“ That the world I was in could be soft, lovely, and nourishing was more than I could bear, and so I stood there and wept, for I didn't want to love one more thing that could make my heart break into a… Jamaica Kincaid
“ If love were human I would’ve set them on fire by now — a screaming blaze of smoke and flesh. I’d breathe in the blackness once more just to feel love’s destruction, its mortality filling in the hollo… Piper Payne
“ Sometimes I think my scars are beautiful, but then I remember not everyone shares the same love of art. Piper Payne
“ There is somethingmystically sadand beautifulabouthowi will neversee youagainbut meet youagain and againin poetry. Sanober Khan
“ She felt her in her heart all the time now, yearning for her lost love and lamenting for past mistakes. The Lady’s grief was overwhelming sometimes, making Sofia sad for no reason at all, especially a… Effrosyni Moschoudi
“ Birds sing even when the world is filled with sadness. I don't know why people can't do the same thing. Michael Gilbert
“ Let her go,” Brendan said, and Will did. And that was the biggest mistake of his life. Letting her go. Allie Burke
“ Because pieces of your heart clearly weigh more when they're sitting shattered at the bottom of your stomach. Heather Brewer
“ What Karen wants to do - needs to do - is cry, but she can't. Here, alone, when she could howl, beat the sofa cushions, scream; now, somehow, she is unable. It's for fear that if she gives in to it, s… Sarah Rayner
“ And yes, being lovesick is like being in mourning. Because you die, because your future dies and you with it...There is a hurting time. It lasts for so long. But it gets better. I know that now. Nina George
“ They always prided themselves on looking youthful. “Forty’s the new thirty,” they’d joke.Until heartbreak and grief enter your life, and then forty’s the new one hundred. Melina Marchetta
“ It's like she has her heart in her hand and it's broken. She's holding it out and showing me all the little pieces. Or maybe it's my heart. Nyrae Dawn
“ Losing him was like having a hole shot straight through me, a painful, constant reminder, an absence I could never fill. Jojo Moyes
“ I could feel my insides sink. My knees too. So I sat on the ground, against the wall, letting it support me. I thought I knew what heartbreak felt like. I thought heartbreak was me, standing alone at… Jenny Han
“ I knew it would be all of those things and so much more to me, but it was his heart I was yanking from his chest with my decision, and that’s what mattered to me. I was giving up a piece of my own as… Rachael Wade
“ He felt like his own heart might stop beating just from acknowledging the concept. The sadness, the sorrow, and the loss, they were living things, funnily enough. Adam P. Knave
“ My heart broke when he died, split in half and fell down into my stomach or somewhere deep and muddy, and I'm still not sure where it is now. I hear it beating sometimes in my ears, or feel its fast p… Jen Violi
“ How many losses does it take to stop a heart,to lay waste to the vocabularies of desire? Dorianne Laux
“ Come up into the hills, O my young love. Return! O lost, and by the wind grieved, ghost, come back again, as first I knew you in the timeless valley, where we shall feel ourselves anew, bedded on magi… Thomas Wolfe
