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Quotes tagged “Heartbreak”

“No wonder the word cancer and cancel look so similar.”
— Amy Krouse Rosenthal, You May Want to Marry My Husband
Tagged: Death, Dying, cancer, Heartbreak, Love, Loss, Love And Loss
“For those times when you're hurting, particularly after a break-up, allow yourself the room to grieve the relationship with songs that make you feel all the feels.”
— Cupcakes and Cashmere, What Do You Listen to After a Breakup?
Tagged: Breakup Songs, Sad Songs, Music, Breakups, Breaking Up, Heartbreak
“Johnny: All those times you came back 'cause of whatever asshole up there wasn't working out. All those times I came back to you like a baboso. And every fucking time, you break my heart. 

Lyn: Well, I'd say that it was much more complicated than that, Johnny.

Johnny: Please! And this time I'm not letting you get in there! I ain't the same pendejo from before, who just smell you and starts babeando. 
I got myself a great girl and I'm about to be a father with her, and you know what? I've never been happier about nothing in my whole life, so I'm begging you, please, for however long you have to be in town this time, stay the fuck away from me.”
— Johnny, Vida, Season 1: Episode 2
Tagged: spanish, explicit, swearing, argument, Lovers, Ex-Lovers, heart, Heartbreak, father, Happy, Bitter
“ I don't like it when you assfucked my best friend in the heart.”
— Ray Ploshansky, Girls, Season 1: Hard Being Easy
Tagged: Heartbreak, Protecting Friends
“She tells me, 'I don't know how to love anyone with my whole being,'
I tell her, 'I don't know how to not.'”
— Blythe Baird, The Kindest Thing She Almost Did
Tagged: Poetry, poem, Love Poem, Heartbreak, Exes, Almost Loves
“Naomi: Are you breaking up with me?

Ethan: I'm breaking up with us.”
— Ethan Ward, 90210, Season 1: The Jet Set
Tagged: Break Up, Heartbreak, US, couple, Relationships, Dating, Sad
“I think a lot of people write drafts like these, but maybe fewer revisit them regularly. I love to reread mine.”
— Christina McCausland, That Time I Accidentally Emailed an Old Love Letter Draft to My Ex
Tagged: Exes, Love, Heartbreak, Love and Heartbreak, Love Letters
“If you're still upset, it means you still have feelings for her.”
— Stella Abbott, Life Sentence, Season 1: Wes Side Story
Tagged: Relationships, Feelings, upset, Love, Heartbreak, hurt, break ups, Advice
“Michael: Jane, what's wrong?

Jane: Rafael and I broke up. 

Michael: Are you okay?

Narrator: Which brings us back to the last stage of grief: acceptance.

Jane: Yeah, I am, actually. I have to be. Better to know now, you know? Before the baby comes, in the long run, it's better to know now.”
— Jane Villanueva, Jane the Virgin, Season 1: Chapter Nineteen
Tagged: Break Up, Heartbreak, Grief, Acceptance, stages of grief, Baby, Long Run, mature, Exes
“Rafael: Look last night got me thinking, too, and I realized that something has changed.

Jane: What?

Rafael: I just don't love you the way that you love me. That's the problem. That's why this won't work.”
— Rafael Solano, Jane the Virgin, Season 1: Chapter Nineteen
Tagged: Break Up, Heartbreak, Love, hurt, Rejection, realization, Problem
“Jane: We just got back to being friends.

Rafael: That is my counterargument, which is really just me apologizing for being a jerk and talking about how much your friendship means and how much I missed you. And how co-parenting has to be our top priority.

Jane: That's the thing. Matteo.

Rafael: That's section two: a list about how it would ultimately benefit him if we worked out.

Jane: If?

Rafael: Just continue reading! We take is slow, not much would change, and we're already living together, so we just treat it like any other new relationship and we don't tell him for a while. Why not try?

Jane: I just had my heart broken...

Rafael: I know. And there's a section about timing, and how I know it's not perfect. Come on, you don't have an incredible kiss like that if there's nothing there.”
— Rafael Solano, Jane the Virgin, Season 4: Chapter Seventy-Two
Tagged: Friends, Apology, Co-Parenting, Friendship, Love, Relationships, Dating, Heartbreak, Timing, kiss, Spark, Counterarguments
“The prize wasn’t a gift from the universe so much as a cruel joke.”
— Nell Stevens, How I Lost the Fiancé but Won the Honeymoon
Tagged: Healing, Lost Love, Heartbreak, Breakups
“I suppose so. I had been with this one woman for 10 years and when I found out what had been going on, I pretty much went berserk. When I found out about her and her boyfriend, I knocked on their door at five in the morning and smacked the guy in the face. That’s what I got locked up for.”
— Peter Steele, Peter Steele: The final interview
Tagged: Heartbreak, Cheating, Assault, Arrest
“Janet: Eleanor told me that instead of being sad, I should go get it, girl. So I'm going to go get it, girl.

Michael: Get what?

Janet: Unclear. I'll get everything, just to be safe.”
— Janet, The Good Place, Season 2: Janet and Michael
Tagged: Breakups, Heartbreak, Self-Care, Sadness, joke
“Love’s the worst. I wish there was a magic cure.”
— Mary Margaret Blanchard, Once Upon a Time, Season 1: 7
Tagged: Love, The worst, Magic Cure, Heartache, Heartbreak
“That poor, blind fool. He don't know it but he's headed right for Heartbreak Alley.”
— Barney Fife, The Andy Griffith Show, Season 3: Andy's Rich Girlfriend
Tagged: poor, Blind, Fool, Heartbreak
“Yeah, it's called heartbreak. About two billion songs written about it.”
— Stiles Stilinski, Teen Wolf, Season 1: Lunatic
Tagged: Heartbreak, Songs, Sad Love Songs
“No matter who we are, we all experience moments of dread. When we ask ourselves: Will anyone believe I'm innocent? Will my daughter be a child of divorce? Will this man break my heart? Are there things that go bump in the night? And sometimes, the answer is yes.”
— Marc Cherry, Brian Tanen, Desperate Housewives, Season 7: Then I Really Got Scared
Tagged: dread, Innocence, Child of Divorce, Heartbreak
“How do you explain every version of yourself to someone who’s barely met you?”
— Dana Schwartz, You Get A Breakup Text While In A Meeting With Your Boss. What Do You Do?
Tagged: Relationships, Jealousy, Heartbreak, Breakups
“This is the numbness you feel right after a breakup. It’s the frozen terror you feel when you receive bad news. It’s the shock that hasn’t worn off a tragedy. The liminal space is the unprocessed aftermath of trauma. It is emotional limbo. It's the pause between pain and progress, between epiphany and evolution.”
— Shahida Arabi, The Liminal Space Between Heartbreak And Healing: 7 Steps To Get Out Of Emotional Limbo
Tagged: Liminal Space, Heartbreak, Healing, Grief, Transformation, poetic prose

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