I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they’re right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.

The biggest coward of a man is to awaken the love of a woman without the intention of loving her.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

Cry me a river, build a bridge, and get over it.

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Don’t settle for a relationship that won’t let you be yourself.

In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.

Everybody has bad relationships and, at the end of the day, they are just a great way to set yourself up for a good relationship.

No matter how bad your heart is broken, the world doesn’t stop for your grief.

The best way to mend a broken heart is time and girlfriends.

Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.

Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.

I think the thing that I have learned is that a bad love experience is no reason to fear a new love experience, but you have to be very honest at every single stage with the person about how you’ve been hurt, and hopefully they will be supportive about whatever it is that you have to go through. Everybody has bad relationships and, at the end of the day, they are just a great way to set yourself up for a good relationship.

Did I really want to stay on this road longer, knowing it was only going to end in devastation?

Never love that which you cannot keep.

I won’t ever leave you, even though you’re always leaving me.

Yet leave me not; yet, if thou wilt, be free; love me no more, but love my love of thee.

Wicked me obey from fear; good men,from love.

When one door closes another door opens. Usually a refrigerator.

Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.

So this was betrayal. It was like being left alone in the desert at dusk without water or warmth. It left your mouth dry and will broken. It sapped your tears and made you hollow.

A bad love experience is no reason to fear a new love experience.

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship – never.

Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.

The highest, most decisive experience is to be alone with one’s own self. You must be alone to find out what supports you, when you find that you can not support yourself. Only this experience can give you an indestructible foundation.

Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! – I have as much soul as you, – and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you!

There’s no use in weeping, Though we are condemned to part: There’s such a thing as keeping, A remembrance in one’s heart.

How many young men, in all previous times of unprecedented steadiness, had turned suddenly wild and wicked for the same reason, and, in an ecstasy of unrequited love, taken to wrench off door-knockers, and invert the boxes of rheumatic watchmen!

If it hurts, it isn’t love.

I’m not supposed to miss you, I’m not supposed to care

If what he said was the truth, it broke her heart. If what he said was a lie, it was broken anyway.

Saying his name stabbed my heart, like someone had ripped through my carefully stitched up world and exposed the infected, pulsing red tissue that I thought was healing.