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No, he's not sick. He's not hungry, he's not teething, he just wants to scream. I'm doing everything I can but I can't please him. If he was 35 this is when we would break up.

— Miranda Hobbes (Cynthia Nixon), Sex and the City, Season 5: Critical Condition

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Naomi: Are you breaking up with me?

Ethan: I'm breaking up with us.

— Ethan Ward (Dustin Milligan), 90210, Season 1: The Jet Set

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Michael: Jane, what's wrong?

Jane: Rafael and I broke up.

Michael: Are you okay?

Narrator: Which brings us back to the last stage of grief: acceptance.

Jane: Yeah, I am, actually. I have to be. Better to know now, you know? Before the baby comes, in the long run, it's better to know now.

— Jane Villanueva (Gina Rodriguez), Jane the Virgin, Season 1: Chapter Nineteen

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Rafael: Look last night got me thinking, too, and I realized that something has changed.

Jane: What?

Rafael: I just don't love you the way that you love me. That's the problem. That's why this won't work.

— Rafael Solano (Justin Baldoni), Jane the Virgin, Season 1: Chapter Nineteen

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Jessica Preston: I want to break up.

Dr. Neil Melendez: Why?

Jessica Preston: Because I love you.

— Jessica Preston (Beau Garrett), The Good Doctor, Season 1: Islands: Part Two

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I’ve never seen grief like it. Grief like that, it’s like an animal.

She’s not eating. She’s not sleeping. She’s whimpering. She’s sluggish. She’s not herself. The least thing and the tears come.

— Jackie Kay, Wish I Was Here

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You’re trying to find things to argue over. Because we can never just be adult and look at each other and go, “Hey, you know what? Hey, come here. Come here for a second. Um, we’re fuckin’ over, aren’t we? All right you go that way, I’ll go this way. It was good times!”

Nah, instead you’re like, "Let me just stick around for five or six years and then we can end this thing violently. Let’s do that. "

— Dane Cook, Dane Cook - Why Women Win Fights

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You gotta honor the end of the relationship.

— Vernon (Todd Robert Anderson), You're the Worst, Season 4: A Bunch of Hornballs

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Look at me. You knew it was a snake when you picked it up. You knew who I was. You don't get to act surprised now.

— Lindsay Jillian (Kether Donohue), You're the Worst, Season 3: You Knew It Was a Snake

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My girlfriend makes me want to be a better man.
So I can get a better girlfriend.

— nickelrodent, My girlfriend makes me want to be a better man.

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I guess, in the end, we were just two stars born lightyears apart. You need to find someone in your own constellation.

— Paul, You're the Worst (TV Series 2014– )

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You thought you could master me. But I'm a person. I'm not one of your hobbies.

— Lindsay (Kether Donohue), You're the Worst (TV Series 2014– )

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The vast majority of all human effort, however great or minuscule, ends in failure. So what are your options? You just admit pre-defeat that odds are you’re going to be right or you do it anyway. Maybe we’re a success regardless of the outcome, because we tried. Maybe there’s beauty in the struggle against near certain failure.

— Jimmy Shive-Overly (Chris Geere), You're the Worst (TV Series 2014– )

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Moving on isn’t about when you don’t remember anymore, it’s being okay even when you do.

— @perspicacioussithlord, via wnq-writers.com

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it is very easy to tell me you love me when it is over and you are thousands of miles away... could you love me at your front door? i don't think you could.

— Melissa Broder, So Sad Today

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Even in my dreams, I knew we weren't right for each other.

— Melissa Broder, So Sad Today

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You are so lucky to be best friends. Work hard at that. And respect that. Be patient. You don’t always have to be right. Even if you are, it doesn’t fucking matter anyway. Fight for it everyday. I wish I had.

— Celeste, Celeste And Jesse Forever

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You can love somebody and it can change your life but it doesn’t mean that you’re necessarily right to be together forever, but that love will change your life forever. And that’s okay.

