Rainbow Rowell Quotes

Hearts were made for being broken. There's really no way around it if you want to be a human being.

Don't mind if I fall apart. There's more room in a broken heart.

We have the idea that our hearts, once broken, scar over with an indestructible tissue that prevents their ever breaking again in quite the same place.

My desire to live is as intense as ever, and though my heart is broken, hearts are made to be broken: that is why God sends sorrow into the world.

The heart was made to be broken.

You know, a heart can be broken, but it keeps on beating, just the same.

I have learned how to love. And it's a terrible thing. I'm broken. My heart is broken. Help me.

The heart may be broken, and the soul remain unshaken.

The book [The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane] is about the fact that living in this world means that your heart is necessarily going to get broken. But the book also says that's okay. That's the only way to live a truly human life - with your heart getting broken - and eventually getting flooded with love.

It's okay not to be okay... Sometimes it's hard, to follow your heart but tears don't mean you're losing, everybody's bruising, there's nothing wrong with who you are.

Unto a broken heart No other one may go Without the high prerogative Itself hath suffered too.

It is better for the heart to break, than not to break.

The reality, certainly in my life, is that we all have love stories that go terribly wrong; we all have horribly broken hearts. And somehow we endure. We're not destroyed by it.

If we want to be able to move through the difficult disappointments, the hurt feelings, and the heartbreaks that are inevitable in a fully lived life, we can't equate defeat with being unworthy of love, belonging and joy. If we do, we'll never show up and try again.

As the smoke clears, I awaken, And untangle you from me. Would it make you feel better To watch me, while I bleed? All my windows still are broken, But I'm standing on my feet.

It can take years of tears to melt the hardness that develops in this world, covering our tender, gentler inner selves. Tears for every devastating loss, tears for every humiliating failure, tears for every repeated mistake. Those who honor those tears, and even honor them, are not failures at love but rather its true initiates. First the pain and then the power. First the heart breaks and then it soars.

Nobody goes through life without having their heart broken and one day you'll wake up and it'll be okay.

If your heart is open it can never stay broken.

My heart's been torn wide open, just like I feared it would be, and I have no willpower to close it back up.

I fix what's broken - except in the heart.

You awaken your True spirit by way of the broken heart: ragged, vulnerable, fierce and finally compassionate. Chris trod this rough way and shows honestly how it can be done.

Anxiety, heartbreak, and tenderness mark the in-between state. It's the kind of place we usually want to avoid. The challenge is to stay in the middle rather than buy into struggle and complaint. The challenge is to let it soften us rather than make us more rigid and afraid.

Indeed — why should I not admit it? — in that moment, my heart was breaking.

Only love can break your heart.

The human heart has a way of making itself large again even after it's been broken into a million pieces.