Who has not loved twice? More than twice? Who has never broken a heart?
Annie Dillard, The Maytrees

Sports Night: the breakup

  • Sabrina Lloyd : I broke up with YOU, Mr. "Obviously has a short-term memory loss with a myriad of other problems which I won't even go into but thinks he broke up with me because of the short-term memory loss which is so obvious".
  • Joshua Malina: No need to be formal. I've seen you naked. Call me Jeremy
When you’re done with a phone call, you let someone go. Or when you, take someone to the airport, you let them go. When you tell someone you love her, she gives you everything, and then you go out with someone else. That is not letting her go, that’s dumping her.
Emma Roberts, Scream 4
I thought I was your destination. Looks like I was just another stop on the line.
Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things
When you date someone, it’s like you’re taking a class in them and when you break up, it’s like all that knowledge is useless. It’s the emotional equivalent of an English degree.
Josh Radnor, How I Met Your Mother (via quoteworld)

Source: quoteworld

The saddest part of a broken heart /
Isn’t the ending so much as the start /
The tragedy starts from the very first spark /
Losing your mind for the sake of your heart /
Feist, Let it die
I’ve been dumped before, Renee. This isn’t pain I’m feeling, it’s nostalgia.
Calista Flockhart, Ally McBeal
Once, a great handful of a girl out west told him - I never did love you. […]How mean of her to salve her spit curled conscience by trying to take away their past! In the kitchen he had started to use those very words on Lou - they sprang readily to mind, as wounding words do - but he stopped himself.
Annie Dillard, The Maytrees
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
Stop torturing yourself, her friends said. Stop living in the past. He was gone. Capital G—Gone. He wasn’t coming back. She should focus not on the pain, but on the possibility. Something good would come from all this heartache, something always did. Everything, her friends told her, happened for a reason. She should start looking for a silver lining. She thought she might start looking for new friends.
Aryn Kyle, Boys and Girls Like You and Me
I will not be the first one to speak. And if he never calls me again, I’ll always think of him fondly. As an asshole.
Sarah Jessica Parker, Sex and the City
He reached for her hand. ‘I don’t want to lose you.’ His voice was almost in a whisper. She could feel the tears again, and she fought them back. ‘But you don’t want to keep me either, do you?’ To that, he had no response.
Nicholas Sparks, The Rescue
And I was — this is just how I was afraid you’d take it. I knew it, that you’d think this means you were right to be afraid all the time and never feel secure or trust me. I knew it’d be ‘See, you’re leaving after all when you promised you wouldn’t.’ I knew it but I’m trying to explain anyway, okay? And I know you probably won’t understand this either, but —wait— just try to listen and maybe absorb this, okay? Ready? Me leaving is not the confirmation of all your fears about me. It is not. It’s because of them. Okay? Can you see that? It’s your fear I can’t take. It’s your distrust and fear I’ve been trying to fight. And I can’t anymore. I’m out of gas on it. If I loved you even a little less maybe I could take it. But this is killing me, this constant feeling that I am always scaring you and never making you feel secure. Can you see that?
David Foster Wallace, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
I’ve got it through my head I just can’t break it to my heart
Tracy Lawrence, Can’t Break It To My Heart
She’s gone. She gave me a pen. I gave her my heart, she gave me a pen.
John Cusack, Say Anything