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2de62a1 I was suffering the easily foreseeable consequences. Addiction is the hallmark of every infatuation-based love story. It all begins when the object of your adoration bestows upon you a heady, hallucinogenic dose of something you never dared to admit you wanted-an emotional speedball, perhaps, of thunderous love and roiling excitement. Soon you start craving that intense attention, with a hungry obsession of any junkie. When the drug is witheld, you promptly turn sick, crazy, and depleted (not to mention resentful of the dealer who encouraged this addiction in the first place but now refuses to pony up the good stuff anymore-- despite the fact that you know he has it hidden somewhere, goddamn it, because he used to give it to you for free). Next stage finds you skinny and shaking in a corner, certain only that you would sell your soul or rob your neighbors just to have 'that thing' even one more time. Meanwhile, the object of your adoration has now become repulsed by you. He looks at you like you're someone he's never met before, much less someone he once loved with high passion. The irony is,you can hardly blame him. I mean, check yourself out. You're a pathetic mess,unrecognizable even to your own eyes. So that's it. You have now reached infatuation's final destination-- the complete and merciless devaluation of self." - pg 20-21 relationships inspirational heartache Elizabeth Gilbert
289dc7a To be rejected by someone doesn't mean you should also reject yourself or that you should think of yourself as a lesser person. It doesn't mean that nobody will ever love you anymore. Remember that only ONE person has rejected you at the moment, and it only hurt so much because to you, that person's opinion symbolized the opinion of the whole world, of God. romance faith heartbreak life-lessons hope life love inspirational hurt-feelings hurting-heart breakup broken-hearted-quotes heartbroken broken-heart broken broken-hearted healing heartache hurt dating hurting Jocelyn Soriano
8c09d2c Yes, I understand why things had to happen this way. I understand his reason for causing me pain. But mere understanding does not chase away the hurt. It does not call upon the sun when dark clouds have loomed over me. Let the rain come then if it must come! And let it wash away the dust that hurt my eyes! romance faith heartbreak life-lessons hope life love inspirational hurt-feelings hurting-heart breakup broken-hearted-quotes heartbroken broken-heart broken broken-hearted healing heartache hurt dating hurting Jocelyn Soriano
f7c6244 It is our wounds that create in us a desire to reach for miracles. The fulfillment of such miracles depends on whether we let our wounds pull us down or lift us up towards our dreams. romance faith heartbreak life-lessons hope life love inspirational hurt-feelings hurting-heart breakup broken-hearted-quotes heartbroken broken-heart broken broken-hearted healing heartache hurt dating hurting Jocelyn Soriano
48a0add Doctoring her seemed to her as absurd as putting together the pieces of a broken vase. Her heart was broken. Why would they try to cure her with pills and powders? heartbreak heart pills broken-heart heartache Leo Tolstoy
b1af5b4 I know I'm not going to be in your head all the time. But once you know me, I'll be forever in your heart. be-yourself sex word-junkies feelings relationships beauty heartbreak life-lessons heart life love truth inspirational realist best heartache infatuation sentimental head mistakes lust Crystal Woods
13490ef She knew that was not an honest prayer, and she did not linger over it. The right prayer would have been, Lord . . . I am miserable and bitter at heart, and old fears are rising up in me so that everything I do makes everything worse. prayer sorrow heartache Marilynne Robinson
15a5aa8 Sometimes I think of you and I feel giddy. Memory makes me lightheaded, drunk on champagne. All the things we did. And if anyone has said this was the price I would have agreed to pay it. That surprises me; that with the hurt and the mess comes a shift of recognition. It was worth it. Love is worth it. worth pain love heartache hurt memory Jeanette Winterson
2469dc5 Don't be with him, don't want him, don't go with him. Be with me. Want me. Stay with me. I don't know how to be without you. pain love jace-wayland heartache Cassandra Clare
ca56ed5 Ah, hell. His peripheral vision was working far too well tonight. His slut of a cousin, his cocksucking, suit-wearing, Montblanc-up-the-ass cousin Saxton the Magnificent, was standing next to the queen, looking like a combination of Cary Grant and some model in a goddamn cologne ad. Not that Qhuinn was bitter. Because the guy was sharing Blay's bed. Nah. Nope. Not at all. The Cocksucker- With a wince, he thought maybe he should switch that insult to something a little farther away from what the two of them ... God, he couldn't even go there. Not if he wanted to breathe. quinn heartache J.R. Ward
c7ee0a5 "It's not the loving that hurts this girl; it's the understanding of it for what it is, that it will never be returned in the same way, that threatens to destroy her. But to unload the words - "I love you" - on an innocent party who didn't ask for it, to reach across the dark space and touch him - it's like the world she knows could end if she dared speak these words, dared make such a move." friendship heartbreak love heartache unrequited-love Rachel Cohn
3dead5b "I can hear our hearts breaking." A tear wets my fingertips, his tears, and his other hand encases my face, the way mine does him. His lips nearly skim mine. "I'll shield your ears from the sound of heartbreak." love rose-calloway heartache Krista Ritchie
