“Someone can break your heart, leave you dead on the lawn, and still you never learn what to say to stop it all over again.”

“I knew better than to let you break my heart
The soul you'll never see again won't be showing scars
You still love her I can see it in your eyes
The truth is all that I can hear every time you lie.”

“I don’t know how else to teach you what you need to learn except by showing you your mistakes over and over again until you stop making them.”

“It is better to leave when When someone takes advantage of your straightforwardness. You should not go where your innocence is made fun of. It is better not to go there, where you are humiliated again and again, the person with whom all this happens, breaks up.”

“What do you do when you know you are breaking someone's heart, but to do anything else would break your own?”

“I tell you this
to break your heart,
by which I mean only
that it break open and never close again
to the rest of the world.”

“Edward knew what it was like to say over and over again the names of those you had left behind. He knew what it was like to miss someone. And so he listened. And in his listening, his heart opened wide and then wider still. (page 103)”

“Your heart literally hurts when it's breaking. You can feel it, every beat another ache, and nothing you can do will stop it, either from beating or breaking.”

“When you love someone, its never over. You move on, because you have to but you take them with you in your heart”

“Memoir is about handing over you life to someone and saying, This is what I went through, this is who I am, and maybe you can learn something from it.”