Tom Holt Quotes

Little Jane's love would have been my best reward, without it, my heart is broken.

I felt I couldn't lose anything else, but just then I realized I already had: I'd lost the hope that I would ever be loved in just that way again.

Of love that never found his earthly close, What sequel? Streaming eyes and breaking hearts; Or all the same as if he had not been?

I spent the rest of the day doing little more than that. I skipped dinner. I shed a few tears. But mostly, I just sat on my bed thinking and growing more and more depressed. I also discovered the only thing worse than imagining Dimitri and Tasha together was remembering when he and I had been together. He would never touch me again like that, never kiss me again.

I've lost the one girl I found.

There is always some regret when we accept that love has moved away from us

For to wish to forget how much you loved someone-- and then, to actually forget-- can feel, at times, like the slaughter of a beautiful bird who chose, by nothing short of grace, to make a habitat of your heart.

When David left me I became totally brokenhearted.

Left love behind many years ago. Now it rests under a cross in the cemetery in Tombstone.

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.

I'm very emotional: to lose love is the same as dying.

I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someone who might have loved you back but can't due to deadness.

The day is breaking someone else's heart.

The hurt of a love that is lost has no cure but the love of another heart.

She didn't know how much she'd been hoping that he still loved her, until she felt how much it hurt to realize he didn't.

There is one thing infinitely more pathetic than to have lost the woman one is in love with, and that is to have won her and found out how shallow she is!

Fro and to in my dreams to you To the haunting tune of the harp For the price I paid when you died that day I paid that day with my heart Fro and to in my dreams to you With the breaking of my heart Ne'er more again will I sing this song Ne'er more will I hear the harp.

If broken hearts could kill, the earth would be as dead as the moon.

Well, my comfort is, I am sure Jane will die of a broken heart, and then he will be sorry for what he has done.

The sun's gone dim, and the moon's gone black. For I loved him, and he didn't love back.

He did not fail in love, but he lost the joy of it [...]

There is no sorrow like the memory of love and the knowledge that it is gone forever.

We could go back to the time when we first met: a man in emotional tatters over someone who had left him, and a woman madly in love with her neighbor. I could repeat what I said to you once: 'I'm going to fight to the bitter end.' Well, I fought and I lost, and now I'll just have to lick my wounds and leave.

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.