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Heart Ache Quotes

Quotes tagged as "heart-ache" Showing 1-27 of 27
Chuck Palahniuk
“I feel my heart ache, but I've forgotten what that feeling means.”
Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

Jonathan Safran Foer
“There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So I buried them, and let them hurt me.”
Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

Suzanne Collins
“How do you bear it?" Finnick looks at me in disbelief. "I don't, Katniss! Obviously, I don't. I drag myself out of nightmares each morning and find there's no relief in waking up." Something in my expression stops him. "Better not give in to it. It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.”
Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

“Years of love, followed by heartache.
Those are the years that define me.
Those are the years that know–
love’s eternity is you.”
C. Elizabeth

Suzanne Collins
“Anyone? On Snow's visit before the Victory Tour, he challenged me to erase any doubts of my love for Peeta. "Convince me," Snow said. It seems, under that hot pink sky with Peeta's life in limbo, I finally did. And In doing so, I gave him the weapon he needed to break me.”
Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

Sanober  Khan
“I am filled time and again
with a heart-aching wonder
when I think

of the fire
and frost of memories

of the everlastingness
of love

the solace
of family
and the power
of prayer.”
Sanober Khan, Turquoise Silence

Jennifer Salaiz
“Longing, whether for a passion or person, is one of the most powerful, yet painful, emotions there is. It can drive you to its source under the most extreme conditions, or it can cripple you from obtaining your dreams. When it comes to the pull you feel, always go after it, if not, it'll eat you alive.”
jennifer salaiz

Suzanne Collins
“It's impossible to be the Mockingjay. Impossible to complete even this one sentence. Because now I know that everything I say will be directly taken out on Peeta. Result in his torture. But not his death, no nothing so merciful as that. Snow will ensure that his life is much worse than death.”
Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

Jean Kwok
“I was a fool. I should have grabbed him when I could have had him all to myself, snatched him up like a ripe mango at the market. But how was I to know that this was what love felt like?”
Jean Kwok, Girl in Translation

Charlotte Eriksson
“It could have been so beautiful.
The way I learned and got free and swore to never love another person
ever again
and it could have been so beautiful,
the way I actually did.”
Charlotte Eriksson

“I need to learn to stay away from those who want to steal my heart and replace it with steel.”
Maria Nieves

Elicia Roper
“When your heart is aching, a warm cooked meal is the best medicine.”
Elicia Roper, All That You Are: a heartwarming and emotional novel

Charlotte Eriksson
“I have found no other cure for loneliness than to befriend it.”
Charlotte Eriksson

Pablo Neruda
“Love brought its tail of pains,
its long static beam of thorns,
and we close our eyes so that nothing,
so that no wound will separate us.”
Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

Margaret Atwood
“This form of love is like the pain
of childbirth: so intense
it's hard to remember afterwards,”
Margaret Atwood, Morning In The Burned House: Poems

Misba
“Heartache?” She scoffs. “That’s too much sweetening and buttering with words. I could almost call it a lie.”
Misba, The Oldest Dance

Anna Akhmatova
“I know: yes, no, even I must tear off
The delicate daisy petals.
Everyone on earth is destined to feel
The torments of love.”
Anna Akhmatova, The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

Melissa Broder
“The heart gets wounded—so what? I thought. I’d seen all the plays. I should have been prepared. Love goes. But what I hadn’t known was how good the love would feel when it was there, like a hymn moving through me all the time.”
Melissa Broder, Milk Fed

Eda J. Vor
“Some people just live out their whole lives with some sort of ache in their heart they never resolve.”
Eda J. Vor, Like Two Opposite Things

“The heart aches and bruises will shine through you, making you one unbreakable superstar.”
Hiral Nagda

Susan L. Marshall
“Love is hard,” I say. “Sometimes, deep inside, you hope that everything will get better, that it will be alright.” I choke on the last words, feeling a deep ache in my heart. I know what it’s like to hope.”
Susan L. Marshall, Adira and the Dark Horse

Susan L. Marshall
“The land of Maren, my island,
calls to me in my fretful sleep.
Like dancing ribbons of light,
it winds its memories around
my starved, yearning torso,
tearing at my aching heart.

“I am twirling now,
unravelling a ribbon memory
of light, warm sand
and cresting waves around me.

“To feel at breath with my
unique, native land
and to retrace my footprints
across its terrains would be ...
heavenly.”
Susan L. Marshall, All the Hope We Carry

Yesika Salgado
“I am good at this / turning heart ache into a party”
Yesika Salgado, Corazón

Darnell Lamont Walker
“When your love wasn’t enough, you banked on perseverance”
Darnell Lamont Walker