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  • #1
    W. Somerset Maugham
    “How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode.”
    W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil

  • #2
    Graham Greene
    “Like some wines our love could neither mature nor travel.”
    Graham Greene, The Comedians

  • #3
    Kathryn Stockett
    “Stuart needs "space" and "time," as if this were physics and not a human relationship.”
    Kathryn Stockett, The Help

  • #4
    Jodi Picoult
    “I knew that somewhere God was laughing. He had taken the other half of my heart, the one person who knew me better than I knew myself, and He had done what nothing else could do. By bringing us together, He had set into motion the one thing that could tear us apart.”
    Jodi Picoult, Harvesting the Heart

  • #5
    Nick Hornby
    “Those days are gone, and good fucking riddance to them; unhappiness really meant something back then. Now it's just a drag, like a cold or having no money. If you really wanted to mess me up, you should have got to me earlier.”
    Nick Hornby, High Fidelity

  • #7
    David Levithan
    “when things break, it's not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again. it's because a little piece gets lost -- the two remaining ends couldn't fit together even if they wanted to. the whole shape has changed.”
    David Levithan, Will Grayson, Will Grayson

  • #8
    Richard Siken
    “You go to work the next day pretending nothing happened.
    Your co-workers ask
    if everything's okay and you tell them
    you're just tired.
    And you're trying to smile. And they're trying to smile.”
    Richard Siken

  • #9
    Suzanne Finnamore
    “I remember one desolate Sunday night, wondering: Is this how I´m going to spend the rest of my life? Marrid to someone who is perpetually distracted and somewhat wistful, as though a marvelous party is going on in the next room, which but for me he could be attending?”
    Suzanne Finnamore

  • #10
    Lindsey Kelk
    “I wasn't in love with Simon any more. I hadn't been in love with Simon for a long time. I was in love with not being on my own, with having someone there at the end of the day and now I knew I didn't need that. My heart was not broken over him: it was breaking for the things I had wanted from him. And I didn't want them any more.”
    Lindsey Kelk, The Single Girl's To-Do List

  • #11
    Suzanne Finnamore
    “He announces that lately he keeps losing things. "Like your wife and child," I want to say, but don´t. At fourty, I´ve learned not to say everything clever, not to score every point.”
    Suzanne Finnamore, Split: A Memoir of Divorce

  • #12
    Jarod Kintz
    “I met my girlfriend at a bar. But I broke up with her because she was already there, hitting on another guy.”
    Jarod Kintz, At even one penny, this book would be overpriced. In fact, free is too expensive, because you'd still waste time by reading it.

  • #13
    “If you have to speculate if someone loves you and wants to be with you, chances are they don't. It's not that complicated. Love, in most cases, betrays the one feeling it. Don't waste moments waiting and wondering. Don't throw away your time dreaming of someone that doesn't want you. No one is that amazing, certainly not the one who would pass you up.”
    Donna Lynn Hope

  • #14
    Alexandra Potter
    “C'mon, you're gonna get upset sometimes. Breaking up is a shitty business. Someone always gets hurt. This time it happens to be you.”
    Alexandra Potter, Going La La

  • #15
    Kellie Elmore
    “Watch me go. Watch me. Because you said i couldn't. Because you thought I wouldn't. Go on, cry now. Cry.”
    Kellie Elmore, Jagged Little Pieces

  • #16
    Olaotan Fawehinmi
    “There isn't much difference between "giving" and "leaving". While the former will ALWAYS come back to you, the latter will only do if it was meant to be yours in the first place.”
    Olaotan Fawehinmi

  • #17
    Robin Brande
    “Do you want your scarf back?' I asked.
    'No, just the girl who goes with it.'
    Oh my gosh, that guy knows his lines.”
    Robin Brande, Fat Cat

  • #18
    Robin Brande
    “Yeah, great at the physical level level, but I still need more. Sorry. Maybe someday I'll accidentally fall in love with you after all, and we'll be right back here.”
    Robin Brande, Fat Cat

