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#1

“Isn't it funny how the memories you cherish before a breakup can become your worst enemies afterwards? The thoughts you loved to think about, the memories you wanted to hold up to the light and view from every angle--it suddenly seems a lot safer to lock them in a box, far from the light of day and throw away the key. It's not an act of bitterness. It's an act if self-preservation. It's not always a bad idea to stay behind the window and look out at life instead, is it?”
― Allyson Braithwaite Condie, First Day

tags: allyson-braithwaite-condie, box, breakup, church, day, first, humor, lockup, love, memories, novel, pain, religion, romance

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#2

“If you have to convince someone to stay with you then they have already left.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: advice, boyfriends, choices, commonsense, convince, dating, girlfriends, leaving, love, marriage, marriage-101, men, relationships-101, self-worth, staying, stayingpositiveu-com, undecided, women

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#3

“Angry at him for leaving without a word, angry at myself for being so easy to leave and for not being enough to make him want to stick around.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

tags: death, leaving, life, love, missing, quote, relationship

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#4

“I’d found out that when you’re never going to see someone again, it’s not the good-bye that matters. What matters is that you’re never going to be able to say anything else to them, and you’re left with an eternal unfinished conversation.”
― Morgan Matson, Amy & Roger's Epic Detour

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#5

“The Saddest Thing
There was someone I knew, a long time ago. I was so in love with him I couldn’t see straight. The saddest thing is, he felt the same way about me.

It was easy in the beginning. All we had to do was laugh at the same things and love took care of the rest. I had never felt so connected to another person.

He would always say it felt as though I was made for him. How glad he was to have met me. We were so sure of what we felt. We should have held tight, onto that certainty.

There is never one particular reason why two people are pulled apart. All these years later, I have stopped looking for answers. I know better now, that love is never a guarantee. Not when you have the rest of the world to contend with.

Sometimes you have to step back and look at these things from a philosophical standpoint. And I know loving him has taught me something about myself, it has broadened my understanding of the world. And if it has done the same for him, then it wasn’t all in vain.”
― Lang Leav, Lullabies (Volume 2)

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#6

“When you care about things, it ends up wearing you out.”
― Sakisaka Io

tags: care, endings, ends, life, life-quote, pain, reality, reality-of-life, sad, sad-but-true, sad-love, things-that-matter, things-that-matter-in-life, truth, wearing-out

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#7

“Gosto do que não tem fim. Gosto de coisas que não terminam.”
― Becky Albertalli, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

tags: endings, feelings, life, love

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#8

“With us, there were always too many false starts. I believe that what's meant to be usually has a way of working out... and with us, it never did. Call it timing, call it fate, call it what you want. It is what it is. Sometimes in the end, the girl doesn't always get the boy--and that's ok. Life goes on. You know better than anyone that some love stories never get their happy ending... but it doesn't make them any less of a love story though, does it? It doesn't make the love the two shared any less relevant.”
― Britney King, Somewhere With You

tags: endings, fate, love-story, timing

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#9

“The end never comes when you think it will. It’s always ten steps past the worst moment, then a weird turn to the left.”
― Lena Dunham, Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"

tags: endings, expectations

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#10

“It all begins and ends in your mind. What you give power to has power over you.”
― Leon Brown

tags: endings, power

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#11

“The greatest challenges humans face throw-out their lives are two:
1- the challenge of where to start
2- the challenge of when to stop”
― Sameh Elsayed

tags: adam-elsayedtood, beginning, challenges, endings, experience-plus, human-development, humans, joumana-ezz, lives, noha-abdel-hameed, start, stop

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#12

“There's never the right last moment. Even if you get to say good-bye, even if you get to say "I love you", even if you jump off a plane and get a tattoo and hug everyone you've ever met right before you drift off with a smile, it is never the right last moment. There is always more to say, somewhere to go, something to remember. Another discussion, another fight. There is always supposed to be another day.”
― Pamela Ribon, You Take It From Here

tags: endings, last, love

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#13

“She missed him. And she was scared, deep down, because she felt him pulling away from her, and even though he assured her he wasn't, she didn't believe him.”
― Harriet Evans, Happily Ever After

tags: distancing, endings, losing-someone, verge-if-breaking-up

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#14

“That's how you know you love someone, I guess, when you can't experience anything without wishing the other person were there to see it, too.”
― Kaui Hart Hemmings, The Descendants

tags: love, missing

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#15

“But nothing makes a room feel emptier than wanting someone in it.”
― Calla Quinn, All the Time

tags: distance, loneliness, missing, missing-someone, missing-you

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#16

“Knowing someone isn't coming back
doesn't mean you ever stop waiting”
― Toby Barlow

tags: hopeless, missing, waiting

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#17

“Sometimes you will never know the value of something,until it becomes a memory.”
― Dr. Seuss

