Ann Brashares Quotes

During those formative times, I really didn't know what was going on, and I was sort of torn in a thousand different directions with how I felt about what I was doing.

Concealed sorrow bursts the heart, and rages within us as an internal fire.

Only self-hatred could lead him to ruin himself because his heart was "broken.

When people don't know what you are, you get your heart broken daily.

And so this young one, this young one whom I had so loved, I had to forsake, no matter how broken my heart, no matter how lonely my soul, no matter how bruised my intellect and spirit.

My heart was broken and my head was just barely inhabitable

Look at me, he said to her. His arms and legs jerked. Look at me. You got your wish. I have learned how to love. And it’s a terrible thing. I’m broken. My heart is broken. Help me. The old woman turned and hobbled away. Come back, thought Edward. Fix me

My heart is its own grave!

The words went round and round and round in my mind and my body, until I knew they were no longer my words but something that had been carved into my heart. And now my soul was crying.

Adrian stood there leaning against the doorframe, watching me with his heart in his eyes. In my chest, my own heart was breaking. On my cheek, the lily reminded me who I was.

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

My heart is a protest that I let rally against my ribs.

After a certain point, a heart with so many stress fractures can never be anything but broken.

I wake up feverish, sore, uncomfortable. Is it sickness or is it heartbreak? I can't tell. The thermometer says I'm normal, but I'm clearly not.

To have your heart in pieces while every other aspect of your life couldn't go better is a traumatic experience. In appearance, life is fine. But as you put your day in focus, everything turns grey. What happened made me realise that complete, absolute happiness doesn't exist.

At sometime in our lives a devil dwells within us, causes heartbreaks, confusion and troubles, then dies.

in the caves of my heart, where pain taps out its rhythms and sorrow sets its loss, i am without direction.

My heart beat Beats me senselessly Why's everything Gotta be so intense with me.

Guilt can make you doubt yourself at the very moment when you need to proceed with certainty.

A heart weighs more when it splits in two; it crashes in the chest like a broken plane.

Lie still, lie still, my breaking heart; My silent heart, lie still and break: Life, and the world, and mine own self, are changed For a dream's sake.

To one's enemies: "I hate myself more than you ever could.

My heart's broken,' he thought. 'If I feel this way my heart must be broken.

The fretful stir Unprofitable, and the fever of the world Have hung upon the beatings of my heart.

He was outwardly calm but inwardly bleeding to death.