Emma Forrest Quotes

The girl's lover was gone, but his shadow was still there.

Music I heard with you was more than music, and bread I broke with you was more than bread. Now that I am without you, all is desolate; all that was once so beautiful is dead.

When you love someone, and you've lost that one, then nothing really matters.

I have come to realize that destiny can hurt a person as much as it can bless them, and I find myself wondering why--out of all the people in all the world I could ever have loved--I had to fall in love with someone who was taken away from me.

I've lost the one girl I found.

I stood on the balcony dark with mourning... hoping the earth would spread its wings in my uninhabited love.

But the absence of him is everywhere I look. It's like a huge hole has been punched through my chest.

it just breaks / a man's heart, watching / a girl so involved with her life, / without him like that.

When David left me I became totally brokenhearted.

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.

Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.

Hell, madam, is to love no longer.

The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.

I just like to sing for people who have lost love.

'Heartbreak Heard Around the World' is about me and my girl, and I'm just going through a broken-heart stage in a relationship, and I'm just kind of expressing my love for her.

I cannot love as I have loved, And yet I know not why; It is the one great woe of life To feel all feeling die.

When your heart is broken, you feel like no freaking book in the world could help you because a book is not the person who you love, who doesn't love you. However, books help, if only because they serve as something you can hold in your hand and throw across the room in agony.

Mother's Day is a torment if your mother is dead. Valentine's Day is a torment if you don't got one. And at some point in our lives, we will be tormented by Valentine's Day even if we're relatively lucky in love.

We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead.

Do you know what people want more than anything? They want to be missed. They want to be missed the day they don't show up. They want to be missed when they're gone.

If I had any advice to give to anybody, it would be record your parents talking so that, when you're longing to hear that voice, you can play the tape. But for me, it's a little often. You don't always need to be reminded that he isn't here anymore.

When he died, he took a big piece of me with him. I'm sure that every time I do something, I'll think about having done it with Hef.