“Every time he left, I shattered apart.”

“I'm not blaming you," he stated firmly. "I'm just trying to think. God, Kate, there are times when I think you hate me. When I think you would do anything to get rid of me. And then... then there's...”

“I think we've grown so far apart, we don't even know each other anymore.”

“Our relationship was toxic. He was slowly poisoning me. I was slowly poisoning him.”

“We might be different people now. But he still knew me better than anyone else.”

“A woman might save him from a heart attack, but she'll kill him in every other way.”

“I delete the picture of him from my phone; I delete his number. I think that if I just delete him enough, it will be like none of it ever happened and my heart won't hurt so badly”

“I stayed, to love you.I left, to love myself.”

“I'm a completely worthless woman and no man should risk his life for me.”

“Moving on is easy. It's staying moved on that's trickier.”

“Even on my weakest daysI get a little bit stronger”

“Two words. Three vowels. Four constenants. Seven letters. It can either cut you open to the core and leave you in ungodly pain or it can free your soul and lift a tremendous weight off you shoulder...”

“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 ...”