“One day we wake up and we are broken. We taste it in our morning kiss. Our mirror tells us the same stories in separate hours: things will never be the same.” StoriesHoursMorningBrokenTasteOne DayKissingWake UpMirrors Author:Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz
“When you're dreaming with a broken heart, the waking up is the hardest part. You roll outta bed and down on your knees and for a moment you can hardly breathe.” HeartMomentsDreamBrokenBedWake UpBreatheHardestKneesWakingLost LoveHeartedBroken HeartedMature Love Author:John Mayer
“I wake up every morning and it's like when you break up with somebody who has really broken your heart.” HeartBreakMorningBrokenWake UpEvery Morning Author:Madonna Ciccone
“My car was broken into four times before it was stolen. That can drive you nuts - the repetition. I'd wake up every morning and put on my jeans over my pajamas to run down and see if my car was still on the street. That's not a pleasant way to live.” IfsWayStillsRunningMorningFourStreetsCarBrokenWake UpDown AndPleasantNutsEvery MorningRepetitionJeansStolenWay To LivePajamas Author:Charles Schumer
“Writers imagine that they cull stories from the world. I'm beginning to believe that vanity makes them think so. That it's actually the other way around. Stories cull writers from the world. Stories reveal themselves to us. The public narrative, the private narrative - they colonize us. They commission us. They insist on being told. Fiction and nonfiction are only different techniques of story telling. For reasons that I don't fully understand, fiction dances out of me, and nonfiction is wrenched out by the aching, broken world I wake up to every morning.” ThinkingWorldWayBelieveDifferentReasonStoriesFictionMorningImagineBrokenWake UpTechniqueVanityNarrativeNonfictionImagine ThatEvery MorningFiction And NonfictionBroken World Book:War Talk Source: War Talk
“And when I wake up it's wonderful, like I've been carried quietly onto a calm, peaceful shore, and the dream, and its meaning, has broken over me like a wave and is ebbing away now, leaving me with a single, solid certainty. I know now.” KnowsLifeDreamWonderfulBrokenWake UpLeavingCalmWavePeacefulCertaintyShoreLeaving Me Book:Before I Fall Source: Before I Fall
“How horrifying that morning when you wake up and your first thought is not of the person who has left. That’s when you know, I will never die of a broken heart.” KnowsFirstsHeartPersonsDiesLeftMorningBrokenWake Up Book:Salt and Saffron Source: Salt and Saffron