— Rashida Jones, Rashida Jones talks 'Celeste and Jesse Forever'

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When he comes home
with pregnant knuckles, dripping blood all over the floor,
I feel like a volcano of a wife. I am waiting
for the tectonic plates below me to pose perfectly.
I am waiting for the last straw, the last black eye
or missing tooth I see before I pack my suitcase
and he shows me the front door.

— Lydia Havens, A Marriage, Previously Without Fists

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i don’t know how to say thank you without saying fuck you.

— Lydia Havens, abridged transcripts of all the voicemails i never left my ex-best friend By Lydia Havens

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You, a forever wound.
You, a forever wound.

— Lydia Havens, Survive Like The Water

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The wound can have (should only have) just one proper name. I recognize that I love — you — by this: you leave in me a wound I do not want to replace.

— Jacques Derrida, The Postcard: from Socrates to Freud and Beyond (trans. Alan Bass)

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So she’s gone. So I can’t handle it.

— Mitchell King, Two Poems

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This is the last poem
where you love me and how I learn to hate myself.

— Mtichell King, Fourth of July

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It’s not that he consumes me but that I consume myself, much like the ouroboros.

I prepare for future suffering. I suffer today. I suffer so that the future suffering will feel like an old shoe. I’m a fish in a net, still living.

— Jade Quinn, How To Eat Yourself

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When does a war end? When can I say your name and have it mean only your name and not what you left behind?

— Ocean Vuong, A Letter to My Mother That She Will Never Read

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How terrible it was to still be mentally and emotionally attached to someone from whom you have been physically separated.

— Elif Shafak, The Bastard of Istanbul

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I tell myself I know nothing about love so I can recover. I am recovering from a fantasy that I projected on a young man's body. He provided music and language and fingers and a face that moaned into my pussy. I am never going to recover from being that alive.

— Melissa Broder, So Sad Today: Personal Essays

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Shouldn’t letting go be painless if you’ve never learned how to hold on?

— John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson

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I just don’t want you to worry about me, or think that you’ve met me, or waste your time anymore.

— Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

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...the worst of having a romance of any kind is that it leaves one so unromantic.

— Oscar Wilde, Picture of Dorian Gray

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It’s funny how you never think about the women you’ve had. It’s always the ones who get away that you can’t forget.

— Chuck Palahniuk, Choke: A Novel

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My girlfriend dumped me on 9/11.
That's one way of making sure I'll never forget.

— ThatOneMusician, My girlfriend dumped me on 9/11.

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Breaking up is the hardest thing we do. It’s the most important thing we do, in a way. You’ve got to embrace rejection, or you’ll maintain a very limited life. It’ll be very nice and neat - and very, very small.

— Laurie Helgoe, via wnq-writers.com

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That it always takes two. For relationships to work, for them to break apart, for them to be fixed.

— Emily Giffin, Heart of the Matter

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Make sure at the end of the day, at the end of the relationship; you have yourself.

— Kriti. G, Find a way to fall in love with yourself

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Once you're done [batting], I promise you'll feel better, understanding that sometimes things just don't work out.

— Joe Pera, Joe Pera Talks You to Sleep | Adult Swim

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It feels like the matrix, where you wake up and the person is not there anymore, and you have to be like, ‘Wait, but there’s a person here for a couple of years, right?’ And you go, ‘I guess not. I guess it was just a glitch in the matrix.’ And then you have to go about your life as if there wasn’t another person there for two years. Which sucks. And you kind of have to unlearn all of your habits that you had together…’

— Gaby Dunn, My Break Up / Gaby Dunn

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Instead of dehumanising people that have wronged you, you can just kind of go, ‘Oh, you have problems and I have problems, and our problems weren’t compatible.’

— Gaby Dunn, My Break Up / Gaby Dunn

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I’d be lying if I said, ‘I will always love you’ because at some point you stop loving the people who hurt you.

