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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.

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

Scars Pain hurt Wish Stains

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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 Me Love Addicted To Broken Things R.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

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

— Augustus Waters, The Fault in Our Stars

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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 Mind Speaking From The Heart Afraid To Say Afraid Of Love hurt Pain Matters

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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

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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

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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

Death After Death Loss Understanding Death Losing A Loved One Suffering Pain

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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 Up Relationships soulmates

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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 Coming goodbye Beautiful Nightmare Demons Left Behind R.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

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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

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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 Ending Leaving Going Heartbreak

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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 Empty Pieces Of Ourselves Leaving and Coming R.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

Dating Relationships Heartbreak

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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

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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

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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

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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

Brave Risk Relationships Fear chances

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

Leaving Loss Relationships Ending Gone Mourning Death Quotes

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

— Nicholas Sparks, Nights On Rodanthe

Love Loss Tragedy Over Endings Best 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 Friends Pain hurt

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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

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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

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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

Dating Breakups Relationships

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i tried
you didn't
i left.

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

Love Relationships Giving romance Heartbreak

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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 Up Keep Trying Life And Death Love You Matter

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

— Gayle Forman, If I Stay

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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

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