“Birds sing even when the world is filled with sadness. I don't know why people can't do the same thing.”

“I've learned that sometimes a smile represents the greatest form of deceit.”

“What plagues people is not those who don't love them, but those who do.”

“I know my heart will never be the sameBut I'm telling myself I'll be okay”

“Sometimes it takes a heartbreak to shake us awake & help us see we are worth so much more than we're settling for.”

“Sometimes we must undergo hardships, breakups, and narcissistic wounds, which shatter the flattering image that we had of ourselves, in order to discover two truths: that we are not who we thought ...”

“This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.”

“From childhood's hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone.”

“You can obsess and obsess over how things endedwhat you did wrong or could have done differentlybut there's not much of a point. It's not like it'll change anything. So really, why worry?”

“The heart was made to be broken.”

“He does something to me, that boy. Every time. Its his only detriment. He steps on my heart. He makes me cry.”

“Was it hard?" I ask.Letting go?"Not as hard as holding on to something that wasn't real.”