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  • #1
    Lang Leav
    “I wonder if there will be a morning when you'll wake up missing me. That some incident in your life, would have finally taught you the value of my worth. And you will feel a surge of longing, when you remember how I was good to you.

    When this day comes I hope you will look for me. I hope you will look with the kind of conviction I'd always hoped for, but never had from you. Because I want to be found. And I hope it will be you - who finds me.”
    Lang Leav

  • #2
    Warsan Shire
    “Sad people have the gift of time, while the world dizzies everyone else; they remain stagnant, their bodies refusing to follow pace with the universe. With these kind of people everything aches for too long, everything moves without rush, wounds are always wet.”
    Warsan Shire, Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth

  • #3
    Warsan Shire
    “I am a lover without a lover. I am lovely and lonely and I belong deeply to myself.”
    Warsan Shire

  • #4
    Warsan Shire
    “Not everyone is okay with living like an open wound. But the thing about open wounds is that, well, you aren’t ignoring it. You’re healing; the fresh air can get to it. It’s honest. You aren’t hiding who you are. You aren’t rotting. People can give you advice on how to heal without scarring badly. But on the other hand there are some people who’ll feel uncomfortable around you. Some will even point and laugh. But we all have wounds.”
    Warsan Shire

  • #5
    Warsan Shire
    “How far have you walked for men who’ve never held your feet in their laps?”
    Warsan Shire
    tags: love

  • #6
    Warsan Shire
    “There’s nothing rebellious about loving something that can’t love you. You’re a woman, you should have known that men in the city would split you in half searching for their fathers in between your legs.”
    Warsan Shire

  • #7
    Warsan Shire
    “your mouth is a lonely place but i keep coming back.”
    Warsan Shire

  • #8
    Shannon L. Alder
    “Every woman that finally figured out her worth, has picked up her suitcases of pride and boarded a flight to freedom, which landed in the valley of change.”
    Shannon L. Alder

  • #9
    “That's when I finally got it. I finally understood. It wasn't the thought that counted. It was the actual execution that mattered, the showing up for somebody. The intent behind it wasn't enough. Not for me. Not anymore. It wasn't enough to know that deep down, he loved me. You had to actually say it to somebody, show them you cared. And he just didn't. Not enough.”
    Jenny Han, It's Not Summer Without You

  • #10
    Shannon L. Alder
    “If a man, who says he loves you, won’t tell you the details of a private conversation between him and another woman you can be sure he is not protecting your heart. He is protecting himself and the women he has feelings for. Wise women simply see things as they are, not as their low self-esteem allows.”
    Shannon L. Alder

  • #11
    Marty McConnell
    Frida Kahlo to Marty McConnell

    leaving is not enough; you must
    stay gone. train your heart
    like a dog. change the locks
    even on the house he’s never
    visited. you lucky, lucky girl.
    you have an apartment
    just your size. a bathtub
    full of tea. a heart the size
    of Arizona, but not nearly
    so arid. don’t wish away
    your cracked past, your
    crooked toes, your problems
    are papier mache puppets
    you made or bought because the vendor
    at the market was so compelling you just
    had to have them. you had to have him.
    and you did. and now you pull down
    the bridge between your houses,
    you make him call before
    he visits, you take a lover
    for granted, you take
    a lover who looks at you
    like maybe you are magic. make
    the first bottle you consume
    in this place a relic. place it
    on whatever altar you fashion
    with a knife and five cranberries.
    don’t lose too much weight.
    stupid girls are always trying
    to disappear as revenge. and you
    are not stupid. you loved a man
    with more hands than a parade
    of beggars, and here you stand. heart
    like a four-poster bed. heart like a canvas.
    heart leaking something so strong
    they can smell it in the street.”
    Marty McConnell

  • #12
    Julie de Lespinasse
    “You know that when I hate you, it is because I love you to a point of passion that unhinges my soul.”
    Julie de Lespinasse

  • #13
    Cassandra Clare
    “Hearts are breakable," Isabelle said. "And I think even when you heal, you're never what you were before".”
    Cassandra Clare, City of Fallen Angels

  • #14
    Mia Asher
    “Love is never supposed to hurt. Love is supposed to heal, to be your haven from misery, to make living fucking worthwhile.”
    Mia Asher, Arsen: A Broken Love Story

  • #15
    Charlotte Eriksson
    “I haven’t been very impressed lately.
    By people,
    or places,
    or the way someone said he loved me and then slowly changed his mind.”
    Charlotte Eriksson

