“That was the thing. You never got used to it, the idea of someone being gone. Just when you think it’s reconciled, accepted, someone points it out to you, and it just hits you all over again, that shocking.”
― Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever
Image: Yury Orlov
“Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn’t stop for anybody.”
– Stephen Chbosky (The Perks of Being a Wallflower)
“Perhaps this is what the stories meant when they called somebody heartsick. Your heart and your stomach and your whole insides felt empty and hollow and aching.”
― Gabriel García Márquez
“Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime.”
― Mineko Iwasaki
Image: Benjamin Voros
“Sometimes life has a cruel sense of humor, giving you the thing, you always wanted at the worst time possible.”
― Lisa Kleypas
Image: confession – Kinga Cichewicz
“Someday you’re gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You’ll see that you were in mourning and your heart was broken, but your life was changing. ..”
― Elizabeth Gilbert
Image: Horváth Attila
“Hearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they did, but we don’t.”
– Stephen King
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“This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, (Eat, Pray, Love)
“To have felt too much is to end in feeling nothing. ”
– Dorothy Thompson
“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”
― Anais Nin
