“ It hurts to love. It's like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin. Susan Sontag
“ You reached into my chest with your words. When you spoke, my heart danced. Love muddled thoughts based in reason. Interest withered like a flower in dry heat then your words wrapped themselves around… Sonya Watson
“ Could he be prosecuted for murder? Cause of death: broken heart. Murder weapon: words laced with bullshit. Julie Prestsater
“ 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 Nikki Sex
“ I understand it, but I don't like it. I wish we could all be together like before: best friends, not heartbroken strangers. Amy Plum
“ It's a certain tragedy when agony and resentment are all you have left connecting you to someone you once loved. J.S.B. Morse
“ She knew Neal loved her. Good for him for realizing it wasn't enough to make him happy. That was very mature of him. He was probably saving them both a lot of heartache. Rainbow Rowell
“ She was the wish of his life. He didn’t know how else to say it. He didn’t even know that he could really explain, just that every time he saw her he felt his bones might break under the weight of his… C.J. Carlyon
“ Remembrance is a strange thing. With love its pain is bearable. With bitterness it simply destroys. Elaine di Rollo
“ The pain of one-sided love, of knowing that I had loved her more than she had loved me Sierra Simone
“ I watched you try on suits in Hugo Boss.‘For the big job,’ you said. And I laughed, because I knew I would never see it. I’d never get up and watch you put it on and walk out of the door. I would neve… Kate Chisman
“ Naturalists tell of a noble race of horses that instinctively open a vein with their teeth, when heated and exhausted by a long course, in order to breathe more freely. I am often tempted to open a ve… Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“ If we have a relationship with Jesus Christ and believe the Bible to be the Word of God, then we have no room for wallowing in the swamp of self-pity. Lois Mowday Rabey
“ But I knew what it said. That I could be imperfect, but only so much. Human, but only within limits. And honest, to her or to myself, never. Sarah Dessen