Annie Lord Biography & Quotes

“It hurts when people criticise your ex because you’re still in love with them and, now that you have lost them, you love them more than ever. Now the only relationship you share is one in the past tense: had, held, tasted, touched, breathed, believed. You can’t face the memories being ruined, because that’s all you have left.”

Heartbreak

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“I'll try my best to forget, but I think I'll love you for all my life.”

Love Life Forget Forever Heartbreak Breakup

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“Roland Barthes says tears are the truest language of love because they are sent from the body. ‘Words, what are they?’ he asks. ‘One tear will say more than all of them.”

Love Relationships Emotional Heartbreak Breakups

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“He's not worth it,' that's what they always say. But why do so many things seem to be worth more than women's anger?”

Heartbreak

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“Perhaps Joe and I can carry on loving each other, even when miles of air and experience separate us. Not in the way of wanting to wake up in the same bed, Or needing to speak to each other when something goes wrong. But as a quiet love that endures out of respect for the impact he had on my life.”

Love Relationships Heartbreak Respect Break Ups

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“Progress isn't linear, though. If you plotted it onto a graph, it wouldn't be this straight line up towards happiness. It would wiggle backwards, then forwards, up and down. You might feel worse in a month from now than you did a few weeks after it happened. But that doesn't mean you're not healing. It just means that we all experience emotions at different times.”

Healing Heartbreak Recovery

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“Knowing I've learned all these lessons reassures me because I know that even if we've reached the end, I can't ever forget him, because how can you forget something that's in the way you move, talk, breathe?”

Love Heartbreak

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“Why suffer for something ordinary?”

Life Suffering Ordinary Painful Worth

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“For us, the house will stay how it was when we were there. In our minds it will always be ours.”

Home Moving House Memory Moving On

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“...and this time it's a promise, to keep on being nice to her. To order expensive takeaways, and go on walks, and watch films that are difficult to understand, because this life could be gorgeous if only I gave myself permission to allow it.”

Self Love Recovery Acceptence

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“Love can make people want to grip on to each other so tight that they have to pull apart before they hurt each other anymore”

Relationships Heartbreak Break Ups

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“Sometimes I try to think of a future without him, but it's like trying to imagine a new colour.”

Love Pain Hurt Loneliness Future Colour Break Up

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“It feels like the worst act of betrayal in the world, to have the one who's meant to help get rid of my pain be the one making it.”

Love Pain Hurt Sad Heartbreak Break Up Betrayal Quotes

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“That's the thing about pain: we forget it.”

Heart Pain Hurt Sad Painful Forgetful

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“I'm going to really miss missing him, I think. I wish I didn't have to forget how great he was in order to feel OK about what's happened. I wish he wasn't a 'was' but an 'is'. I wish he didn't have to be caged up in the past tense.”

Love Heart Pain Past Hurt Missing Heartbreak Breakup Yearning

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“Knowing Mary has gone through the same thing makes me feel less alone with my pain.”

Pain Friendship Sad Lonely Alone Sharing Not Alone

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