“I know I hurt you then But that was way back when.”
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Heartbroken Quotes — page 26 of 27
“Betrayal is the deepest wound. Betrayal is what remains of love, when love has gone.”
“Not only did I avoid speaking of Salinger; I resisted thinking about him. I did not reread his letters to me. The experience had been too painful.”
“I realized that the one person who could break my heart is the only one who should have it.”
“More than anything, I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someone who might have loved you back but can't due to deadness, and then I leaned forward, my forehead against the back of Takumi's headrest, and I cried, whimpering, and I didn't even feel sadness so much as pain.”
“I love you' really is the gateway drug of breaking up.”
“It was not enough to be the last guy she kissed. I wanted to be the last one she loved. And I knew I wasn’t. I knew it, and I hated her for it. I hated her for not caring about me. I hated her for leaving that night, and I hated myself , too, not only because I let her go but because if I had been enough for her, she wouldn’t have even wanted to leave. She would have just lain with me and talked and cried, and I would have listened and kissed at her tears as they pooled in her eyes.”
“But what if music is what escapes when a heart breaks?”
“God's got a lot of explaining to do. Of course, God never explains. When life breaks your heart, you're just supposed to pick up the pieces and start all over, I guess.”
“Love is a debt, she thought. When the bill comes, you pay in grief.”
“Had I known that the heart breaks slowly, dismantling itself into unrecognizable plots of misery... had I known yet I would have loved you, your brash and insolent beauty, your heavy comedic face and knowledge of sweet delights, but from a distance I would have left you whole and wholly for the delectation of those who wanted more and cared less.”
“No amount of saying ‘I love you’ and ‘I trust you’ makes it true when it isn’t.”
“For every dream of yours that you make come true, you'll pay the price in heartbreak.”
“I've had my heart broken, and it's the hardest thing. Everyone says, 'Give it time, you'll feel better in the morning.' But you don't. You feel like it's never, ever going to heal - especially during the first few weeks.”
“I'd say it was nice knowing you, but as you've effectively ruined my life, it almost certainly hasn't been.”
“What plagues people is not those who don't love them, but those who do.”
“Only after a person has their heart broken does the world appear as it truly is.”
“The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.”
“Caroline says as she gets up from the floor, you can hit me all you want to, but I don't love you anymore.”
“Laurie felt just then that his heart was entirely broken and the world a howling wilderness.”