“Gentle reader, may you never feel what I then felt! May your eyes never shed such stormy, scalding, heart-wrung tears as poured from mine. May you never appeal to Heaven in prayers so hopeless and so agised as in that hour left my lips: for never may you, like me, dread to be the instrument of evil to what you wholly love.”
“Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime.”
“I think you are wrong to want a heart. It makes most people unhappy. If you only knew it, you are in luck not to have a heart.”
“I mean, at the end of the day, what the hell does it matter who I end up with if it can t be you?”
“you not wanting me was the beginning of me wanting myself thank you”
“Did I really want to stay on this road longer, knowing it was only going to end in devastation?”
“She took a step and didn t want to take any more, but she did.”
“But death was her curse and her gift, and death had been her good friend these long, long years.”
“Deep grief sometimes is almost like a specific location, a coordinate on a map of time. When you are standing in that forest of sorrow, you cannot imagine that you could ever find your way to a better place. But if someone can assure you that they themselves have stood in that same place, and now have moved on, sometimes this will bring hope”
“I don t know you. The only thing I know about you is, you re reading this. I don t know if your happy or not; I don t know whether you re young or not. I sort of hope you re young and sad. If you re old and happy, I can imagine that you ll smile to yourself when you hear me going, he broke my heart. You ll remember someone who broke your heart, and you ll think to yourself, Oh yes, i remember how that feels. But you can t, you smug old git. Oh you ll remember feeling sort of plesantly sad. You might remember listening to music and eating chocolates in your room, or walking along the embankment on your own, wrapped up in a winter coat and feeling lonely and brave. But can you remember how with every mouthful of food it felt like you were biting into your own stomach? Can you remember the taste of red wine as it came back up and into the toilet bowl? Can you remember dreaming every night that you were still together, that he was talking to you gently and touching you, so that every morning when you woke up you had to go through it all over again?”
“you re an expert at sorry and keeping the lines blurry”
“The saddest thing about love, Joe, is that not only the love cannot last forever, but even the heartbreak is soon forgotten.”
“Saying his name stabbed my heart, like someone had ripped through my carefully stitched up world and exposed the infected, pulsing red tissue that I thought was healing. ”
“So I placed my heart under lock and key To take some time, and take care of me But I turn around and you re standing here”
“Don t cry when the sun is gone, because the tears won t let you see the stars.”
“You can’t turn love on and off like a light switch, no matter how hard you try. All you can do is wall it off, one brick at a time, until you’ve created an impenetrable fortress around your emotions. And once that fortress is built, you camouflage it so well that even you can’t see it anymore.”
“You cannot be with someone just because you don’t want to hurt him. You have your own happiness to think about.”