“Tell me that you refuse to allow me to be so stupid. Tell me that you will not tolerate this relationship being over just when it was on the verge of really taking off.”
Heartbroken feeling
Heartbroken Quotes — page 25 of 27
“His version of 'real' love isn't sufficient for me, I don't think anyone should settle for so little. It wasn't love - not in the true sense. On my part, it was neediness, insecurity, dependence, habit - desperate to feel loved by a man who was often ambivalent towards me.”
“how can he love me then not? He went,he ran. And I cannot bring him back. Yet I left the door metaphorically wide open, hoping he'd come back and bang on it proclaiming, "I want to be here with you. Always." Soon I'm going to have to shutit. For my safety and my sanity. Let go. I don't want to. Won't letting go be just that - letting go? Giving up? Admitting failure? Admitting that it is really, truly over?”
“I told you that I love you, I was only telling a lie. I'll be long gone come the crack of dawn and I believe the word is goodbye.”
“You can't be angry with me, because I am a hundred times more severely punished than you, if only by the fact that I shall never see you again.”
“Ah, Father! That’s words and only words! Forgive! If he’d not been run over, he’d have come home today drunk and his only shirt dirty and in rags and he’d have fallen asleep like a log, and I should have been sousing and rinsing till daybreak, washing his rags and the children’s and then drying them by the window and as soon as it was daylight I should have been darning them. What’s the use of talking forgiveness! I have forgiven as it is!”
“Thus with my lips have I denounced you, while my heart, bleeding within me, called you tender names.”
“The fonder you are of your ideals, the greater your heartbreaks.”
“Open your heart to a baseball team and you're liable to get it broken.”
“Do you know what happened the last time I loved someone?” Growled against my skin with such tempered violence that my shiver turned into a shudder. I nodded. “No you don’t.” Another lethal growl. “You only know how she died. Let me tell you how she lived— in fear. My actions horrified her, as they horrify you. My enemies exploited her, as they exploit you, so it was more than an advancing army that made her throw herself from our roof. It was me.”
“Love is a terrible weakness. It gives your enemies a perfect target, clouds your judgement, makes you reckless... and that's on a good day.”
“Love, like alcoholism, comes to a point of no return.”
“I don't believe in this fairy tale of staying together for ever. Ten years with somebody is enough. In ten years, you can give a lot of love.”
“The worst thing in the world when you feel broken is to have somebody coming at you with open-faced love.”
“The cheating was sweet, but my heart is beat. Don't tear it apart, please by-pass this heart.”
“You can't go through life without your heart being bruised or broken. Otherwise, you're not truly, fully, a person.”
“You loved me as hard as you knew how. I'd give anything to go back and love you better.”
“And even though he felt pitiful and ridiculous, he didn't want it to end, because he knew the absence of her would hurt more than any breakup ever could.”
“Sorry," I said to the Duke. "Eh, it's not your fault. It's Carla's fault. You were turning the wheel. Carla just wasn't listening. I knew I shouldn't have loved her. She's like all the others, Tobin; as soon as I confess my love, she abandons me." I laughed. "I never abandoned you," I said patting on her back. "Yeah, well, (a.) I never confessed my love to you, and (b.) I'm not even female to you.”
“So I let her go, too. And I'm sorry.”