Love & Heart Braking Quotes

“To be brave in love wasn’t to wear your heart on your sleeve and fall in love with as many people as possible. It wasn’t to fearlessly open your heart at every turn. Being brave in love was to fearfully open your heart. When you were emotionally invested up to your neck and expected rejection and pain and refusal, bravery in love was saying the words anyway. Shrinking away to where the heart was safe was the route people took more often than not.”
― Kelly St. Clare, Love & Heart Braking

“So many sayings about the heart had been misinterpreted, and that was one of them. To be brave in love wasn’t to wear your heart on your sleeve and fall in love with as many people as possible. It wasn’t to fearlessly open your heart at every turn. Being brave in love was to fearfully open your heart. When you were emotionally invested up to your neck and expected rejection and pain and refusal, bravery in love was saying the words anyway. Shrinking away to where the heart was safe was the route people took more often than not.”
― Kelly St. Clare, Love & Heart Braking

“I opened up to him. Really. And he treated me like shit,” she slurred. “But he also treated me like a queen.” Her bottom lip trembled, and she dragged an arm over her eyes. Somehow her mascara wasn’t running or smudged still. “Why did he treat me like a queen, Cerys?”
I swilled the wine in my flagon. “Because he saw his equal in you. Someone he would protect with everything he had. Forever.”
She sniffed. “And why did he treat me like shit?”
“Because he saw his equal in you. Someone he would protect with everything he had. Forever. And he was afraid he wouldn’t succeed against the people looking to tear you both down.”
― Kelly St. Clare, Love & Heart Braking

“I held up a hand. “Save the pissing contest, Billian. You sometimes wear the same underwear two days in a row, and that’s all the knowledge I need to know I’m your superior.”
― Kelly St. Clare, Love & Heart Braking

“be brave in love wasn’t to wear your heart on your sleeve and fall in love with as many people as possible. It wasn’t to fearlessly open your heart at every turn. Being brave in love was to fearfully open your heart. When you were emotionally invested up to your neck and expected rejection and pain and refusal, bravery in love was saying the words anyway. Shrinking away to where the heart was safe was the route people took more often than not.”
― Kelly St. Clare, Love & Heart Braking

“Friendship was a balm to our souls that rivaled love, one that carried us through love and between love. That kind of bond satisfied a primal part of our makeup in a way nothing else could. Deep down, we craved togetherness, and whether a person was naturally good at finding it or not, we all needed a community. And when we didn’t have it, a secret part of us despaired.”
― Kelly St. Clare, Love & Heart Braking

“A new partner doesn’t compare. You will love another person differently. They won’t overshadow or erase what you had with your husband because you’ll like and dislike unique qualities within this new partner. You’ll form new memories and new traditions if you wish to. And none of that means you need to forget whatever you shared and created with your husband. He was an important part of your life for a long time, I’m sure. Take things slow, take pressure off yourself, and try to enjoy finding a second wave of love, knowing it’s normal to feel unsure and hesitant.”
― Kelly St. Clare, Love & Heart Braking