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“She averted his eyes, but not before he recognized the pain in them, a tormented and languished gaze, a stare preserved for people who were able to love deeply enough that they could be destroyed by it.”

Book:Noah's Story

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“I think sometimes we gravitate toward broken people, not ’cause we want to fix them, but ’cause we want to fix ourselves. The line between selflessness and selfishness is thin and intangible. It’s imaginary. We can’t see it. People project their problems onto other people’s problems. It happens all the time. We see ourselves in each other. We can’t help it. It’s human nature.”

Heartbreak Selfishness Selflessness Projection

Book:Return to Sender

Source: Return to Sender

“Tears don't bring people back." Pain stabs from my chest to my fingertips. "Tears aren't for the people we've lost. They are for us. So that we can remember and celebrate and miss them and feel human.”

Loss Tears Heartbreak Encouragement Death Of A Loved One Crying Over Dead

Book:Deception

Source: Deception

“The life of an individual is a constant struggle, and not merely a metaphorical one against want or boredom, but also an actual struggle against other people. He discovers adversaries everywhere, lives in continual conflict and dies with sword in hand.”

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Book:On the Suffering of the World

Source: On the Suffering of the World

“Love doesn't leave you. Not all at once. It creeps back in, making you think it can be another way, that it can still be another way, and you have to remind yourself of the reasons that it probably won't be.”

Love Heartbreak Divorce Heartache Breakups

Book:The Divorce Party

Source: The Divorce Party

“[...] we grieved for both our lives, in which we were both more dead than alive.”

Lost Self Help Heartbreak Drugs Drug Addiction Toxic Relationships Drugs And Alcohol Lost Souls Toxic Love Teen Issues

Book:Walk Away

Source: Walk Away

“Because of that, he didn't know how to love someone who actually loved him. He had learned a twisted, tormented kind of love filled with pain and exploitation.”

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Book:Noah's Story

Source: Noah's Story

“I think it’s pretty common to hold onto people, to bribe them with things, say, a body, in the hopes of keeping them from leaving you. I don’t think it’s uncommon to invert such behaviors, to become something unlovable, in an effort to speed up the process of the inevitable. Fighting is an instinct. So is running. Everybody knows how to destroy a good thing. It’s easy.”

Heartbreak Manipulation Self Sabotage

Book:Return to Sender

Source: Return to Sender

“At least, when there’s fear, there’s some human part left in you. Once that’s gone, though, there is nothing.”

Love Self Help Heartbreak Drugs Drugs And Alcohol Drugs Addiction

Book:Walk Away

Source: Walk Away

“Dear . . . You’re the poem I couldn’t finish The journey I should have never started I saw tragedy in our ending My pen bled its heart out trying to change it But you were the fight I didn’t want to lose The addiction I didn’t want to quit Yet there was only one of us holding on I wasn’t attached to the man you are But the one you could be I tried to build where there was no foundation Create a fairy tale on blank pages But some stories need not be told, let alone written You’ll read my words and won’t be moved Your arrogance will not soften You won’t be changed Your heart, if you should have one, will not bend or break The worst part of it all Is this poem is about you and you’ll never even know it”

Poetry Heartbreak

Author:Samantha King

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