Heartwrenching Quotes

“I will wait by the gate until I see your face. I have waited a decade, haven't I, in this limited life? Waiting in the endless one would be no sacrifice. And Inshallah one day, I know I will see you approaching. You will look just as you did at twenty, that year you first left us, and I will also be as I was in my youth. We will look like brothers on that day. We will walk together, as equals.”
― Fatima Farheen Mirza, A Place for Us

“All the birds who were never born, all the songs that were never sung and so can only exist in the imagination.

And this one is Teddy's.”
― Kate Atkinson, A God in Ruins

“And you, Hermione - you have the whole world at your feet.
This life is yours for the taking. Find what you want and take it for the both of us.
I’ll be rooting for you.
Draco”
― Onyx_and_Elm, Breath Mints / Battle Scars

“I know you’re strong and so resilient it’s fucking unbelievable, but you don’t have to always be strong with me. It’s okay to not be okay when you’re with me,”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, The ​Crown of Gilded Bones

“We stayed up all night talking about what we wanted to do ten years from now, waiting to see that burning red glow curve along a dark sky, oblivious to the significance of seeing another day. And oblivious to a future when one of us would be gone.”
― Dustin Thao, You've Reached Sam

“By the time we're twenty, Hasina used to say, Giti and I, we'll have pushed out four, five kids each. But you, Laila, you'll make us two dummies proud. You're going to be somebody. I know one day I'll pick up a newspaper and find your picture on the front page.”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

“The first one is always the hardest.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess

“You gave me your immortal kiss.”
― Anne Rice, Ashes to Ashes

“Everything that made Daisy burn, made me burn. Everything I loved about the world, Daisy loved about the world. Everything I struggled with, Dasiy [did]. We were two halves. We were the same. In that way you're only the same with a few other people. In that way that you don't even feel like you have to say your own thoughts because you know the other person is laready thinking them. How could I be around Daisy Jones and not be mesmerized by her? Not fall in love with her?”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

“I turned to Daisy and I didn't have any words [...] It just became so perfectly clear to me that I had been holding on tightly to the possibility. The possibility of Daisy. And suddenly, I was having a very hard time with the idea of letting that go. Of saying 'never.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

“Mammy was soon asleep, leaving Laila with dueling emotions: reassured that Mammy meant to live on, stung that she was not the reason. She would never leave her mark on Mammy's heart the way her brothers had, because Mammy's heart was like a pallid beach where Laila's footprints would forever wash away beneath the waves of sorrow that swelled and crashed, swelled and crashed.”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

“Unlike those who have survived a concentration camp, Shin had not been torn away from a civilized existence and forced to descend into hell. He was born and raised there. He accepted its values. He called it home.”
― Blaine Harden, Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West

“But for the first time, she felt like she had to vanquish her mental illness not for herself but for someone else. Because she was broken with him, and if she fixed herself, maybe she could make him a little less broken, too.”
― Pam Godwin, Vanquish

“They sit together peering out over the Pacific Ocean watching the honey colours of the sunrise. Amelia is grateful for the life she has now. William is her husband and they live in paradise.”
― Maria P. Frino, The Decision They Made

“Abriella, every star in that sky shines for you.'
It's not until the door swings closed behind him that I realize he called me by my given name.”
― Lexi Ryan, These Hollow Vows