— Sade Andria Zabala, A Breakup Letter To My Best Friend

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You whispered ‘I love
yous’ while you were inside me. I can
still hear them.

— Sade Andria Zabala, U Suck: shitty love poems for shitty exes

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For anybody contemplating leaving a toxic environment:

You had a life BEFORE you entered it and you WILL have a life after you leave.

— THE SLUMFLOWER, via twitter.com

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my therapist said:
overcoming trauma is all about
forgiveness
and a positive attitude and i said:
how do you forgive someone
who doesn’t even think
they did
anything
wrong.

— anxietysuccs, via anxietysuccs.tumblr.com

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Some days I would feel so lonely that I couldn’t even sleep.

— Anonymous, via www.facebook.com

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Close some doors. Not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because they no longer lead somewhere.

— Paulo Coelho, via quotethat.tumblr.com

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Girls, please don't go back to a cheater, please don't go back to a liar, and PLEASE don't go back to something that hurts you. Don't do it.

— Mallory, via twitter.com

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Ladies, if you have to worry about your man cheating on you, get yourself a new man.

— Baylee Klingler, via twitter.com

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On the morning when I woke up without you for the first time
I felt free and I felt lonely and I felt scared
And I began to talk to myself almost immediately
Not being used to being the only person there.

— The Mountain Goats, Woke Up New (Get Lonely)

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They amputated
your thighs off my hips.
As far as I’m concerned
they are all surgeons. All of them.

They dismantled us
each from the other.
As far as I’m concerned
they are all engineers. All of them.
A pity. We were such a good
and loving invention.
An airplane made from a man and wife.
Wings and everything.
We hovered a little above the earth.
We even flew a little.

— Yehuda Amichai, The Poetry of Yehuda Amichai

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I have survived. I am here. Confused, screwed up, but here.

— Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak

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Life becomes more peaceful when you eliminate toxic people and toxic habits.

— Unknown, via Tumblr

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I am learning to love the sound of my feet walking away from things not meant for me.

— Unknown, via Facebook

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It was happening. And just because it didn’t happen forever, doesn’t mean it wasn’t valuable.’

— Anonymous, Humans of New York

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Don’t be afraid of losing people, be afraid of losing yourself trying not to lose someone else.

— Unknown, via The Artidote

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If you lose someone but find yourself, you won.

— Anonymous, via Tumblr

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You can allow yourself 72 hours of wallowing time. Then you've got to get into the gym, stop eating the ice cream and move on.

— Jennifer Love-Hewitt, I'll Be Okay!

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To live in a victim place is pointing a finger at someone else, as if you have no control. Relationships are two people; everyone is accountable. A lot goes into a relationship coming together, and a lot goes into a relationship falling apart. She'd say, 'Even if it's 98 percent the other person's fault, it's 2 percent yours, and that's what we're going to focus on.' You can only clean up your side of the street.

— Jennifer Aniston, The Unsinkable Jennifer Aniston

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Have faith! Don’t become a cynic who thinks girls rule, boys drool, and true love just doesn’t exist. Know that this heartbreak is a rite of passage in life. If you can’t have faith that something great will come along again, then really, what’s the point?!

— Lauren Conrad, Ask Lauren: How to Survive a Breakup

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Let yourself go and let yourself obsess over every little detail of the breakup and the relationship. You will need to do this for yourself. You will need to allow your mind to take it all in so that by the time you get back up on your feet, you know how you feel.

— Lauren Conrad, Ask Lauren: How to Survive a Breakup

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When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It's like death.

— Dennis Quaid, Quaid: Split From Ryan Was 'Like Death'

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You see a lot of people play this blame game. Blame, blame, blame. You know? And it's a really easy thing to do, and I'm certainly guilty of it. [You have to] look at yourself and go, 'What part of this do I need to own? Which part of this is my responsibility?' And that's the painful work that you have to go through to hopefully get some real life knowledge out of it.

