“You don't know love, till you've known heartbreak.”
Source: Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables
“I don't know why people try to be friends with their exes. I mean, we were never friends, so why try after having decided that an intimate relationship isn't going to work? Friendships are intimate, too. You can't just, like, turn the connection down a notch and hope to make it better. It's still the same connection, and if it's faulty it's going to stay faulty.”
Source: A Room Called Earth
“People don’t warn you that heartbreak is a chronic condition. Maybe it
quiets down a little over time, or you can muffle it with distance, but the ache
never quite dials down to zero. It’s there lurking in the background, ready to
flare back up the minute you let your guard down.”
Source: Here's to Us
“We have reached a veredict, your honor. This man's heart is deficient. He loves, but his love is worth nothing.”
Source: Millennium Approaches
“A person could theoretically love and maybe many do but we both know now you can't.”
Source: Angels in America
“For someone who lives in love, pain is nourishment.”
Source: Making Britain Civilized: How to Gain Readmission to The Human Race
“it was as impossible to imagine falling out of love with Elliot as it was to imagine holding my breath for an hour.”
Source: Love and Other Words
“The thought of separating from Jessica was like having his guts ripped out, but these days being married to Jessica was like having his guts ripped out. Whatever way you looked at it: guts ripped out.”
Source: Nine Perfect Strangers
“I could hear no more. I couldn't see, couldn't think, couldn't speak. This couldn't be happening again. How could it possibly be happening again? Was I, like my eldest daughter, caught in some delusion, except in my waking dream everyone I loved was to be taken from me?”
Source: My Dear Hamilton
“THE MAXIMS OF MEDICINE
Before you examine the body of a patient,
Be patient to learn his story.
For once you learn his story,
You will also come to know
His body.
Before you diagnose any sickness,
Make sure there is no sickness in the mind or heart.
For the emotions in a man’s moon or sun,
Can point to the sickness in
Any one of his other parts.
Before you treat a man with a condition,
Know that not all cures can heal all people.
For the chemistry that works on one patient,
May not work for the next,
Because even medicine has its own
Conditions.
Before asserting a prognosis on any patient,
Always be objective and never subjective.
For telling a man that he will win the treasure of life,
But then later discovering that he will lose,
Will harm him more than by telling him
That he may lose,
But then he wins.
THE MAXIMS OF MEDICINE by Suzy Kassem”
Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem