“He broke my heart. You merely broke my life.”

“My heart broke open and history fell in.”

“My heart is broke, but I have some glue, help me inhale and mend it with you.”

“It broke my heart into more pieces than my heart was made of, why can't people say what they mean at the time?”

“You lit into me last night. You said what I did was stupid.
- That's what my head said. But my heart… My stupid heart… Her voice broke. It was singing.”

“I have to say that although it broke my heart, I was, and still am, glad I was there.”

“So my heart finally broke. It was so long bent.
And it broke in three places when it finally went.
It wanted only to say what it meant.
So it suffered every punishment.”

“Once, when I was young and true.
Someone left me sad -
Broke my brittle heart in two;
And that is very bad.

Love is for unlucky folk,
Love is but a curse.
Once there was a heart I broke;
And that, I think, is worse.”

“… nothing broke my heart like the slow death of a shared joke that had once seemed genuinely funny.”

“It was the first time I'd ever said the words to another person, and the sound of them broke open my heart.”