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40 Times Authors Taught Us About The Haunting Reality Of Heartbreak

The Fault In Our Stars

40 Times Authors Taught Us About The Haunting Reality Of Heartbreak

Losing me will hurt; it will be the kind of pain that won't feel real at first. 

Kirsten CorleySeptember 19, 2016
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He was right, after all; it didn't leave a scar, though part of me wishes it had. At least I'd have some evidence, some justification of this permanence. Stains are even worse when you're the only one who can see them.

— Gayle Forman, Just One Day

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    'Break me again,' she said softly because she knew he was addicted to broken things. 

    — R.M Drake, R.M Drake Collection

    Break MeLoveAddicted To Broken ThingsR.M Drake

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    she gave all
    that she had
    she tried
    when you didn't
    and she'll walk away knowing
    that in the end
    you were not worthy
    of her love.

    — R.H. Sin, Whiskey, Words, and A Shovel

    LoveRelationshipsGivingromanceHeartbreak

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    That’s the thing about pain, it demands to be felt.

    — Augustus Waters, The Fault in Our Stars

    My FavoritesPainFeelingEmotion

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    But I'd long ago learned not to be picky in farewells. They weren't guaranteed or promised. You were lucky, more than blessed, if you got a good-bye at all.

    — Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever

    goodbyeGuaranteedFarewellEndings

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    Can you hate someone for what they have done, but still love them for whom they had been?

    — Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes

    DatingBreakupsRelationships

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    Our story has three parts: a beginning, a middle, and an end. And although this is the way all stories unfold, I still can't believe that ours didn't go on forever.

    — Nicholas Sparks, Dear John

    Nicholas Sparks

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    I drove her to the airport. She kissed me good-bye. She told me that she loved me more than life itself. Then she stepped through security.

    She never came back.

    — Gayle Forman, Where She Went

    goodbyeEndingsRelationships EndingLossHeartbreak

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    She was broken, I think it’s because she loved too much and she was always blind to the fact that love too is sometimes broken.

    — R.M Drake, R.M Drake Collection

    brokenBroken WomanLoveBlindLove Too Much

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    It's fucked up that you had to learn about love from those who never loved you.

    — R.H. Sin, Whiskey, Words, and A Shovel II

    LoveRelationshipsGivingromanceHeartbreak

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    Maybe there’s something you’re afraid to say, or someone you’re afraid to love, or somewhere you’re afraid to go. It’s gonna hurt. It’s gonna hurt because it matters.

    — John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson

    Saying What's On Your MindSpeaking From The HeartAfraid To SayAfraid Of LovehurtPainMatters

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    We were willing to do so much for the people we loved, even if it meant hurting ourselves. Maybe that, in the end, was what love--all kinds-- was really about.

    — Sarah Dessen, The Moon And More

    LoveLove Hurts

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    I needed to hate someone and you’re the one I love the most, so it fell on you.

    — Gayle Forman, Where She Went

    Where She WentGayle Forman QuotesGayle FormanLoveHate And Love

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    I crawled into his unmade bed, wrapping myself in his comforter like a cocoon, surrounding myself with his smell. I took out my cannula so I could smell better, breathing him in and breathing him out, the scent fading even as I lay there, my chest burning until I could't distinguish among the pains.

    — Hazel, The Fault in Our Stars

    DeathAfter DeathLossUnderstanding DeathLosing A Loved OneSufferingPain

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    Even if you find him. Even if he didn't leave you on purpose, he can't possibly live up to the person you've built him into.

    — Gayle Forman, Just One Year

    Build UpRelationshipssoulmates

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    That night I didn’t say anything. I just watched you leave and in the end, I just stayed sleeping awake. Somewhere between a sweet dream and a beautiful nightmare, hoping one day you’d return to rid me of the demons you left behind.

    — R.M Drake, R.M Drake Collection

    Leaving and CominggoodbyeBeautiful NightmareDemonsLeft BehindR.M Drake

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    Letting go. Everyone talks about it like it's the easiest thing. Unfurl your fingers one by one until your hand is open.

    — Gayle Forman, Where She Went

    Letting GoMoving OngoodbyeRelationships Ending

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    In time, the hurt began to fade and it was easier to just let it go. At least I thought it was. But in every boy I met in the next few years, I found myself looking for you

    — Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

    Utterly HeartbreakingNicholas SparksBest Of SparksLonging For Love

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    I just wanted to tell you that I understand if you go. It’s okay if you have to leave us. It’s okay if you want to stop fighting.

