Sad Love 64...

Through my tears, I could hear her saying it was all going to be okay, and I know she believed this. But I was sure of something, too: it's a lot easier to be lost than found. It's the reason we're always searching, and rarely discovered-- so many locks, not enough keys. -Sarah Dessen, Lock and Key

No love is bigger than the one which is given away - torn apart - and yet still, it remains.

I might be stumbling a little on my way out, but i'm walking away... I'm moving on.

You've always been this possibility for me. This wonderful possibility, but it's just not right. And I'm so sorry. I need you to know that you're the man I want to want. -Gilmore Girls

I know exactly how that is. To love somebody who doesn't deserve it. Because they are all you have. Because any attention is better than no attention. -Augusten Burroughs, Running with Scissors

It's no good. When someone leaves you, apart from missing them, apart from the fact that the whole little world you've created together collapses, and that everything you see or do reminds you of them -Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones Diary

Because you can never go from going out to being friends, just like that. It's a lie. It's just something that people say they'll do to take the permanence out of a breakup. And someone always takes it to mean more than it does, and then is hurt even more when, inevitably, said ‘friendly' relationship is still a major step down from the previous relationship, and it's like breaking up all over again. But messier.–Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby

You gradually get over the pain. It doesn't go away, not for a long time, but it becomes easier to live with. One morning you wake up and he's not the first thing on your mind. And then a few months down the line you realize you've made it through half the day without thinking of him. Sometimes it takes months, sometimes, years, but eventually you reach a point when you only think about them occassionally. You manage to do this because you don't see them, you don't hear about them, you try not to think about them. And then you bump into them walking down the street, or someone unexpected mentions their name . . . and the memories come flooding back. But memories also become less painful in time, and I can talk about Simon now without really feeling anything. But I'd rather now. If you know what I mean. -Jane Green, Straight Talking

Parting is a joint decision, a person could not leave you if you were not willing to release them.

I am lost without you. I am soulless, a drifter without a home, a solitary bird in a flight to nowhere. I am all these things and I am nothing at all. This, my darling, is my life without you. I long for you to show me how to live again. -Nicholas Sparks, Message in A Bottle

And it felt complicated in the way that all breakups feel complicated when you're embroiled in them. While in cruel actuality, most are really quite simple. And it goes something like this: one person falls out of love-- or simply realizes that he was never really in love in the first place, wishing he could take back those words, that promise from the heart. -Emily Giffin, Love the One You're With

Perhaps the most difficult choices to make are the ones that deny us what our heart wants most, because as it's been said, without reason and without prudence, the heart wants what the heart wants, and more often than not, it will not be denied.

You don't let people in. It's hard for you, and once you do , you don't want to let them go, and when they screw up, you're like, 'why did you do that to me?' I gave you my feelings. I did everything for you; and you screwed me over. - The Hills

I remember when we kissed, I still feel it on my lips. The time that you danced with me with no music playing. I remember the simple things, I remember till I cry. But the one thing I wish I'd forget, the memory I wanna forget, is goodbye. - Miley Cyrus

They say that when people first lose a limb, they can still feel it.  It still hurts, they still try to use it. They call it having a "Phantom Limb"  I think that this is what losing a person is like.  You beckon them over to "come see this!", you come home at the end of the day to tell them about how much you hate going to work, you pick up the phone to call them when you're happy, sad, mad, or somewhere in between.  Until you realize that they're not there.  And each time you realize it, it hurts just as bad as it did the first time, all over again.  Only an arm, I could lose.  It's the people I care about the most that I can't live without.

Leaving was easy. It was everything else that was so damn hard. -Sarah Dessen, Lock and Key

When someone you love disappears, it's like the light goes dim, and you're in the shadows. You try to do what people tell you: put one foot in front of the other; keep looking up; give yourself over to the seconds and minutes and hours. But always there's that glimmer of light-- that way of living you once knew-- sort of faded and smoky like the crescent moon on a winter's night when the air is full of ice and clouds, but still there, hanging just over your head. -Lee Martin, The Bright Forever

Was I ever truly over him? At one time I was sure that the answer was yes. But if seeing him again- and merely touching his hand- could peel back so many layers of my heart, then did I ever stop loving him the way you're supposed to stop loving everyone but the one you're with? -Emily Giffin, Love the One You're With

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