Legalistic remorse says, "I broke God's rules," while real repentance says, "I broke God's heart. "
What else she doesn't know: that the man next to her would end up being her husband and the father of her two children, that after two years together he would leave her, her third and final heartbreak, and she would never love again.
He does something to me, that boy. Every time. It’s his only detriment. He steps on my heart. He makes me cry.
you're an expert at sorry and keeping the lines blurry
The biggest coward of a man is to awaken the love of a woman without the intention of loving her.
. . . Baggott enjoys living on the knife edge between hilarity and heartbreak and that makes her a writer after my own heart.
Her throat ached: adoration, heartbreak, in equal measure. “Kiss me,” she said. “Please.
Did I really want to stay on this road longer, knowing it was only going to end in devastation?
If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life; love empowers it. Bitterness sours life; love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life; love heals it. Bitterness blinds life; love anoints its eyes.
There is, after all, a kind of happiness in unhappiness, if it's the right unhappiness.
I'd like to think that when I sing a song, I can let you know all about the heartbreak, struggle, lies and kicks in the ass I've gotten over the years for being black and everything else, without actually saying a word about it.
Once, when I was young and true. Someone left me sad - Broke my brittle heart in two; And that is very bad. Love is for unlucky folk, Love is but a curse. Once there was a heart I broke; And that, I think, is worse.
Sometimes life has a cruel sense of humor, giving you the thing you always wanted at the worst time possible.
We have the tendency to judge others by their surface appearance, and to find only their negative qualities. But if we search beneath the surface we discover that a myriad of strains mix together to create a particular person's nature. The faults we perceive are likely to be the effect of circumstances, the psychological response to trauma, abuse, rejection, heartbreak, insecurity, pain, confusion, or disease.