Sarah Dessen Quotes

I've never had my heart broken. And I don't want to have my heart broken. I'm afraid of it. Even when I break someone else's heart, I'm really upset about it. And I'm not even feeling half of what they are.

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

Maybe it would be better if we didn't love. If we didn't lose, either. If we didn't get out hearts stomped on, shattered; if we didn't have to patch and repatch it until we're like Frankenstein monsters, all sewn together by who knows what

So I place my heart under lock and key, to take some time to look after me. But when I turn around you're standing there.

A man's ego is just as fragile as a woman's heart

People you don't love can't hurt you.

Try not to cry too much because it can be pretty heart-breaking and pretty hard.

There is no pain like the first time you get your heart broken.

Every night I cut out my heart. But in the morning it was full again

Be brave enough to break your own heart.

Lyall understood a broken heart, but it could not be allowed to rumple perfectly good shirtwaists.

Pride had kept her running when love had betrayed her.

... many a heart is caught in the rebound ... Pride may be soothed by the ready devotion of another; vanity may be excited the more keenly by recent mortification.

Take pride away from a man and you might as well run a knife through his heart.

Don't eat your heart.

You'll remember someone who broke your heart, and you'll think to yourself, 'Oh yes, I remember how that feels.' But you can't.

There is a comfort in the strength of love; 'Twill make a thing endurable, which else would overset the brain, or break the heart.

Grief does not expire like a candle or the beacon on a lighthouse. It simply changes temperature. It becomes a kind of personal weather system. Snow settles in the liver. The bowels grow thick with humidity. Ice congeals in the stomach. Frost spiderwebs in the lungs. The heart fills with warm rain that turns to mist and evaporates through a colder artery.

When Nehemiah's heart was broken he paid attention to his broken heart.

Girls that I dated, it's ok I am not mad yo Unless you stabbed me in the heart, no love ho.

There are hearts, reader, that never mend again once they are broken. Or if they do mend, they heal themselves in a crooked and lopsided way, as if sewn together by a careless craftsman.

I've tried that love thing for the last time. My heart says no, no! Nobody's supposed to be here, but you came along and changed my mind

And it only hurts when I'm breathing My heart only breaks when it's beating My dreams only die when I'm dreaming So, I hold my breath--to forget