Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

Back to him she would never go, but in her lonely life still lived the sweet memory of that happy time when she believed in him and he was all in all to her.

My love for the band is still there. It hasn't changed, maybe that's why it's so painful these days.

I think that my regrets mostly have to do with my relationship with my ex-girlfriend. Every once in a while, you get those flashback memories of conversations you had with your exes, and you just, like, wince when you're walking down the street. Something occurs to you, 'Oh, no, I said that.'

I remember having crushes and longings, but there were all these missed opportunities or things that seemed like such a big deal, but you really don't understand what the other person is going through.

Maybe I'm too young to keep good love from going wrong, but tonight you're on my mind, so you never know.

You can't fast-forward heartbreak, and you can't rewind love - and that's just one big bummer.

You can miss someone every day and still be glad you don't have to see them.

I'm one of the few people I've ever met who is blessed enough to be able to love the one who got away.

I didn't have many romantic relationships, and the romantic scent inside me was beginning to disappear.

Bitterly I wondered if Hardy was going to overshadow every relationship for the rest of my life, haunting me like a ghost. I didn't know how to let him go. I'd never even had him.

I wondered if he ever thought of me, and hated the pang I felt when I told myself he didn't.

In time, the hurt began to fade and it was easier to just let it go. At least I thought it was. But in every boy I met in the next few years, I found myself looking for you, and when the feelings got too strong, I'd write you another letter. But I never sent them for fear of what I might find. By then, you'd gone on with your life and I didn't want to think about you loving someone else. I wanted to remember us like we were that summer. I didn't ever want to lose that.

In another life, I would be your girl, we keep all our promises, the us against the world, In another life, I would make you stay, So I don't have to say you were the one that got away the one that got away

For the eternity that Lux Lisbon looked at him, Trip Fontaine looked back, and the love he felt at that moment, truer than all subsequent loves because it never had to survive real life, still plagued him, even now in the desert, with his looks and health wasted. 'You never know what'll set the memory off,' he told us. 'A baby's face. A bell on a cat's collar. Anything.' They didn't exchange a single word. But in the weeks that followed, Trip spent his days wandering the halls, hoping for Lux to appear, the most naked person with clothes on he had ever seen.

For the rest of my life I would always be thinking about her. She would always be my biggest what if. -Perseus Jackson

If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes.

Pale hands I loved beside the Shalimar, where are you now? Who lies beneath your spell?

For me, I still have feelings for all of my ex-girlfriends. In different parts of my life, I would miss that person. There's something that drew me to that person, and I shared something with them.

I think every girl has that a guy she has trouble letting go of.

The last time I saw him he was walking down lover's lane holding his own hand.

Everyone, whether you are married or have a boyfriend or girlfriend, there's always someone who has a hold of your heart. You learn to let it go, but there's always a place in your heart. For me, it was someone I went to college with and we had an amazing bond, but I left.

In 1957's 'There's No You,' Sinatra is suspended at the intersection of a loss he can't face and a memory he can't relinquish.

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.

A pain stabbed my heart as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.