Anna Akhmatova Quotes

Go on, now, go. Walk out the door. Just turn around now, 'cause you're not welcome anymore. Weren't you the one who tried to hurt me with 'goodbye?' Did you think I'd crumble? Did you think I'd lay down and die? I will survive.

Don't say you're sorry, 'cause I'm not even breaking. You're not worth the time that this is taking.

This time I wouldn't forget him, because I couldn't ever forgive him - for breaking my heart twice.

Sometimes people break your heart enough that it's not heartbreaking anymore.

It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.

People have let me down in the past. I've loved something, and it's become a disgrace. I'd rather start again.

And with that answer, he left me. I would much rather he had knocked me down.

I won't telephone him. I'll never telephone him again as long as I live. He'll rot in hell, before I'll call him up. You don't have to give me strength, God; I have it myself. If he wanted me, he could get me. He knows where I am. He knows I'm waiting here. He's so sure of me, so sure. I wonder why they hate you, as soon as they are sure of you.

She's been conned, ruined, left for dead, and she's not going to forgive any of it. She will soldier on, if only out of spite.

You’re not going to cry, are you? - I am not going to cry! Not over you. Not in a thousand years.

I can definitely relate to Jacob's feelings in Breaking Dawn. When he gets the invitation to the wedding, he doesn't handle it very well. And I don't think I would either. If I were in love with a girl and she told me she was marrying somebody else, that would crush me. And that's what it does. It destroys Jacob.

When Love cast me out, it was Cruelty who took pity upon me

It doesn't matter what people think of me. I've lived my life.

You find out what you are made of when you have a broken heart. If it happens early and often, all the better.

When you see someone you love with somebody else, your heart kind of falls to the ground.

I can remember feeling very angry, and saying no! I can do it myself! From that point of view it was very emotional for me to get myself to the point to sit in the chair and be 'up'.

You can make your own way. It's about getting out there and not letting rejection get you down.

I have more of a desire to write songs about being an independent woman than being in love, songs about getting up and moving on even if I have a broken heart. 'Wanna Say' is one of the few love songs I've ever done.

We were both in love with him. I fell out of love with him, but he didn't.

Why would I cry over a boy? I would never waste my tears on a boy. Why waste your tears on someone who makes you cry?

I certainly didn't want to date. I was through with guys.

In my experience lust only ever leads to misery. All that suspicion and jealousy and anguish it unleashes. I don't want those things in my life.

I have more of a desire to write songs about being an independent woman than being in love, songs about getting up and moving on even if I have a broken heart.

Since being quite young, I've had a very strong sense of independence and survival. As a child, I was on my own two feet emotionally.

If I lose, I lose. I'll do it on my terms.