"The heart was made to be broken."
— Oscar Wilde

"I was like a lost moon -- my planet destroyed in some cataclysmic, disaster-movie scenario of desolation -- that continued, nevertheless, to circle in a tight little orbit around the empty space left behind, ignoring the laws of gravity."
— Stephenie Meyer (New Moon)

"After all, how many ways can one heart be mangled and still be expected to keep beating?"
— Stephenie Meyer (New Moon)

"Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could."
— Louise Erdrich (The Painted Drum: A Novel)

"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

"I won't ever leave you, even though you're always leaving me."
— Audrey Niffenegger (The Time Traveler's Wife)

"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 (Collected Stories)

"Gentle reader, may you never feel what I then felt! May your eyes never shed such stormy, scalding, heart-wrung tears as poured from mine. May you never appeal to Heaven in prayers so hopeless and so agised as in that hour left my lips: for never may you, like me, dread to be the instrument of evil to what you wholly love."
— Charlotte Brontë (Jane Eyre)

"After all my erstwhile dear, my no longer cherished;
Need we say it was not love, just because it perished? "
— Edna St. Vincent Millay

"Better never to have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for hands that are not there."
— Otomo No Yakamochi

"Well, now
If little by little you stop loving me
I shall stop loving you
Little by little
If suddenly you forget me
Do not look for me
For I shall already have forgotten you

If you think it long and mad the wind of banners that passes through my life
And you decide to leave me at the shore of the heart where I have roots
Remember
That on that day, at that hour, I shall lift my arms
And my roots will set off to seek another land
"
— Pablo Neruda (Pablo Neruda: Selected Poems)

""Was it hard?" I ask.
"Letting go?"

"Not as hard as holding on to something that wasn't real.""
— Lisa Schroeder

"'In that house, you will find my heart. You must break in, Henri, and get it back for me.'
Was she mad? We had been talking figuratively. Her heart was in her body like mine. I tried to explain this to her, but she took my hand and put it against her chest.
'Feel for yourself.'"
— Jeanette Winterson (The Passion)

"Of course, in a novel, people's hearts break, and they die and that is the end of it; and in a story this is very convenient. But in real life we do not die when all that makes life bright dies to us."
— Harriet Beecher Stowe (Uncle Tom's Cabin)

"I try to make you see my side, I always try to stay in line, but your eyes see right through, that's all they do."
— Apocalyptica ft. Adam Gontier ("I Don't Care")

"I don't know why they call it heartbreak. It feels like every other part of my body is broken too."
— Missy Altijd

"Anakin, you're breaking my heart."
— Padme

"Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe, and forget this lost Lenore!"
— Edgar Allan Poe

"She had not made a decision to give up sex, only the clamor of romance, because it was exhausting her, doing her no good and too much harm..."
— Michelle Herman (Dog)

"My heart was taken by you... broken by you... and now it is in pieces because of you.

"
— idk

"There is one province in which, sooner or later, virtually everyone gets dealt a leading role--hero, heroine, or villain.... Unlike the slight implications of quotidian dilemmas that confront the average citizen in other areas of life ... the stakes in this realm could not be higher. For chances are that at some point along the line you will hold in your hands another person's heart. There is no greater responsibility on the planet. However you contend with this fragile organ, which pounds or seizes in accordance with your caprice, will take your full measure."
— Lionel Shriver (The Post-Birthday World)

"Love is like falling down... in the end you're left hurt, scarred, and with a memory of it forever.

"
— idk

""Never chase after elevators, buses or men. There will always be another one!""
— Anonymousmale1

"Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them. "
— Fulton Sheen

"I am numbed. I am safe. I am over & yet I am creating the new beginning...

--I AM EVOLVING."
— http: yaneygirl.blogspot.com

"Invisible tears are the hardest to wipe away. Just let it out, my friend."
— Adabella Radici

"Don't cry when the sun is gone, because the tears won't let you see the stars."
— Violeta Parra

"This was something she would keep hidden within herself, maybe in place of the knot of pain and anger she had been carrying under her breastbone...a security blanket, an ace up her sleeve. She might never use it, but she would always feel its presence like a swelling secret stone, and that way when she let go of the rage, she would not feel nearly as empty."
— Jodi Picoult (Mercy)

"He looked at me intently, from what seemed behind the veil of a grave experience. Then slowly and prophetically, he said the scariest thing I'd ever heard: "Because the answer to a heartfelt question, Jack, will always break your heart.""
— Thomas H. Cook (Master of the Delta)

"The feeling of loving her and being loved by her welled up in him, and he could taste the adrenaline in the back of his throat, and maybe it wasn't over, and maybe he could feel her hand in his again and hear her loud, brash voice contort itself into a whisper to say I-love-you as if it were a secret, and an immense one."
— John Greene

"It is because I think so much of warm and sensitive hearts, that I would spare them from being wounded."
— Charles Dickens (Oliver Twist)

"Where there is greater pain, comes a thousand letters of expression."
— http: yaneygirl.blogspot.com

"Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. "
— Louise Erdrich (The Painted Drum: A Novel)

"I looked at Lucas with the pang that a parent feels when he knows his child will be hurt and that it's no one's fault and that to try to preempt the rites of passage is an act of contempt for the child's courage."
— James Lee Burke

"You broke me bodily.
The heart ain't the half of it,
And I'll never learn to laugh at it
In my good natured way.
In fact, I'm laughing less in general,
But I learned a lot at my own funeral.
And I knew you'd be the death of me,
So I guess that's the price I pay."
— Ani DiFranco

"My love is of a birth as rare
As 'tis, for object, strange and high;
It was begotten by Despair
Upon Impossibility."
— Andrew Marvell