"Don't settle for a relationship that won't let you be yourself."
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"The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned."
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"Sometimes I’m terrified of my heart; of its constant hunger for whatever it is it wants. The way it stops and starts."
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"To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal. You see, I could conceive death, but I could not conceive betrayal."
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"Hearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they did, but we don't."
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"Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies."
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"A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. But to live with a soul mate forever? Nah. Too painful. Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then leave."
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"Sadness flies away on the wings of time."
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"Betrayal is the only truth that sticks."
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"It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace."
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"Once, when I was young and true. Someone left me sad - Broke my brittle heart in two; And that is very bad. Love is for unlucky folk, Love is but a curse. Once there was a heart I broke; And that, I think, is worse."
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"One is easily fooled by that which one loves."
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"Anxiety, heartbreak, and tenderness mark the in-between state. It's the kind of place we usually want to avoid. The challenge is to stay in the middle rather than buy into struggle and complaint. The challenge is to let it soften us rather than make us more rigid and afraid."
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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 see that you were in mourning and your heart was broken, but your life was changing."
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"Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned."
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"What right have I to grieve, who have not ceased to wonder?"
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"Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love."
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"I have not broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine."
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"Every happiness is the child of a separation it did not think it could survive."
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"We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love."
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