“The hole in my heart, I can’t even begin to describe. It’s hard when you open your heart and let someone in and then suddenly they’re not in it anymore. It doesn’t matter whose fault it is; that empty spot stings so bad that you want to find any kind of relief, or wrap yourself up so tight you can’t feel it anymore. I knew it might be there a little while. Or maybe even a long while. For both of us.”
“I understand it, but I don t like it. I wish we could all be together like before: best friends, not heartbroken strangers.”
“Rain is a lullaby heard through a thick, isolating blanket of clouds. It is the tinkling harp of water droplets; a moist breath whistling through willow reeds; a pattering beat background to the mourner s melody. Rain is a soft song of compassion for the brokenhearted.”
“Could he be prosecuted for murder? Cause of death: broken heart. Murder weapon: words laced with bullshit.”
“Why do you think you deserve happily ever after? You were offered it before and tossed it away.”
“I could write about how I feel when I sing, write and create something from heartbreak, sorrow, sadness or just simply nothingness. How nothingness can become the most beautiful, unexplainable feeling that makes you forget about gravity for an hour.”
“Why couldn t my heart have picked him? Life would have been so much easier. Because hearts are ornery, sneaky little bastards, designed to cause misery. They want what they want, and they don t give a damn about what would make life easier or harder for the heart s owner. Della snapped.”
“The Fatal Female Flaw. It s when ordinarily sensible women fall madly in love with an unattainable man who can t or won t love them back. I also call it the Triple Fucked Factor. Rosslyn”
“Please understand. Please forgive me. I prayed every day for you to be alive, until hope became painful. Don t hate me. I still love you.”
“Deana Carter sings about it. Lady Antebellum sings about it. Eric Church. Gosh, not just country artists. Katy Perry. Everybody has a song about it because everybody s been through it. You find that person at eighteen and you lose yourself. And the tragedy is, it s the person who s completely opposed to everything you ve ever wanted. You bond with that person, and that person breaks your heart. I m that tragedy for you, and you re mine.”
“Here we are at the bottom, almost empty. It s like confetti, these dried remnants you find in the street for a party no one invited you to. But they used to be, I can admit, part of something beautiful.”
“It can be heartbreaking when you find out that your fairytale image of the world doesn t match the reality.”
“There isn t much difference between giving and leaving . While the former will ALWAYS come back to you, the latter will only do if it was meant to be yours in the first place.”
“It was just a lie that seemed real. It was a promise that was never meant to be true. The forever that had a deadline. It felt like falling in love, but it was falling in a heartbreak café!”
“Hot heart-blood leaked from my face. From my eyes and my nose and my mouth. Not tears, because those would never stop. This was just liquid heartbreak seeping from my pores.”
“How can you smile as though your whole life hasn t capsized”
“my own chocolate center has filled up with poison, the roses he gave me all twisted black”