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“My swimming cap was really sprouting leaks these days. The thing is, you could patch over the holes, but it would never be the same. Like my love life.”

Book:Does Snogging Count as Exercise?

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“Growing up seems easier for men, maybe because their rites of passage are clearer. They perform acts of bravery on the battlefield or show they're men through physical labor or by making money. For women, it's more confusing. We have no rites of passage. Do we become women when a man first makes love to us? If so, why do we refer to it as a loss of virginity? Doesn't the word 'loss' imply that we are better off before? I abhor the idea that we become women only through the physical act of a man. No, I think we become women when we learn what is important in our lives, when we learn to give and to take with a loving heart.”

Love Romance Heartache Just Imagine

Author:Suzanne Elizabeth Phillips

“Sunlight’s warmth on my face awoke me in the morning. I didn’t remember falling asleep or how I came to be in my own bed. But I did recall nightmares. Awful nightmares featuring Gwen. I turned my head to stare out an open window where the sun shone in full splendor, bleaching a clear sky enough to tell it was going to be a beautiful spring day. The air smelled of rain from overnight showers, mixed with a strong floral scent. A large lilac bush outside was responsible for the perfume. I breathed in the clean and fragrant air. My eyelids fluttered, blinking at a stunning reflection of daylight off the glass. The blue beyond gave an exquisite glow to my room. All of it was an invitation to bask in a new day—an invitation I declined because none of that mattered to me. The world might as well come to a dark and ugly end. I saw no reason for beauty or life to go on so long as Gwen was lost. Rolling over in bed, I felt the vice grips wrench at my heart again as I cried myself back to sleep. from Phantom's Veil”

Loss Heartache Mourning Richelle Goodrich Richelle Greif Gwen

Author:Richelle E. Goodrich

“Hearts are hard to mend after being broken for so long.”

Pain Heartache Broken Heart

Book:Aidan

Source: Aidan

“God have pity on the smell of gasoline which finds its way like an arm through a car window, more human than kerosene, more unctuous, more manly.”

God Driving Masculinity Gasoline Kerosene

Book:In the Voice of a Minor Saint

Source: In the Voice of a Minor Saint

“One lost easiest what one held in one’s arms— never what one left.”

Love Loss Heartache

Book:Arch of Triumph: A Novel of a Man Without a Country

Source: Arch of Triumph: A Novel of a Man Without a Country

“The past became a long, razor-sharp skewer that stabbed right through his heart. Silent silver pain shot through him, transforming his spine to a pillar of ice. The pain remained, unabated. He held his breath, shut his eyes tight, enduring the agony.”

Pain Past Heartache Agony

Book:Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

Source: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

“But she was right about one thing: it did get harder and harder. He did blame himself. And although he tried every day to remember the promise he'd made to her, every day it became more and more remote, until it was just a memory, and so was she, a beloved character from a book he'd read long ago.”

Heartache

Book:A Little Life

Source: A Little Life

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