  • #16
    Kathleen Glasgow
    “That's how hearts get broken, you know. When you believe in promises.”
    Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

  • #17
    “Unrequited love is a ridiculous state that makes you try to convince your heart of something your mind knows is a lie!”
    Alex Haditaghi

  • #18
    “I truly loved you, but now I'm walking away”
    Jonny Lang

  • #19
    Kamand Kojouri
    “Gone are the summer days
    and my mind along with them.
    No longer will I indulge
    in hopes of getting you back.
    It is hope that makes these chains heavier
    and autumnal nights longer.
    I will merely serve as a memory to you:
    the lover that recited love poems.
    I must go now
    and I urge you not to look back.”
    Kamand Kojouri

  • #20
    Charlotte Eriksson
    “I stood in your doorway this morning
    dreaming you’d turn around
    you’d tilt your head
    you’d softly whisper ”stay”

    or that you’d grab my arms
    to shake me while asking
    what the hell are we doing
    we love
    each other
    and this is not right
    so we will make this work
    now stay!

    You poured your coffee. Stirred the spoon like a crystal man
    with your back to me and not a sound. the fridge humming elegies while the clock ticked on
    and the streets are so clean here people rushing to work
    and maybe I should be too
    by now
    at this age
    this stage
    this town.

    I will stand in that doorway
    dreaming
    for many nights to come.”
    Charlotte Eriksson

  • #21
    Nicole Krauss
    “He went on for some time while I sat listening in silence because I knew he was right, and like two people who have loved each other however imperfectly, who have tried to make a life together, however imperfectly, who have lived side by side and watched the wrinkles slowly form at the corner of the other's eyes, and watched a little drop of gray, as if poured from a jug, drop into the other's skin and spread itself evenly, listening to the other's coughs and sneezes and little collected mumblings, like two people who'd had one idea together and slowly allowed that idea to be replaced with two separate, less hopeful, less ambitious ideas, we spoke deep into the night, and the next day, and the next night. For forty days and forty nights, I want to say, but the fact of the matter is it only took three. One of us had loved the other more perfectly, had watched the other more closely, and one of us listened and the other hadn't, and one of us held on to the ambition of the one idea far longer than was reasonable, whereas the other, passing a garbage can one night, had casually thrown it away.”
    Nicole Krauss

  • #22
    “I think anyone who opened their heart enough to love without restraint and subsequently were devastated by loss knows that in that moment you are forever changed; a apart of you is no longer whole. Some will never again love with that level of abandon where life is perceived as innocent and the threat of loss seems implausible. Love and loss, therefore, are linked.”
    Donna Lynn Hope

  • #23
    Ranata Suzuki
    “Deep down, I think everybody wants to be ‘the one’ to someone. I don’t know if I’ve ever been that person to anyone else – but I do know you are that person to me. You are the one. The only one. And you always will be.”
    Ranata Suzuki

  • #24
    Ray Bradbury
    “That's life for you," said McDunn. "Someone always waiting for someone who never comes home. Always someone loving some thing more than that thing loves them. And after a while you want to destroy whatever that thing is, so it can't hurt you no more.”
    Ray Bradbury, The Fog Horn

  • #25
    “It is the touch of a lover's arms that I so desperately crave, not the memories of a love no longer mine.”
    D.S. Mixell

  • #26
    Roshani Chokshi
    “And in such bliss does devastation grow.”
    Roshani Chokshi, The Star-Touched Queen

  • #27
    Jennifer Megan Varnadore
    “For the one that loved, the nightmare, it was simple. It never had been, but was all in their mind.”
    Jennifer Megan Varnadore

  • #28
    April Sinclair
    “Ask yourself, does this person make me feel good about myself? Do I feel safe, strong and free with this person? Those are the questions you need to ask....You have to be strong to truly be open.”
    April Sinclair, I Left My Back Door Open: A Novel

  • #29
    Kate Chopin
    “She was still under the spell of her infatuation. She had tried to forget him, realizing the inutility of remembering. But the thought of him was like an obsession, ever pressing itself upon her. It was not that she dwelt upon details of their acquaintance, or recalled in any special or peculiar way his personality; it was his being, his existence, which dominated her thought, fading sometimes as if it would melt into the mist of the forgotten, reviving again with an intensity which filled her with an incomprehensible longing.”
    Kate Chopin, The Awakening

  • #30
    Steve Maraboli
    “A beautiful thing happens when we start paying attention to each other. It is by participating more in your relationship that you breathe life into it.”
    Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience



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