“Every time he left, I shattered apart.”

“I think you forget that I'm still alive. It's like you don't expect me to keep on existing now that I'm not in your life every day.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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 ...”