Sarah Dessen Quotes

I would say that I learned that the heartbreak wasn't as much about me as the fact that my partner wasn't right with himself. I see where his life has taken him, and realize that the handwriting was on the wall. There were things that I had blamed myself for, but it was really more about his choices, his needs and his journey as a person. His desire for too much of everything made it a challenging relationship.

A bad love experience is no reason to fear a new love experience.

It’s been a full week since she left and all you’ve done is sulk like a dying cow. (Kish)

When love is gone, there's always justice.

It isn't up to me to break his heart; that's time's job.

Because we managed to keep our heart open, despite the pain. Because we realized that the person who left us did not take the sun with them or leave darkness in their place.

They say that time heals a broken heart, but time has stood still since we've been apart.

Better to have loved and lost than to live with regret.

Weep if you must Parting is hell But life goes on So sing as well.

Letting go of someone we love is the hardest thing we will ever do. Some people never surrender to love for the fear of being hurt. But to not have loved, to not have felt the immense joy it brings, would have been a far worse kind of death.

The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it.

She wondered if maybe tragedy was what it took to make your heart capable of admitting a new member.

No one teaches you how to do this. How do you let go of someone who you love so much?

I've always believed that you shouldn't want to mend a broken heart, because that's someone you don't want to forget. Scars can be good.

You get used to falling in love with people and having to let them go.

Just because things don't work out, it doesn't mean there aren't other people you can't love. Love is too big a thing for you to go without it in life.

These are the intensities that one cannot live with, that he has to outgrow if he wants to survive. But who can help grieving for them? If the blood vessels could hold them, how much better to keep those early loves with us?

What was so terrible about grief was not grief itself, but that one got over it.

Hearts were made for being broken. There's really no way around it if you want to be a human being.

I'm sorry." "Be sorry you lied," he said, pressing a kiss to my forehead. "Don't be sorry you loved him. That's part of you, part you have to let go, yeah, but still something that's made you who you are.

Regrets came up and asked me if I’d like to own them. Declined them for the most part but took a few just so I wouldn’t leave this relationship empty handed.

Cherish your tears and their reasons, they will be the light of your smile, your inner peace and reconciliation.

Maybe I could have loved you better. Maybe you should have loved me more. Maybe our hearts were just next in line. Maybe everything breaks sometime.

Let your broken heart create an open heart

We are told by media - books, television, reality shows - that heartbreak is this terrible thing and yet we should seek it. We're told that heartbreak is all about love and we should just go after that high over and over again. We are told it is healthy to be addicted to this kind of behavior and the highs associated with love. But, that's not all what heartbreak is.