— Reese Witherspoon, Reese Witherspoon

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It's shocking how long the pain of a separation lingers.

— Allison Glock, More Uma

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Everybody has bad relationships and, at the end of the day, they are just a great way to set yourself up for a good relationship.

— Anne Hathaway, Anne Hathaway: 'That was a bad relationship!'

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I think the thing that I have learnt is that a bad love experience is no reason to fear a new love experience.

— Anne Hathaway, Anne Hathaway: 'That was a bad relationship!'

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Hair is so linked to how we feel and everyone goes for something radical after a break-up, but my advice is not to touch your hair. It’s the first thing women do but you’re not in a fit state to make long-term decisions. You’ll have to spend four years growing it out. Buy a lipstick instead. Go and kiss loads of other people, but don’t f***ing touch your hair.

— Alexa Chung, Hair, the strand that defines Alexa Chung’s life

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If you’re brave enough to say ‘goodbye,’ life will reward you with a new ‘hello.’

— Anonymous, via Tumblr

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Unless he’s got a 12 inch, magical dick that holds the krabby patty secret ingredient, he’s replaceable. stop putting up with his shit.

— vulnerablx, via Tumblr

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No matter what others tell you or make you feel, you are worthy of love and you WILL be loved, again and again and again.

— Sade Andria Zabala, 25 Lessons I Learned From My Past Relationships

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If you are reading this, you have survived your entire life up until this point.

You have survived traumas, heartbreak, devastation, the elements, different phases of life. And here you are.

You go, motherfucker. You’re awesome.

— askclint, via Tumblr

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Respect yourself enough to walk away from anything that no longer serves you, grows you, or makes you happy.

— Robert Tew, 6 Reasons Why You Should Let Go of a Toxic Relationship

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Stop calling people who don't call you. Stop visiting people who don't know where you live. Stop making time for people who don't have time for you. Stop spending on people who don't spend on you. Stop thinking about people who don't think about you. You will make yourself emotionally bankrupt. You can love someone from a distance and I am not just talking about romantic relationships, but all relationships: friends, family, etc. Treat people the way they treat you and stop over-exerting yourself and giving love where it's not returned. Life is difficult enough without having to beg people for their love and attention. The least you can do for yourself is surround yourself with people who genuinely love and care about you. And most importantly surround yourself with people that don't see you as an option. There is nothing worse that people who treat you like you are replaceable.

— Unknown, via Facebook

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Nobody warned me it would break us. But it did. Or rather, it broke me, and then I broke us.

— Paula Hawkins, The Girl On The Train

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Relationships take hard work and…just kidding. You’re still young and there are about 7,159,894,536 people in the world. If your relationship is shit say you’re going out for cigarettes, never come back and start over.

— Anna Bashedly, 40 Things Every 20-Something Needs to Be Reminded of Sometimes

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If they don’t need you, it’s okay, you do not live for other people.

— Anonymous, via Tumblr

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But romantic love is much more than a cocaine high -- at least you come down from cocaine. Romantic love is an obsession. It possesses you. You lose your sense of self. You can't stop thinking about another human being. Somebody is camping in your head... And the obsession can get worse when you've been rejected.

— Helen Fisher, The brain in love

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Parting is all we need to know of hell.

— Emily Dickinson, Parting by Emily Dickinson

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He floods me with dread.

— Amy Winehouse, Wake Up Alone

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I'll be some next man's other woman soon.

— Amy Winehouse, Tears Dry On Their Own

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I died a hundred times
You go back to her
And I go back to...

I go back to us.

— Amy Winehouse, Back To Black

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We only said goodbye with words.

— Amy Winehouse, Back To Black

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Sometimes the kindest thing to do is to let people go.

