“Your heart has to break because love does not work with you but what you feel”

“You can smile when your heart is breaking because you're a woman.”

“You cannot die of grief, though it feels as if you can. A heart does not actually break, though sometimes your chest aches as if it is breaking. Grief dims with time. It is the way of things. There comes a day when you smile again, and you feel like a traitor. How dare I feel happy. How dare I be glad in a world where my father is no more. And then you cry fresh tears, because you do not miss him as much as you once did, and giving up your grief is another kind of death.”

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

“When you break someone's heart,
you also break yours.”

“But only love can break your heart
Try to be sure right from the start
Yes only love can break your heart
What if your world should fall apart?”

“Sometimes you break your heart in the right way, if you know what I mean.”

“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.”

“It’s not the parting or the absence that’s sad. You love them, and that’s why saying good-bye breaks your heart.”

“In the months that follow you bend to the work, because it feels like hope, like grace--and because you know in your lying cheater's heart that sometimes a start is all we ever get.”