    — Gayle Forman, If I Stay

    Relationships EndingLeavingGoingHeartbreak

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    Maybe we feel empty because we leave pieces of ourselves in all the
    things we used to love.

    — R.M Drake, R.M Drake Collection

    Feel EmptyPieces Of OurselvesLeaving and ComingR.M Drake

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    You couldn't have strength without weakness, you couldn't have light without dark, you couldn't have love without loss.

    — Jodi Picoult, The Tenth Circle: A Novel

    DatingRelationshipsHeartbreak

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    I know what I did to you was so wrong, but at the time it also felt so necessary to my survival. I don't know if those two things can both be true, but that's how it was.

    — Gayle Forman, Where She Went

    ApologySorryRelationships EndingWhere She Went

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    The say time heals everything but honestly, I feel like time will never be on our side.

    — R.M Drake, Beautiful And Damned

    Utterly HeartbreakingHeartbreakPainLossLove And Loss

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    You can love someone so much… But you can never love someone as much as you miss them.

    — John Green, An Abundance Of Katherines

    LoveMissing YouLetting GoMissing SomeonePainHeartbreak

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    Bravery was doing something dangerous without thinking. Courage was walking into danger, knowing full well the risks.

    — Gayle Forman, Just One Year

    BraveRiskRelationshipsFearchances

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    You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.

    — John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

    getting hurtdeterminedsurebeing sure

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    Losing me will hurt; it will be the kind of pain that won't feel real at first, and when it does, it will take her breath away.

    — Gayle Forman, If I Stay

    breakupHeartbreakRelationshipLossLosing Lovehurt

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    In the beginning, she had haunted me, haunted my dreams, but even now, just weeks later, she was slipping away, falling apart in my memory and everyone else's, dying again.

    — Miles 'Pudge' Halter, Looking for Alaska

    EndingEnd Of LifeBeing humanDeathImpending DeathFalling ApartGhostAfter DeathTrying To Understand DeathUnderstanding The Opposite SexLosing HerSaying Goodbye

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     I fell in love with her when we were together, then fell deeper in love with in the years we were apart.

    — Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song

    Distance RelationshipsLove

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    Sometimes you can only feel something by its absence. By the empty spaces it leaves behind.

    — Gayle Forman, Just One Day

    LeavingLossRelationships EndingGoneMourningDeath Quotes

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    The greater the love, the greater the tragedy when it's over.

    — Nicholas Sparks, Nights On Rodanthe

    LoveLossTragedyOverEndingsBest Of Sparks

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    Don't hurt yourself, holding on to someone who prefers to hurt you.

    — R.H. Sin, Whiskey Words & a Shovel II

     

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    Because you can never go from going out to being friends, just like that. It's a lie. It's just something that people say they'll do to take the permanence out of a breakup. And someone always takes it to mean more than it does, and then is hurt even more when, inevitably, said ‘friendly' relationship is still a major step down from the previous relationship, and it's like breaking up all over again. But messier.

    — Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby

    Just FriendsPainhurt

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    If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled?

    — Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes

    HeartbreakSadnessRelationships

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    Love is fragile. And we're not always its best caretakers. We just muddle through and do the best we can. And hope this fragile thing survives against all odds.

    — Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song

    LoveRelationshipsBreakups

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    Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall.

    — Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes

    DatingBreakupsRelationships

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    i tried
    you didn't
    i left.

    — R.H. Sin, Whiskey, Words, and A Shovel II

    LoveRelationshipsGivingromanceHeartbreak

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    I know how you feel when you're alone lying on your bed, looking at your phone as if it's meant to bring you peace from all the demons tugging at your head. You ask yourself 'who in the world will love me? And you should always remember how no one will not ever, unless you love yourself.

    — R.M Drake, Black Butterfly

    Don't Give UpKeep TryingLife And DeathLoveYou Matter

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    I realize now that dying is easy. Living is hard.

    — Gayle Forman, If I Stay

    DyingLife QuotesGayle FormanGayle Forman Quotes

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    The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected. Maybe they always have been and will be. Maybe we've lived a thousand lives before this one and in each of them we've found each other. And maybe each time, we've been forced apart for the same reasons. That means that this goodbye is both a goodbye for the past ten thousand years and a prelude to what will come.

    — Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

    Nicholas Sparks

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