Breakup Quotes - Page 12

• Families break up when they get hints you don't intend and miss hints that you do.

  Robert Frost

  Family, Break Up, Missing

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• Uh-uh, dude. I tried it your way with the dating and the girls and the kissing and the drama, and man, I didn't like it. Plus, my best friend is a walking cautionary tale of what happens to you when romantic relationships don't involve marriage. Like you always say, kafir, everything ends in breakup, divorce, or death. I want to narrow my misery options to divorce or death - that's all.

  John Green

  Girl, Drama, Divorce

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.174, Penguin

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• Sadness flies on the wings of the morning, and out of the heart of darkness comes the light.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Happiness, Broken Heart, Heartbreak

  Jean Giraudoux (1974). “The Madwoman of Chaillot: Comedy in Two Acts”, p.65, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• If you have ever, sir, been through a breakup of a romantic relationship that involved great love, you will perhaps understand what I experienced. There is in such situations usually a moment of passion during which the unthinkable is said; this is followed by a sense of euphoria at finally being liberated; the world seems fresh as if seen for the first time then comes the inevitable period of doubt, the desperate and doomed backpedaling of regret; and only later, once emotions have receded, is one able to view with equanimity the journey through which one has passed.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Regret, Love You, Passion

  Mohsin Hamid (2007). “The Reluctant Fundamentalist”, p.158, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety. And at such a moment, unable to see and not daring to imagine what the future will now bring forth, one clings to what one knew, or dreamed that one possessed. Yet, it is only when a man is able, without bitterness or self-pity, to surrender a dream he has long cherished or a privilege he has long possessed that he is set free - he has set himself free - for higher dreams, for greater privileges.

  James A. Baldwin

  Dream, Real, Loss

  "Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son". Book by James A. Baldwin, 1961.

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• Breakups hurt like a motherf*#ker, but they are not the end of the world. The pain is temporary, and if handled properly, they can even be life-changing.

  Greg Behrendt

  Hurt, Pain, Life Changing

  Greg Behrendt, Amiira Ruotola-Behrendt (2009). “It’s Called a Breakup Because It’s Broken: The Smart Girl’s Breakup Buddy”, p.3, HarperCollins UK

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• The time it takes to feel better about a breakup is directly proportional to the time it takes to feel better about yourself.

  Greg Behrendt

  Feel Better, About Yourself, Feels

  Greg Behrendt, Amiira Ruotola-Behrendt (2005). “It's Called a Breakup Because It's Broken: The Smart Girl's Break-Up Buddy”, p.33, Harmony

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• You know you've checked into Heartbreak Hotel for real when you feel less desirable than uncooked fish.

  Plum Sykes

  Break Up, Real, Hotel

  Plum Sykes (2007). “Bergdorf Blondes: A Novel”, Miramax Books

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• And even though he felt pitiful and ridiculous, he didn't want it to end, because he knew the absence of her would hurt more than any breakup ever could.

  John Green

  Hurt, Want, Ridiculous

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.44, Penguin

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• I don't deserve you." "You're not allowed to say that." "Why not?" "It's a breakup line. Unless you're breaking up-" Jason leaned over and kissed her. The colors of the Roman afternoon suddenly seemed sharper, as it the world had switched to high definition. "No breakups," he promised. "I may have busted my head a few times, but I'm not that stupid.

  Rick Riordan

  Stupid, Color, Deserve You

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• How many times have you said, 'This is it. I've finally found my one true love'? And how many times has the reality turned out differently? Paperback romances and fairy tales promote an ideal of a first and only love, but few of us can claim to have had such uncomplicated good fortune. For most people, the process of finding the perfect partner is one trial and error: breakups, makeups, missed opportunities and misunderstandings. Human love is a fragile creation, and sometimes the smallest thing - the wrong choice of words or a single clumsy gesture - can make love shatter, stall or fade away.

  Haruki Murakami

  Reality, Love Is, Makeup

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• Just because a relationship ends, it doesn't mean it's not worth having.

  Sarah Mlynowski

  Break Up, Mean, Relationships Ending

  Sarah Mlynowski (2010). “Gimme a Call”, p.291, Delacorte Press

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• You eventually erase her contact info from your phone but not the pictures you took of her in bed while she was naked and asleep, never those.

  Junot Diaz

  Sad, Phones, Bed

  Junot Diaz (2012). “This Is How You Lose Her”, p.112, Faber & Faber

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• Face it. There's not going to be a happy ending... at least not with this hero. So don't go mooning around thinking that your breakup is only the crisis before the big romantic scene, because I'm here to tell you that it's not. When you are dumped, you are dumped, and the guy isn't going to change his mind and realize that suddenly he loves you instead of that girl he's flirting with in lunchroom, now that he's free.

  E. Lockhart

  Girl, Love You, Hero

  E. Lockhart (2016). “Ruby Oliver 1: The Boyfriend List”, p.49, Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.

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• It was such a weird thing how a breakup stretched much wider than you expected. You didn't just lose a person, but their entire world as well.

  Sarah Dessen

  World, Weird Things, Wells

  Sarah Dessen (2013). “The Moon and More”, p.152, Penguin

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• Oh, are we at the insult part of the breakup?" she says. "Because I got in a lot of practice after what happened with Will. I have several choice things to say about her nose.

  Veronica Roth

  Practice, Choices, Noses

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• I tried to keep us together, you were busy keeping secrets

  Drake

  Break Up, Keeping Secrets, Together

  Song: Karaoke, Album: Thank Me Later, 2010

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• My ex send late night text cause she don't know to let go

  Drake

  Break Up, Letting Go, Night

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• I want to tell you that I love you I want to tell you that I love you I want to tell you that I love I love I love I love but you do not.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Love You, Want

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• The old line 'You deserve someone better than me' in this case was not just an old line. She deserved someone who would love her and take care of her and he knew he never would.

  Norris Church Mailer

  Care, Lines, Cases

  Norris Church Mailer (2007). “Cheap Diamonds: A Novel”, p.64, Random House

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• The difference between love and logic is that in the eyes of a lover, a toad can be a prince, whereas in the analysis of a logistician, the lover would have to prove that the toad was a prince, an enterprise destined to dull the shine of many a passion.

  Tom Robbins

  Passion, Eye, Differences

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.161, Bantam

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• We can't continue to be like this. Who am I? Your fiancée or your concubine?

  Ha Jin

  Concubines

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• I think, don't you, that a girl with any delicacy of feeling couldn't bring herself to marry a man indirectly responsible for her father's death. No matter how much she was in love with him.

  Wallace Stegner

  Girl, Father, Men

  Wallace Stegner (2000). “Angle of Repose”, p.319, Penguin

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• None of us suffers as much as we should, or loves as much as we say. Love is the first lie; wisdom the last.

  Djuna Barnes

  Lying, Love Is, Suffering

  Djuna Barnes, Thomas Stearns Eliot (2006). “Nightwood”, p.147, New Directions Publishing

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• You can allow yourself 72 hours of wallowing time. Then you've got to get into the gym, stop eating the ice cream and move on.

  Jennifer Love Hewitt

  Moving, Ice Cream, Eating

  "Jennifer Love Hewitt: “There Is Somebody Great Out There for Me”, www.usmagazine.com. March 23, 2010.

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