Hearbreaking Quotes

“To be forgotten by the one to whom you never forget is the worst thing ever happens.”
― Zubair Ahmed

“...and he's squinting and we're smiling because we won some happiness before I lost him”
― Adam Silvera, They Both Die at the End

“This will be the rest of my life. Forced to love her from a distance. Mourn the loss of her each day. But I will. I will smother every emotion but the one that belongs to her. I will love her until I am incapable of the feeling. She is the torture I may not survive. Eagerly, she is my undoing. Her gaze lifts, meeting eyes that are not my own. Eyes of the man who gets to have her—if she allows it. She was supposed to be my forever. Now I’ll watch her become someone else’s. Because the beast doesn’t get the beauty.”
― Lauren Roberts

“The last seconds of Gaspode's life hissed from the future to the past.”
― Terry Pratchett, Moving Pictures

“Now Shig.
Picture this: They stare at each other. From this angle, you can see how they fit together, these boys, like puzzle pieces, their elbows and shoulders modeled into one another by the years, the adventures, the skinned knees, the after school detentions.
Then Twitchy tackles him. They're half hugging, half wrestling around the room, knocking into chairs and bed frames.
Until they're not.
Until they're just hugging, standing still in the middle of the barack, the world spins on around them, time slipping away from them, faster and faster, out of their control.
Two boys who love each other, one going off to war.”
― Traci Chee, We Are Not Free