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
“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
Tagged: goodbye, Guaranteed, Farewell, Endings
“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
Tagged: Just Friends, Pain, hurt
“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
Tagged: Nicholas Sparks
“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
Tagged: Nicholas Sparks
“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
Tagged: Love, Relationships, Breakups
“ 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
Tagged: Distance Relationships, Love
“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
Tagged: Heartbreak, Sadness, Relationships
“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
Tagged: Dating, Breakups, Relationships
“Can you hate someone for what they have done, but still love them for whom they had been?”
— Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes
Tagged: Dating, Breakups, Relationships
“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
Tagged: Dating, Relationships, Heartbreak