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#1

“...as long as nothing happens between them, the memory is cursed with what hasn't happened.”
― Marguerite Duras, Blue Eyes, Black Hair

tags: lust, waiting

585 likes

#2

“Desire is the kind of thing that
eats you
and
leaves you starving.”
― Nayyirah Waheed

tags: desire, love, lust, starvation

370 likes

#3

“For men, I think, love is a thing formed of equal parts lust and astonishment. The astonishment part women understand. The lust part they only think they understand.”
― Stephen King, Bag of Bones

tags: love, lust, men

183 likes

#4

“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein

tags: change, human

5417 likes

#5

“Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”
― Kahlil Gibran

tags: emotion, heartbreak, lost-love, love, parting

3246 likes

#6

“It happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then you realize that people you've known forever don't see things the way you do. So you keep the wonderful memories, but find yourself moving on.”
― Nicholas Sparks

tags: moving-on

4079 likes

#7

“You must make a decision that you are going to move on. It wont happen automatically. You will have to rise up and say, ‘I don’t care how hard this is, I don’t care how disappointed I am, I’m not going to let this get the best of me. I’m moving on with my life.”
― Joel Osteen, Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential

tags: disappointment, failure, moving-on

3890 likes

#8

“Two words. Three vowels. Four constenants. Seven letters. It can either cut you open to the core and leave you in ungodly pain or it can free your soul and lift a tremendous weight off you shoulders. The phrase is: It's over.”
― Maggi Richard

tags: breaking-up, heartbreak, letters, love, words

477 likes

#9

“When we are in love, we are convinced nobody else will do. But as time goes, others do do, and often do do, much much better.”
― Jamie Weise

tags: breaking-up, breakups, heartbreak, in-love, jamie-weise, love, love-story, passion, time-heals, writing

354 likes

#10

“I know that's what people say-- you'll get over it. I'd say it, too. But I know it's not true. Oh, youll be happy again, never fear. But you won't forget. Every time you fall in love it will be because something in the man reminds you of him.”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

tags: happiness, lost-love, love

2121 likes

#11

“If I stayed here, something inside me would be lost forever—something I couldn't afford to lose. It was like a vague dream, a burning, unfulfilled desire. The kind of dream people have only when they're seventeen.”
― Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun

tags: desire, leaving

298 likes

#12

“I don't understand how I can know so little about love and how it works. How I can be so bad at it when it's all I've ever wanted.
All I've ever known is about leaving or being left.”
― Carrie Ryan, The Dark and Hollow Places

tags: leaving, left, love

172 likes

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