  • #19
    Stephenie Meyer
    “It was like someone had died- like I had died. Because it had been more than just losing the truest of true loves, as if that were not enough to kill anyone. It was also losing a whole future, a whole family- the whole life that I'd chosen... ”
    Stephenie Meyer, New Moon

  • #20
    Chris Manby
    “There is never a right time to break someone's heart. And anyone with even a microgram of sensitivity in his or her body will agonise for an age over that timing. Only problem is there is always some reason not to make someone unhappy. The day a relationship end, if that relationship was at all important to the suckers involved, becomes as important an anniversary as a wedding day or birthday.
    Obviously, the average person doesn't want to kick someone they once loved while that person is down.  
    It's not just hard times when someone is down that become obstacles to making your getaway. After times of bereavement, unemployment and general unhappiness, those events that should be happy ones also make some times off limits for the eager would- be dumper. Christmas, birthdays, Easter  all impossible. A clever person with a sensitive lover that they sense is not quite as into them as he or she used to be, could starve off the inevitable for years by carefully spacing out this crucial dates.”
    Chris Manby, Getting Personal

  • #21
    Lucinda Rosenfeld
    “Things are really fucked up right now. We hardly see each other anymore and when we do, we go to sleep on opposite sides of the bed”
    Lucinda Rosenfeld, What She Saw...

  • #22
    Ransom Riggs
    “I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was. Likewise, I never imagined that home might be something I would miss.”
    Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

  • #23
    Wallace Stegner
    “[T]hat old September feeling, left over from school days, of summer passing, vacation nearly done, obligations gathering, books and football in the air ... Another fall, another turned page: there was something of jubilee in that annual autumnal beginning, as if last year's mistakes had been wiped clean by summer.”
    Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose

  • #24
    Gillian Flynn
    “We named the bar The Bar. "People will think we're ironic instead of creatively bankrupt," my sister reasoned.
    Yes, we thought we were being clever New Yorkers - that the name was a joke no one else would really get, like we did. Not meta-get ... But our first customer, a gray-haired woman in bifocals and a pink jogging suit, said, "I like the name. Like in Breakfast at Tiffany's and Audrey Hepburn's cat was named Cat.”
    Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

  • #25
    Albert Camus
    “You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
    Albert Camus

  • #26
    “Promise Yourself

    To be so strong that nothing
    can disturb your peace of mind.
    To talk health, happiness, and prosperity
    to every person you meet.

    To make all your friends feel
    that there is something in them
    To look at the sunny side of everything
    and make your optimism come true.

    To think only the best, to work only for the best,
    and to expect only the best.
    To be just as enthusiastic about the success of others
    as you are about your own.

    To forget the mistakes of the past
    and press on to the greater achievements of the future.
    To wear a cheerful countenance at all times
    and give every living creature you meet a smile.

    To give so much time to the improvement of yourself
    that you have no time to criticize others.
    To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear,
    and too happy to permit the presence of trouble.

    To think well of yourself and to proclaim this fact to the world,
    not in loud words but great deeds.
    To live in faith that the whole world is on your side
    so long as you are true to the best that is in you.”
    Christian D. Larson, Your Forces and How to Use Them

  • #27
    Charles M. Schulz
    “Happiness is a warm puppy.”
    Charles M. Schulz

  • #28
    Paul Simon
    “I've got nothing to do today but smile.”
    Simon and Garfunkel

  • #29
    “She had hope in her heart but after a while, with each step forward, hope stepped back. And for the first time in months, the first time ever, she began to weep, and as she did she knew that with the retreat of hope her heart had finally caught up with her head. And as each tear spilled over she let them go, she was letting go.”
    Donna Lynn Hope

  • #30
    Anaïs Nin
    “I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.”
    Anais Nin

  • #31
    Anaïs Nin
    “We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.”
    Anais Nin



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