"Isn't it funny how the memories you cherish before a breakup can become your worst enemies afterwards? The thoughts you loved to think about, the memo..."
"It’s the same with people who say, ‘Whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.’ Even people who say this must realize that the exact opposite is tr..."
"Last night I wept. I wept because the process by which I have become woman was painful. I wept because I was no longer a child with a child's blind fa..."
"If you love deeply, you're going to get hurt badly. But it's still worth it."
"Why is there ever this perverse cruelty in humankind, that makes us hurt most those we love best?"
"She hardly ever thought of him. He had worn a place for himself in some corner of her heart, as a sea shell, always boring against the rock, might do...."
"Being with her I feel a pain, like a frozen knife stuck in my chest. An awful pain, but the funny thing is I'm thankful for it. It's like that frozen ..."
"Every time we make the decision to love someone, we open ourselves to great suffering, because those we most love cause us not only great joy but also..."
"When you feel someone else's pain and joy as powerfully as if it were your own, then you know you really loved them."
"We, unaccustomed to courageexiles from delightlive coiled in shells of lonelinessuntil love leaves its high holy templeand comes into our sightto libe..."
"Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath rea..."
"Everyone always wants to know how you can tell when it's true love, and the answer is this: when the pain doesn't fade and the scars don't heal, and i..."