm told that this is life, that pain is just a simple comprimise so we can get what we want out...

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Vlad's heart sank into his stomach, then squeezed its way down his leg and popped out of the hole in...

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

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Is the whole world doomed to emotional trauma?

Some of us think holding on makes us strong but sometimes it is letting go.

...I experienced a sudden ache -- part desolation, part panic -- to observe the speed with which thi...

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Parade my trouble in front of you guys? Make you realize that my heart is broken . . . that as long ...

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That the world I was in could be soft, lovely, and nourishing was more than I could bear, and so I s...

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I looked at Lucas with the pang that a parent feels when he knows his child will be hurt and that it...

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But I will not repine. It cannot last long. He will be forgot, and we shall all be as we were before...

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Every line, every word was -- in the hackneyed metaphor which their dear writer, were she here, woul...

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Eleanor went to her room "where she was free to think and be wretched.

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Jane AustenSense and Sensibility

What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering. For weeks, Marian...

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…Elinor was then at liberty to think and be wretched.

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Jane AustenSense and Sensibility

She felt the loss of Willoughby's character yet more heavily than she had felt the loss of his heart...

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In that house, you will find my heart. You must break in, Henri, and get it back for me.'Was she mad...

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Well in case you failed to notice,In case you failed to see,This is my heart bleeding before you,Thi...

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Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the...

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This was something she would keep hidden within herself, maybe in place of the knot of pain and ange...

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To find out a heart she'd believed irrevocably broken had somewhere along the way been fixed.

Campbell" Julia says "Don't do this to me""Do what?""Push me off the same cliff twice

He's an egotistical dickhead who's going to chew you up and spit you out; and you have a really awfu...

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Do you know what it's like to give your whole self to a person, and your whole heart to boot, until ...

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Love built on beauty soon as beauty dies.

The feeling of loving her and being loved by her welled up in him, and he could taste the adrenaline...

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John Green (author)An Abundance of Katherines

Hey, it’s Col. I’m standing in a soybean field outside of Gutshot, Tennessee, which is a long story,...

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The end occurred mostly in her whispers and his silence - because he couldn't whisper and they didn'...

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