This is life. It's messy and unpredictable, full of wonderful surprises and mind-numbing disappointment. The uncertainty of it all is why I hide, trying to avoid all pain and the heartache.

Denise Grover Swank

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I thought that jealousy was an idea. It isn't. It's a pain. But I didn't feel as they do in a Broadway melodrama. I didn't want to kill anybody. I just wanted to die.

It hurts because it matters.

When you love, you get hurt. When you get hurt, you hate. When you hate, you try to forget. When you try to forget, you start missing. And when you start missing, you'll eventually fall in love again.

You think being dead inside is bad until someone brings you back to life and stabs you in the chest without the intention of killing you.

It's wicked to throw away so many good gifts because you can't have the one you want.

Louisa May Alcott

You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.

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