d85bf4a But as the years passed, he missed her more, not less, and his need for her became a cut that would not scar over, would not stop leaking. grief loss sadness love lonesome missing-her mournography no-going-back love-lost heartache missing-someone miss Dennis Lehane
bce4903 You must stay away from the one who brings nothing but heartache and death. Do you hear me? He brings nothing but death. Always has. men warning love heartache Jennifer L. Armentrout
84ef879 There are the girls we love, the men we look up to, the tenderness, the friendships, the opportunities, the pleasures! But the fact remains that you must touch your reward with clean hands, lest it turn to dead leaves, to thorns, in your grasp. grief futility depression hope dark-history falling-short haunted-past smoke-in-the-eyes why-the-world-needs-jesus unrest pointlessness bittersweet-memories sins heartache vanity disappointment expectations despair regrets nostalgia Joseph Conrad
0b1a936 Sorry. Don't need sorry. Not in this house. Sorry laid the hearth here. Sorry ways and sorry people and heavensent grief and heartache to make you pine for your death. tragedy grief sorry heartache Cormac McCarthy
d0014cf When I no longer have your heart I will not request your body your presence or even your polite conversation. I will go away to a far country separated from you by the sea -- on which I cannot walk -- and refrain even from sending letters describing my pain. poems relationships poetry heartbreak heartache Alice Walker
e9d3aa9 She had said he had been driven away from her by a dream... dream love heart-burn indigestion breaking-up bitter breakups breakup heart-break heartache dreaming sad longing Joseph Conrad
382a54d I had heard the wind from the mountains calling me last night, telling me it was my time to go, and I woke up, knowing what to do. loss hearbreak heartache incest V.C. Andrews
4f25079 The cracks in your heart are there so the light can shine through. light heart love heartache Elizabeth Noble
1c3e4d9 Thus ended the first and adventurous part of his existence. What followed was so different that, but for the reality of sorrow which remained with him, this strange part must have resembled a dream. pain grief past change-of-scene changes-in-life loss-of-love grit rebirth heartache new old life-after-death Joseph Conrad
9782f27 Once I was in the cold dim room, without furniture or carpet or rugs, only a dollhouse that wasn't as wonderful as the original, I opened the tall and narrow closet door and began my ascent up the steep and narrow stairs. On my way to the attic. On my way to where I'd find my Christopher, again... loss heartbreak heartache incest V.C. Andrews
ad3317c "And because you not always can keep your eyes shut there comes the real trouble--the heart pain--the world pain. I tell you, my friend, it is not good for you to find you cannot make your dream come true, for the reason that you not strong enough are, or not clever enough. . . . Ja! . . . And all the time you are such a fine fellow too! Wie? Was? Gott im Himmel! How can that be? Ha! ha! ha!" 'The shadow prowling amongst the graves of butterflies laughed boisterously." broken-dreams broken-spirit heart-pain lost-souls heartache Joseph Conrad
bad00ff The sun, the hero of every day, the impersonal old man that beams as brightly on death as on birth, came up every morning and raced across the blue dome and dipped into the sea of fire every evening. death heartbreak renewal heartache sun hero Zora Neale Hurston
866428f Love doesn't leave you. Not all at once. It creeps back in, making you think it can be another way, that it can still be another way, and you have to remind yourself of the reasons that it probably won't be. heartbreak love divorce heartache Laura Dave
81b645c We recognize that you've used substances to try to regain your lost balance, to try to feel the way you did before the need arose to use addictive drugs or alcohol. We know that you use substances to alter your mood, to cover up your sadness, to ease your heartbreak, to lighten your stress load, to blur your painful memories, to escape your hurtful reality, or to make your unbearable days or nights bearable. pain live memories sadness heartbreak life holistic-rehab holistic-treatment-center holistic-therapy holistic-treatment holistic-health dependency non-12-step passages-ventura pax-prentiss substance-abuse passages-malibu addiction-cure addiction-treatment-center alcohol-abuse chris-prentiss drug-abuse heartache survival Chris Prentiss
6086dc3 The world was simply too cruel; how could I survive? pain world hoplessness heartache Arthur Golden
25c1661 Teddy wondered, and not for the first time, not by a long shot, if this was the day that missing her would finally be too much for him. mourning loss depression death darkness suicidal-ideation alcohol heartache lonely sad Dennis Lehane
982ddf2 One that society can't forgive, but I can. kindness compassion friendship life love truth forgivable unforgiven confess healing grace heartache surrender Dennis Lehane
8d58310 Only I had dry eyes, a dry heart. loss love heartache incest V.C. Andrews
2b5eb29 He needs a looser association. He needs something that implies a man who wants the ice shard to remain in his chest, who's learned to love the sensation of being pierced. mourning pain loss suffering sorrow love heartache Michael Cunningham
67cf1b2 A week later, I walked to Gwyneth's house. She and Dorothy and I shared tea and we wept for Jacob. We talked. We smiled a little. Then I left and waited for Cullah, and thought what a great emptiness was left by Jacob's passing. At last, I sat at the front door, on the chair where Patience had died. I held my hands folded at my heart, and ached for all who had passed from my world mourning grief heartache Nancy E. Turner
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