“Kehilangan seseorang yang kita cintai menimbulkan rasa sakit yang serupa dengan ditusuk seribu jarum di bola mata. Rasa sakitnya begitu hebat, sampai kita tidak bisa bergerak, dan bahkan bernapas pun terasa sulit.”
Source: Semua Ikan di Langit
“And her husband’s misery? Has that crossed her mind? Was Jehovah a God too elevated to feel pain? How does that work with a spirit person—and Jehovah is a person—with the praise of angels constantly in His ears? Maybe His hurt is the most profound of all, because of His purity and willingness to give.
pg 15”
Source: Lamentations: how narcissistic leaders torment church and family
“This is perhaps the inevitable way of the world when the love being born is not first love, not young love, not innocent, but following upon hard experience. Be careful, the world admonishes us. Don’t get hurt again.”
Source: Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
“Since [they] had parted two years before, the slightest thing had the power to move her to pity and distress; it felt as if her heart were bruised forever.”
Source: Lyra's Oxford
“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.”
Source: Notes on Heartbreak
“Now, here I lie, on this cold, sterile bed,
Staring at the ceiling, wishing I were dead.
Counting the hours, till peace comes to me,
Longing for an end, from this misery.”
Source: 18 Stitches Of Love
“…saving ourselves sometimes means hurting others, even if only in small ways, even if only temporarily. It’s mercy math: there’s a cost, but we count, too.”
Source: Glitter Saints: The Cosmic Art of Forgiveness, a Memoir
“They say that grief numbs, but I still feel everything and mostly it hurts.”
Source: Let Him In
“He tenderly sat her back on her sofa. He softened his voice. “Katie, are you scared of me?”
The way she carefully made her face blank of all expressions told Akihiro everything he needed to know. He wasn’t sure if he was heartbroken or insulted. He decided he could be both.
“I would never hurt you, Katie,” he said cautiously.
“Maybe,” she finally said. “But men always say they ‘would never’ right before they do.”
Source: Illusive
“Falling in love, we said; I fell for him. We were falling women. We believed in it, this downward motion: so lovely, like flying, and yet at the same time so dire, so extreme, so unlikely. God is love, they once said, but we reversed that, and love, like heaven, was always just around the corner. The more difficult it was to love the particular man beside us, the more we believed in Love, abstract and total. We were waiting, always, for the incarnation. That word, made flesh.
And sometimes it happened, for a time. That kind of love comes and goes and is hard to remember afterwards, like pain. You would look at the man one day and you would think, I loved you, and the tense would be past, and you would be filled with a sense of wonder, because it was such an amazing and precarious and dumb thing to have done; and you would know too why your friends had been evasive about it, at the time.
There is a good deal of comfort, now, in remembering this.”
Source: The Handmaid's Tale