— Leanne Taylor, Orange Is The New Black: "Season 3, Episode 09"

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I used to spend a lot of time thinking how I could make you love me. Like, if I had long pretty hair, or if I made chocolate cake with frosting, or if I had a green bicycle. Turns out the answer is you’re not a nice person. You’re a mean person. And I used to think you was a yellow dandelion, but you’re all dried up with the puff blown off.

— Suzanne Warren, Orange Is The New Black: "Season 1, Episode 12"

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I love you. But we both know I don't have the balls to free-fall through life with you.

— Piper Chapman, Orange Is the New Black: "Season 1, Episode 13"

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We're not a family. We're a band-aid and once you rip it off, all we are to each other is scars.

— Maria Ruiz, Orange Is the New Black: "Season 3, Episode 03"

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Sometimes people just don't want to play with you, and that's okay.

— Suzanne Warren, Orange Is the New Black: "Season 2, Episode 03"

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I regret opening up to some people; they didn’t deserve to know me like that.

— Anonymous, via Tumblr

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If he won’t be your boyfriend, if he won’t commit, if he treats you badly, if he doesn’t appreciate you, if he only appreciates you for sex and can’t be bothered when you’re fully clothed, forget him. It seems so obvious, yet so many of us fail in this area.

— Sabrina Alexis, 10 Simple Ways To Keep Your Standards High And Still Find Love That Lasts

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If you wouldn't let your friend's sweetie talk to her that way, don't put up with it yourself.

— Jen Anderson, 10 Dating Tips I REALLY Wish I'd Followed While I Was Single

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Dating someone who you're just not into is a total waste of time. Be realistic with yourself: Are you embarrassed to call him your "boyfriend"? Has he met your friends? Would you rather be watching Netflix than talking to him? Are you only with him for fear of being single? These are all good signs that you're just not that into him, and you should peace out of this relationship. Trust us, being single is way better than being in a crappy relationship.

— Arielle Pardes, 12 Dating Tips That Will Transform Your Love Life

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You know what? I'm done being made responsible for your unhappiness.

— Harry Potter, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Parts One and Two (Special Rehearsal Edition): The Official Script Book of the Original West End Production

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He wanted me to be the sky.

I left because he couldn’t see I already was.

— Sade Andria Zabala, Thought Of The Day

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Stop chasing after boys who don’t even make the effort to message you, chase you, or get to know you. You are sick of people who make you feel they don’t want you enough. Find someone who knows what they want. Find someone who knows what they want is you.

— Sade Andria Zabala, WAR SONGS

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Losing you must be what rotting in hell feels like.

— Sade Andria Zabala, Ungodly Hour

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You are a hole in my life, a black hole. Anything I place there cannot be returned. I miss you terribly.

— Timothy Conigrave, Holding the Man

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the next time you
have your coffee black
you’ll taste the bitter
state he left you in
it will make you weep
but you’ll never
stop drinking
you’d rather have the
darkest parts of him
than have nothing

— Rupi Kaur, milk and honey

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But whether it’s that
or the aroma of
freshly brewed caffeine
wafting in the air,

I miss the way we used to argue.

— Sade Andria Zabala, Starbucks: Decaf & Movie Sequels

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A breakup can feel almost like a death … and it kind of is. It’s the death of potential, the death of all the possibilities that could have been.

— Sabrina Alexis, Everything You Need To Know If You Want Love That Lasts

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Friends will leave you. YOU will never leave you.

— Gigi Engle, Why The Older You Get, The More You Hate Everyone (And Why That's OK)

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You stop doing things to please other people and start doing things to please yourself. A lot of friendships will get trashed by this simple fact alone. Once you stop letting people treat you like garbage, most people don’t see a use for you anymore.

— Gigi Engle, Why The Older You Get, The More You Hate Everyone (And Why That's OK)

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Never forget: self-awareness is a sacred duty, one that rises above everything else. It would be selfish to think that you are no use to anyone and to waste your talents and energy following around people who don’t know what they want to do with their lives.

— Martin Laird, Why Successful People Leave Their Loser Friends Behind

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