Oh yeah, the heartbreak diet.... Been there, done that, bought the T-shirt.

Missing someone has to be one of the worst human emotions. All the other feelings like anger and fear and horror get some much more airplay, as if their intensity gives them more value, but whereas those emotions come in violent bursts and are gone again, the gnawing ache of loss has to be simply endured. It's like background noise, it's always there, it never goes away. You just have to try to block it out, distract yourself, hope that tomorrow the hole they left behind has grown a little smaller.

I was in love with the idea of him. An ideal of him. Of who I thought he was. Of who he used to be.

We are the sum total of our memories. Memories are the most precious things we have. Good or bad. That's what make us who we are. What would we be without them?

...when you decide you want to be with someone forever, you want forever to start right now.

Too many people miss out on real love because they're too busy waiting for the ONE to show up

If the worst is going to happen, it'll happen. Worrying can't protect you from that. And if it doesn't happen then you've missed out on all the time that when you could have been having fun