Jane Green Quotes

I had to get over [him]. For months now, a stone had been sitting on my heart. I'd shed a lot of tears over [him], lost a lot of sleep, eaten a lot of cake batter. Somehow, I had to move on. [Life] would be hell if I didn't shake loose from the grip he had on my heart. I most definitely didn't want to keep feeling this way, alone in a love affair meant for two. Even if he'd felt like The One. Even if I'd always thought we'd end up together. Even if he still had a choke chain on my heart.

I wake up every morning and it's like when you break up with somebody who has really broken your heart.

How could she go on without him? And, at the same time, how could she go on knowing that every moment of their time together had meant so little to him

They say that time heals a broken heart, but time has stood still since we've been apart.

You can make a thousand promises to yourself that you'll take that same fantastic love and give it to someone else, but the moment you see that person with someone else, it's like a gut full of razorblades. It never gets easier. And it shouldn't, really.

We only said goodbye with words I died a hundred time, you go back to her and I go back to black.

For to wish to forget how much you loved someone-- and then, to actually forget-- can feel, at times, like the slaughter of a beautiful bird who chose, by nothing short of grace, to make a habitat of your heart.

There's nothing like a song about lost love to remind you how everything precious can slip from the hinges where you've hung it so careful.

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 guess it's going to have to hurt, I guess I'm going to have to cry, And let go of some things I've loved to get to the other side I guess it's going to break me down, Like fallin when you try to fly, Sad but sometimes moving on with the rest of your life starts with goodbye

I’ve lost so many people. Some I left on purpose and never looked back. Some were taken from me, and I never said good-bye.

They say that breaking up is hard to do, now I know, I know that it's true.

Losing love is like a window in your heart.

Heart, we will forget him, You and I, tonight! You must forget the warmth he gave, I will forget the light.

The sun won't shine since you went away, seems like the rain's falling every day. There's just one heart, where there once was two; that's the way it's gotta be until I get over you.

I wish I never fell so deep in love with you and now it ain't no way we can be friends.

Better to have loved and lost than to live with regret.

Love is brief: forgetting lasts so long.

A person could leave you so quickly. So much history and time and memories, but they snuck away from you, and other things took their place. How could you hold on? Wait. A bigger question. The biggest. How could you hold on and let go?

You who have inhabited me in the deepest and most broken place, are going, going

No one teaches you how to do this. How do you let go of someone who you love so much?

I was born when I met you, now I'm dying to forget you

You know she's going to leave my broken heart behind her...

There is always some regret when we accept that love has moved away from us