Quotes in category: “Love - Sad”:

Again, the English language fails to have a word to describe the depths of sadness, how a heart can feel heavy, how a stomach can drop to your feet, or how missing someone can cripple you. 

I laughed and said, “Life is easy.” What I meant was, Life is easy with you here, and when you leave, it will be hard again.

…she better liked to see him free and happy, even than to have him near her, because she loved him better than herself.

Maybe the deepest part of who we are is what scares us or breaks our hearts and we don’t want to share that with anyone and when we do, we don’t want to lose those people.

She had to protect herself from herself, from that little girl inside still looking for a happy ending.

I saw a whole other future. I can’t stop seeing it. I can’t leave. I can’t stay.

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

Life was too short to be with someone who wasn’t quite right, someone who made you think more than they made you feel. 

I will hold you so tightly and carefully when I see you again. Like crystal. Or an atom bomb. 

I wonder what you look like, under your t-shirt. I wonder what you sound like, when you’re not wearing words. I wonder what we have, when we’re not pretending. 

One day you fall for this boy. And he touches you with his fingers. And he burns holes in your skin with his mouth. And it hurts when you look at him. And it hurts when you don’t. And it feels like someone’s cut you open with a jagged piece of glass. 

And the less you give, the more i want so foolishly.

You keep telling me to be glad for what we had while we had it. That the brightest flame burns quickest. Which means you saw us as a candle. And I saw us as the sun.

You have a way of coming easily to me. And when you take, you take the very best of me.

Tom: Look, we don't have to put a label on it. That's fine. I get it. But, you know, I just... I need some consistency. 
Summer: I know. 
Tom: I need to know that you're not gonna wake up in the morning and feel differently. 
Summer: And I can't give you that. Nobody can. 

Hey, did you hear about the one that got away, they say he looked left,
she turned right-meant to be together but not that night,
it's when fates running late, we tend to make mistakes,
we go round and round from love to love
it's either way too much or not enough

And I'm sorry for all the times I forgot to imply something in between the lines. And I'm sorry if my heart breaking ruined your day. Oh well, sometimes it just has to be that way.

Tuth be known, truth be told, my heart was always fairly cold
posing to be as warm as yours - my way of getting in your world 

I laughed and said, “Life is easy.” What I meant was, Life is easy with you here, and when you leave, it will be hard again.

Summer: I woke up one morning and I just knew. 
Tom: Knew what? 
Summer: What I was never sure of with you. 

You can recall the creases caused by the smile on a loved one’s lips or the way the tears crept to your eyes. But pain is hard to put into words and in life there is always pain. It’s as natural as birth or death. Pain makes us who we are, it teaches us and tames us, it can destroy and it can save. When it happens, it takes our breath away.

There is a heartwrenching listless feeling that comes and you wander through the day, half of a person. I feel like every time I love someone I give them a part of myself and when things end, I hobble around for a while, missing limbs or an eye, a victim in the the long war we call love.

I kept your favorite t-shirt. You know, the one I used to hate. Ain't it funny how it's the one thing now, I just can't throw away.

Stop right there, that's exactly where I lost it.
see that line? well, I never should've crossed it.
stop right there, well I never should've said that.
it's the very moment that I wish
that I could take back.

It's hard when you know you shouldn't hold on, and yet you're too in love to let go.