Alison McGhee Quotes

My heart hurt so much I can't believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?

People die of broken hearts. They have heart attacks. And it's the heart that hurts most when things go wrong and fall apart.

Indeed — why should I not admit it? — in that moment, my heart was breaking.

Tears don't hurt like the ache does.

Don't tell my heart, my achy breaky heart, I just don't think it'd understand.

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

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

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

Broken hearts are for assholes, are you an asshole?

My heart was broken and my head was just barely inhabitable

My chest hurts...It hurts. The sound of his name is like a knife in my heart.

My heart is its own grave!

Being brokenhearted is like having broken ribs. On the outside it looks like nothing's wrong, but every breath hurts.

Betty died of a broken heart. Some people laugh when they hear that phrase, but that's because they don't know anything about the world. People die of broken hearts. It happens every day, and it will go on happening to the end of time.

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.

When you're dreaming with a broken heart, the waking up is the hardest part. You roll outta bed and down on your knees and for a moment you can hardly breathe.

I could never hurt him enough to make his betrayal stop hurting. And it hurts, in every part of my body.

The day is breaking someone else's heart.

Well in case you failed to notice, In case you failed to see, This is my heart bleeding before you, This is me down on my knees These foolish games are tearing me apart Your thoughtless words are breaking my heart You're breaking my heart

my heart would swell without warning, and tremble, and lurch with a stab of pain. I would try clamping my eyes shut and gritting my teeth, and waiting for it to pass. And it would pass -- but slowly, taking its own time, and leaving a dull ache behind.

Stop dragging my heart around.

I have learned how to love. And it's a terrible thing. I'm broken. My heart is broken. Help me.

Her heart ached as though a knife had quietly slipped between her ribs.