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#18

“Everyone that has ever done anything significant first found themselves in the place where the status quo no longer was enough.”
― TemitOpe Ibrahim

tags: enough, get-tired, inspirational, motivational, significance, significant, status-quo, truth

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#19

“I am not a Sunday morning inside four walls
with clean blood
and organized drawers.
I am the hurricane setting fire to the forests
at night when no one else is alive
or awake
however you choose to see it
and I live in my own flames
sometimes burning too bright and too wild
to make things last
or handle
myself or anyone else
and so I run.
run run run
far and wide
until my bones ache and lungs split
and it feels good.
Hear that people? It feels good
because I am the slave and ruler of my own body
and I wish to do with it exactly as I please”
― Charlotte Eriksson, You're Doing Just Fine

tags: ache, alive, alone, awake, blood, body, bright, burn, fire

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#20

“It’s too bad if a heart lacks fire,
and is deprived of the light
of a heart ablaze.
The day on which you are
without passionate love
is the most wasted day of your life.”
― Omar Khayyam

tags: fire, life, love, passion

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#21

“I often find that people confuse inner peace with some sense of insensibility whenever something goes wrong. In such cases inner peace is a permit for destruction: The unyielding optimist will pretend that the forest is not burning either because he is too lazy or too afraid to go and put the fire out.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: action, afraid, burning, confusion, destruction, fear, fire, forest, inner-peace, insensibility, laziness, peace, pretend, self-deception

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#22

“Remind me that the most fertile lands were built by the fires of volcanoes.”
― Andrea Gibson, The Madness Vase

tags: fertile, fertility, fire, land, nature, volcano

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#23

“I desire to be with you. I miss you. I feel lonely when I can't see you. I am obsessed with you, fascinated by you, infatuated with you. I hunger for your taste, your smell, the feel of your soul touching mine.”
― Jack Llawayllynn, Indulgence

tags: desire, gay, love, m-m, male-male, obsession

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#24

“I would rather a romantic relationship turn into contempt than turn into apathy. The passion in the extremities make it appear as though it once meant something. We grow from hot or cold, but lukewarm is the biggest insult.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: apathy, breakup, caring, contempt, desire, extreme, hate, hot, love, lukewarm, passion, relationships, romance, scorn, uncaring

435 likes

#25

“I spin worlds where we could be together. I dream you. For me, imagination and desire are very close.”
― Jeanette Winterson

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#26

“You can have anything you want if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: accomplish, desire, determination, purpose

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#27

“He would reach for me in the middle of the night, nearly every single night, wrapping one of those solid arms around my waist and pulling me in close. So. Close.”
― Chelsie Shakespeare, The Pull

tags: death, desire, dreams, love, meant-to-be, past-lives, reincarnation, romance-sexy, shakespeare, soulmates, story, vintage, young-adult

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#28

“Rushing into action, you fail.
Trying to grasp things, you lose them.
Forcing a project to completion,
you ruin what was almost ripe.

Therefore the Master takes action
by letting things take their course.
He remains as calm at the end
as at the beginning.
He has nothing,
thus has nothing to lose.
What he desires is non-desire;
what he learns is to unlearn.
He simply reminds people
of who they have always been.
He cares about nothing but the Tao.
Thus he can care for all things.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

tags: action, calm, care, completion, desire, fail, forcing, grasp, learn, lose, ripe, ruin, tao

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#29

“Now, I'm not going to deny that I was aware of your beauty. But the point is, this has nothing to do with your beauty. As I got to know you, I began to realise that beauty was the least of your qualities. I became fascinated by your goodness. I was drawn in by it. I didn't understand what was happening to me. And it was only when I began to feel actual, physical pain every time you left the room that it finally dawned on me: I was in love, for the first time in my life. I knew it was hopeless, but that didn't matter to me. And it's not that I want to have you. All I want is to deserve you. Tell me what to do. Show me how to behave. I'll do anything you say.”
― Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Les Liaisons dangereuses

tags: desire, in-love, love

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#30

“All I ever wanted from you was to know that I was wanted by you. That would have changed everything.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

tags: desire, fate, need, richelle, richelle-goodrich, want, wanting

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