1. trying to forget someone you loved is like trying to remember someone you never knew. (14)

2. sometimes you can’t let go of the hurt, because it’s all that’s left of the greatest love story you never thought would end. (13)

3. it is a certain tragedy when agony and resentment are all you have left connecting you to someone you once loved. (11)

JSB Morse in "Now and at the Hour of Our Death"
goodreads.com/author/quotes/2912065.J_S_B_Morse

4. what’s even more painful than being abandoned, is knowing that you’re not even worth an explanation. (11)

5. i cried today not because i miss you, but because i finally realized i’m going to be alright without you. (10)

6. a broken heart is just the growing pains necessary so you can love more completely when the real thing comes along. (10)

JSB Morse, Now and at the Hour of Our Death

7. sometimes the greatest enemy of our present happiness is the past happiness that is too well remembered. (10)

8. love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop. (10)

anonymous

9. love is never lost. if not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart. (9)

washington irving

10. better never to have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for hands that are not there. (8)

otomo no yakamochi

11. there is love of course. and then there's life, its enemy. (8)

jean anouilh

12. hearts are often broken with words left unspoken (7)

13. 'tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. (6)

alfred lord tennyson

14. ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation. (5)

kahlil gibran

15. i was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself t (4)

margaret mitchell

16. the way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost. (3)

g. k. chesterton