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 Corley
September 19, 2016
“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
Tagged: getting hurt, determined, sure, being sure
“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
Tagged: Love, Relationships, Giving, romance, Heartbreak
“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
Tagged: Love, Relationships, Giving, romance, Heartbreak
“i tried
you didn't
i left.”
— R.H. Sin, Whiskey, Words, and A Shovel II
Tagged: Love, Relationships, Giving, romance, Heartbreak
“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
Tagged: Love, Love Hurts
“Don't hurt yourself, holding on to someone who prefers to hurt you.”
— R.H. Sin, Whiskey Words & a Shovel II
“That’s the thing about pain, it demands to be felt.”
— Augustus Waters, The Fault in Our Stars
Tagged: My Favorites, Pain, Feeling, Emotion
“You can love someone so much… But you can never love someone as much as you miss them.”
— John Green, An Abundance Of Katherines
Tagged: Love, Missing You, Letting Go, Missing Someone, Pain, Heartbreak
“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
Tagged: Saying What's On Your Mind, Speaking From The Heart, Afraid To Say, Afraid Of Love, hurt, Pain, Matters
“The greater the love, the greater the tragedy when it's over.”
— Nicholas Sparks, Nights On Rodanthe
Tagged: Love, Loss, Tragedy, Over, Endings, Best Of Sparks
“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
Tagged: Don't Give Up, Keep Trying, Life And Death, Love, You Matter
“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
Tagged: Utterly Heartbreaking, Nicholas Sparks, Best Of Sparks, Longing For Love
“The say time heals everything but honestly, I feel like time will never be on our side.”
— R.M Drake, Beautiful And Damned
Tagged: Utterly Heartbreaking, Heartbreak, Pain, Loss, Love And Loss
“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
Tagged: Ending, End Of Life, Being human, Death, Impending Death, Falling Apart, Ghost, After Death, Trying To Understand Death, Understanding The Opposite Sex, Losing Her, Saying Goodbye
“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
Tagged: broken, Broken Woman, Love, Blind, Love Too Much
“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
Tagged: Feel Empty, Pieces Of Ourselves, Leaving and Coming, R.M Drake
“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
Tagged: Leaving and Coming, goodbye, Beautiful Nightmare, Demons, Left Behind, R.M Drake
“'Break me again,' she said softly because she knew he was addicted to broken things. ”
— R.M Drake, R.M Drake Collection
Tagged: Break Me, Love, Addicted To Broken Things, R.M Drake
“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
Tagged: Death, After Death, Loss, Understanding Death, Losing A Loved One, Suffering, Pain
“I realize now that dying is easy. Living is hard.”
— Gayle Forman, If I Stay
Tagged: Dying, Life Quotes, Gayle Forman, Gayle Forman Quotes
“I needed to hate someone and you’re the one I love the most, so it fell on you.”
— Gayle Forman, Where She Went
Tagged: Where She Went, Gayle Forman Quotes, Gayle Forman, Love, Hate And Love
“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
Tagged: breakup, Heartbreak, Relationship, Loss, Losing Love, hurt
“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
Tagged: Relationships Ending, Leaving, Going, Heartbreak
“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
Tagged: Letting Go, Moving On, goodbye, Relationships Ending
“Sometimes you can only feel something by its absence. By the empty spaces it leaves behind.”
— Gayle Forman, Just One Day
Tagged: Leaving, Loss, Relationships Ending, Gone, Mourning, Death Quotes
“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
Tagged: Apology, Sorry, Relationships Ending, Where She Went
“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
Tagged: Build Up, Relationships, soulmates
“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
Tagged: goodbye, Endings, Relationships Ending, Loss, Heartbreak
“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
Tagged: Scars, Pain, hurt, Wish, Stains
“Bravery was doing something dangerous without thinking. Courage was walking into danger, knowing full well the risks.”
— Gayle Forman, Just One Year
Tagged: Brave, Risk, Relationships, Fear, chances