Breakup Quotes - Page 13

• I want to tell you that I love you I want to tell you that I love you I want to tell you that I love I love I love I love but you do not.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Love You, Want

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• The old line 'You deserve someone better than me' in this case was not just an old line. She deserved someone who would love her and take care of her and he knew he never would.

  Norris Church Mailer

  Care, Lines, Cases

  Norris Church Mailer (2007). “Cheap Diamonds: A Novel”, p.64, Random House

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• The difference between love and logic is that in the eyes of a lover, a toad can be a prince, whereas in the analysis of a logistician, the lover would have to prove that the toad was a prince, an enterprise destined to dull the shine of many a passion.

  Tom Robbins

  Passion, Eye, Differences

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.161, Bantam

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• I think, don't you, that a girl with any delicacy of feeling couldn't bring herself to marry a man indirectly responsible for her father's death. No matter how much she was in love with him.

  Wallace Stegner

  Girl, Father, Men

  Wallace Stegner (2000). “Angle of Repose”, p.319, Penguin

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• None of us suffers as much as we should, or loves as much as we say. Love is the first lie; wisdom the last.

  Djuna Barnes

  Lying, Love Is, Suffering

  Djuna Barnes, Thomas Stearns Eliot (2006). “Nightwood”, p.147, New Directions Publishing

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• You can allow yourself 72 hours of wallowing time. Then you've got to get into the gym, stop eating the ice cream and move on.

  Jennifer Love Hewitt

  Moving, Ice Cream, Eating

  "Jennifer Love Hewitt: “There Is Somebody Great Out There for Me”, www.usmagazine.com. March 23, 2010.

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• I deserve to be happy and I think a lot of people stay in relationships for wrong reasons and instead of just looking at each other and just saying, 'you know, it's like sands of the hourglass, we learned our lessons, we can end in war or we can end in peace.'

  Jenny McCarthy

  War, Thinking, People

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• I've seen it all before. Now that it's over I shoulda known better than to think this was real and you could be mine.

  Drake

  Relationship, Romantic, Break Up

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• Face it. There's not going to be a happy ending... at least not with this hero. So don't go mooning around thinking that your breakup is only the crisis before the big romantic scene, because I'm here to tell you that it's not. When you are dumped, you are dumped, and the guy isn't going to change his mind and realize that suddenly he loves you instead of that girl he's flirting with in lunchroom, now that he's free.

  E. Lockhart

  Girl, Love You, Hero

  E. Lockhart (2016). “Ruby Oliver 1: The Boyfriend List”, p.49, Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.

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• You eventually erase her contact info from your phone but not the pictures you took of her in bed while she was naked and asleep, never those.

  Junot Diaz

  Sad, Phones, Bed

  Junot Diaz (2012). “This Is How You Lose Her”, p.112, Faber & Faber

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• Families break up when they get hints you don't intend and miss hints that you do.

  Robert Frost

  Family, Break Up, Missing

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• If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Love, Two, People

  Ernest Hemingway (2002). “Death in the Afternoon”, p.100, Simon and Schuster

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• That's the brutality of a breakup, isn't it? The people leaving think they did everything possible, the people left behind think what is possible hasn't even been tested yet.

  Laura Dave

  Thinking, People, Leaving

  Laura Dave (2011). “The First Husband: A Novel”, p.92, Penguin

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• I consider my relationship with acting in Hollywood as sort of a mutual breakup. Through puberty, Hollywood didn't really want me anymore, and I was like, 'Yeah, I don't really want you, either.'

  Mara Wilson

  Acting, Hollywood, Want

  "She's his G--damn kid too: Mara Wilson on 'Mrs. Doubtfire' 20th Anniversary" by Kase Wickman, www.mtv.com. November 21, 2013.

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• It amazes me how easy it is for things to change, how easy it is to start off down the same road you always take and wind up somewhere new. Just one false step, one pause, one detour, and you end up with new friends or a bad reputation or a boyfriend or a breakup. It's never occurred to me before; I've never been able to see it. And it makes me feel, weirdly, like maybe all of these different possibilities exist at the same time, like each moment we live has a thousand other moments layered underneath it that look different.

  Lauren Oliver

  Change, Wind, Different

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• Failed relationships can be described as so much wasted make-up.

  Marian Keyes

  Relationship, Broken Heart, Not Giving Up

  Marian Keyes (1995). “Watermelon”, Dufour Editions

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• We do express our emotions, our reactions to events, breakups and infatuations, but the way we do that - the art of it - is in putting them into prescribed forms or squeezing them into new forms that perfectly fit some emerging context. That’s part of the creative process, and we do it instinctively; we internalize it, like birds do. And it’s a joy to sing, like the birds do.

  David Byrne

  Art, Creative, Bird

  David Byrne (2012). “How Music Works”, p.35, Canongate Books

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• I think you still love me, but we can’t escape the fact that I’m not enough for you. I knew this was going to happen. So I’m not blaming you for falling in love with another woman. I’m not angry, either. I should be, but I’m not. I just feel pain. A lot of pain. I thought I could imagine how much this would hurt, but I was wrong.

  Haruki Murakami

  Love, Hurt, Pain

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• Uh-uh, dude. I tried it your way with the dating and the girls and the kissing and the drama, and man, I didn't like it. Plus, my best friend is a walking cautionary tale of what happens to you when romantic relationships don't involve marriage. Like you always say, kafir, everything ends in breakup, divorce, or death. I want to narrow my misery options to divorce or death - that's all.

  John Green

  Girl, Drama, Divorce

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.174, Penguin

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• Sadness flies on the wings of the morning, and out of the heart of darkness comes the light.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Happiness, Broken Heart, Heartbreak

  Jean Giraudoux (1974). “The Madwoman of Chaillot: Comedy in Two Acts”, p.65, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• If you have ever, sir, been through a breakup of a romantic relationship that involved great love, you will perhaps understand what I experienced. There is in such situations usually a moment of passion during which the unthinkable is said; this is followed by a sense of euphoria at finally being liberated; the world seems fresh as if seen for the first time then comes the inevitable period of doubt, the desperate and doomed backpedaling of regret; and only later, once emotions have receded, is one able to view with equanimity the journey through which one has passed.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Regret, Love You, Passion

  Mohsin Hamid (2007). “The Reluctant Fundamentalist”, p.158, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Just because a relationship ends, it doesn't mean it's not worth having.

  Sarah Mlynowski

  Break Up, Mean, Relationships Ending

  Sarah Mlynowski (2010). “Gimme a Call”, p.291, Delacorte Press

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• How many times have you said, 'This is it. I've finally found my one true love'? And how many times has the reality turned out differently? Paperback romances and fairy tales promote an ideal of a first and only love, but few of us can claim to have had such uncomplicated good fortune. For most people, the process of finding the perfect partner is one trial and error: breakups, makeups, missed opportunities and misunderstandings. Human love is a fragile creation, and sometimes the smallest thing - the wrong choice of words or a single clumsy gesture - can make love shatter, stall or fade away.

  Haruki Murakami

  Reality, Love Is, Makeup

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• I don't deserve you." "You're not allowed to say that." "Why not?" "It's a breakup line. Unless you're breaking up-" Jason leaned over and kissed her. The colors of the Roman afternoon suddenly seemed sharper, as it the world had switched to high definition. "No breakups," he promised. "I may have busted my head a few times, but I'm not that stupid.

  Rick Riordan

  Stupid, Color, Deserve You

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• And even though he felt pitiful and ridiculous, he didn't want it to end, because he knew the absence of her would hurt more than any breakup ever could.

  John Green

  Hurt, Want, Ridiculous

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.44, Penguin

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