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Sometimes my heart hurts so much, I beat it with my fists. I try to run. But you cannot run from thi...

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Doctoring her seemed to her as absurd as putting together the pieces of a broken vase. Her heart was...

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I've never been in love. I will die without knowing what it feels like to need to see one person's f...

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It's over, her mind whispered. There's still hope, her heart insisted.

Only yesterday a young woman came to me wanting a trap set for a man with a sweet smile and lithe ar...

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I didn't know what to say. It kind of hurt just to look at her, in a way i'd forgotten. Sort of like...

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Maggie StiefvaterBallad: A Gathering of Faerie

She knew that was not an honest prayer, and she did not linger over it. The right prayer would have ...

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I answer the heroic question, 'Death, where is thy sting?' with 'It is in my heart and mind and memo...

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The knowledge that she could learn to love a man had always meant more to her than loving him effort...

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I know who you are. I love you. I love everything about you that hurts.

My heart is sair-I dare na tell,My heart is sair for Somebody.

More commonly suffering breaks people, crushes them, and is simply unilluminating. You see how grues...

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How much do we remember of what hurts us most? I've been thinking about pain, how each of us constru...

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Sherman AlexieThe Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

Wanting more is just a recipe for heartache.

How? How will it help to tell you that I see his face every time I close my eyes? That I wake up and...

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As much as I would really like to have saved myself heartache, embarrassment or gossip, I also know ...

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I look into my glass,And view my wasting skin,And say, 'Would God it came to passMy heart had shrunk...

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Thomas HardyChosen Poems of Thomas Hardy

He felt himself now, as he had often fancied other people, adrift on the stream, and far removed fro...

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he began to feel that she was very lonely indeed. “If he’d been here,” she said, “those cowards woul...

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The sun, the hero of every day, the impersonal old man that beams as brightly on death as on birth, ...

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When I no longer have your heartI will not request your bodyyour presenceor even your polite convers...

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Alice WalkerHer Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems 1965-1990 Complete

Unlike a variety of other relationships,friendship requires an acknowledgement by both parties that ...

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Therefore, have done with this nonsense: you have no ground for hope: dismiss, at once, these hurtfu...

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Adieu! but let me cherish, still, The hope with which I cannot part. Contempt may wound, and coldnes...

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Anne BrontëThe Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Don’t be with him, don’t want him, don’t go with him. Be with me. Want me. Stay with me.I don’t know...

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I was even a little glad that if it wasn’t going to be me she wanted, it was going to be someone who...

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You are part of my existence, part of myself. You have been in every line I have ever read since I f...

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Aye, though he loved her from his soul with such a self denying love as woman seldom wins; he spoke ...

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Even if times are tough and you're enduring a terrible heartache, it's important to focus your anger...

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Chelsea HandlerMy Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands

Sorry. Don't need sorry. Not in this house. Sorry laid the hearth here. Sorry ways and sorry people ...

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But as the years passed, he missed her more, not less, and his need for her became a cut that would ...

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One that society can't forgive, but I can.

Teddy wondered, and not for the first time, not by a long shot, if this was the day that missing her...

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I have been loved," she said, "by something strange, and it has forgotten me.

From childhood's hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not a...

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Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censerSwung by Seraphim whose footfall...

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I was suffering the easily foreseeable consequences. Addiction is the hallmark of every infatuation-...

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This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.

Because misery, and degradation, and death, and nothing that God or Satan could inflict would have p...

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One lost easiest what one held in one’s arms— never what one left.

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Erich Maria RemarqueArch of Triumph: A Novel of a Man Without a Country

my heart no longer beats but is a tugging muscle,

But I will not repine. It cannot last long. He will be forgot, and we shall all be as we were before...

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She felt the loss of Willoughby's character yet more heavily than she had felt the loss of his heart...

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Sadness flies away on the wings of time.

Sometimes I think of you and I feel giddy. Memory makes me lightheaded, drunk on champagne. All the ...

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I was in the mood to make out in the back row of the movie theater with someone who did not know my ...

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Raw love, like raw heart-ache, could blindside you.

The best way to prevent a heartache was to cushion the coming blow.

Raw love, like raw heartache, could blindside you.

Maybe you had to come close to losing something before you could remember its value.

There are the girls we love, the men we look up to, the tenderness, the friendships, the opportuniti...

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And because you not always can keep your eyes shut there comes the real trouble--the heart pain--the...

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Thus ended the first and adventurous part of his existence. What followed was so different that, but...

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She had said he had been driven away from her by a dream...