Heartbreak Warfare Quotes

“The heart you’re ignoring is sitting on your sleeve, bleeding freely.”
― Heather M. Orgeron, Heartbreak Warfare

“Love is supposed to be enough. It’s not supposed to rip you to fucking shreds.”
― Heather M. Orgeron, Heartbreak Warfare

“For the moment, we’re right back there in the place we created, where we are perfect. Where our souls line up without any visible smudges on the seams.”
― Heather M. Orgeron, Heartbreak Warfare

“Tough I fully realize the gravity of the situations I am being placed in, I’m essentially just a boy living out his childhood dreams… playing the ultimate game of war. I always wanted to be a hero. To get the bad guys. That may make me a sick fuck, but there have to be men like me out there. You don’t enlist into infantry without that inherent urge to shoot something and the desire to blow shit up.”
― Heather M. Orgeron, Heartbreak Warfare

“One in five gets diagnosed with PTSD.” I nod. I know that. “One in five, Katy. Do you know how many American soldiers there are?” “Not sure.” “A million point three. I looked it up last night, and that’s just the army.” I sit there, stunned, as she goes on. One in five. One in five. “Right now, two hundred thousand are homeless. Some can’t adapt back into their old lives. Some never even make it home after they get off the bus.” I stew on her words. I know this is to give me a point of reference for my own progress, but my empathy is winning, and my heart is breaking. She looks at me pointedly. “Twenty-two soldiers kill themselves every single day.”
― Heather M. Orgeron, Heartbreak Warfare

“We are perfect, and we are impossible.”
― Kate Stewart, Heartbreak Warfare

“If you ever get tested”
― Heather M. Orgeron, Heartbreak Warfare

“As if she’s somehow heard my inner ramblings, her eyes meet mine in the mirror, and for that moment, in the middle of the desert, I get lost in ocean blue.”
― Heather M. Orgeron, Heartbreak Warfare

“I’ll pray he’ll forgive me enough to remember us for what we were and not how we ended.”
― Heather M. Orgeron, Heartbreak Warfare

“There’s a reason we were thrown into that bunker together. I have to believe that. You were destined to be a part of my life. You’ve changed me. I need you to know that. For you to know how incredible you really are. In another lifetime”
― Heather M. Orgeron, Heartbreak Warfare

“I have to believe she knows I’ll keep fighting for her”
― Heather M. Orgeron, Heartbreak Warfare

“He brushes past me as I scream his name. “Please! Please don’t walk away from me! Not like this”
― Heather M. Orgeron, Heartbreak Warfare

“Carmex,” she says softly. “It’s as simple as this. For about fifty of those fifty-six days”
― Heather M. Orgeron, Heartbreak Warfare

“It’s purpose. It keeps some of my demons from catching up with me. The more I work”
― Heather M. Orgeron, Heartbreak Warfare

“You want me to tell you all about how I have to drink myself stupid”
― Heather M. Orgeron, Heartbreak Warfare

“I need you to break my heart,” she declares”
― Heather M. Orgeron, Heartbreak Warfare

“So”
― Heather M. Orgeron, Heartbreak Warfare

“People use up all their sympathy and understanding in the first few days and weeks”
― Heather M. Orgeron, Heartbreak Warfare

“Trauma creates change you don’t choose. Healing is about creating change you do choose.” — Michelle Rosenthal”
― Heather M. Orgeron, Heartbreak Warfare

“Run far and fast”
― Heather M. Orgeron, Heartbreak Warfare

“In another lifetime”
― Heather M. Orgeron, Heartbreak Warfare

“We’re only given one shot at life”
― Heather M. Orgeron, Heartbreak Warfare

“I need you to know that you are part of me now”
― Heather M. Orgeron, Heartbreak Warfare

“My throat is raw with impending loss”
― Heather M. Orgeron, Heartbreak Warfare

“A moan escapes my throat as he gently backs me against the closed door. “Shhh,” he whispers as his lips turn up. “You trying to get us caught?”
― Heather M. Orgeron, Heartbreak Warfare

“I’ll bite,” I say as I spray sanitizer on the countertop. “How many men does it take to open a beer bottle?” “None,” he chuckles. “It should already be open when she brings it to you.”
― Heather M. Orgeron, Heartbreak Warfare

“survive being a soldier, I can survive another war, but it seems I can’t survive loving you. If I have to let you go, you have to let me go too.” He leans in on a whisper. “I love you, Katy, let me go.”
― Heather M. Orgeron, Heartbreak Warfare

“On our wedding day”
― Heather M. Orgeron, Heartbreak Warfare

“I’m not watching you do it again. I can survive being a soldier”
― Heather M. Orgeron, Heartbreak Warfare

“We are perfect”
― Heather M. Orgeron, Heartbreak Warfare