55 quotes found
“You realize you've forgiven people, your past and yourself when you don't speak bad about them anymore, even if you're encouraged to do so, even if you remember you were once brutally broken becaus...”
“I am getting tired of feeling disappointed. I am getting tired of other people trying to always take my kindness for weakness, I sure don't deserve it. I should assume responsibility and become col...”
“I know youre just a rag doll now, sewn together with memories that we might have had. I know youre just the dream inside of a dream And dont worry, I know I dont know you, anymore.”
“But how to explain suffering because of a man? It's not explainable. With that kind of suffering, a person feels as if they're in hell, because there is no nobility, no greatness - only misery.”
“Please do not become so hurt by life that when someone loving comes along, or something good happens, you resist allowing the love and joy in.”
“Don't let your loyalty become your slavery.”
“Plus, how can she be your soul mate? Didn't you tell me she'd never read Harry Potter? Do you really want to spend the rest of your life with someone like that? I mean, for God's sake, think of you...”
“The faster you search for a new partner, the faster you will get over your break-up blues. Love is nothing more than an illusion.”
“I looked at her, unsure how to answer. Even after everything Mikael had done, every day I had to let go again. He was a habit in my thoughts, not any more welcome than a rash, but I'd find myself t...”
“Now,Because I put you in the past,My life is like:A path paved,Fit for your feet.Now other women walk on it;And not one of them fits.Walking crooked, on a path that's straight.I watch them.They don...”
“When the tears were gone I washed my face and walked back to the store to finish my shopping. Because even when your heart is breaking you still need bread and Rice Krispies and orange juice.”
“Who do those boys think they are, treating us as if we are their property, taking away our innocence?”
“Once in a while, I smell Clive on my skin and it stops my day. It's a train crossing; I wait to pass. Eventually the lights stop flashing, the barriers lift. I keep moving.”
“I always say that anybody whos single like Sara their love is the most intense love. The heartbreak theyre enduring is the most intense heartbreak. We cannot understand what Saras going through. ...”
“She broke my heart, so now I have to write about her forever. It made everything different. It's something that can only happen once.”
“You can see the people who thought they could come to London, bend over and pick gold off the streets. Theyre all lying on benches in Trafalgar Square with hernias and cans of Special Brew.”
“I thought I was over him! So why did my heart still rip? Why did I still feel this sorrow? I got this strange sensation that God was with me. And he was angry. He was very angry--not at me and not ...”
“You know I blamed Craig for not letting me do things? You know how stupid I feel about that now? Maybe he didn't really encourage me to do things, but he didn't prevent me from doing them either. B...”
“In my card catalogue, the Dewey Decimal System had placed him firmly under Ancient History.”
“We get together with people because theyre the same or because theyre different, and in the end we split with them for exactly the same reasons.”