reacting to a broken heart Quotes

“do not look for healing at the feet of those who broke you”

“And then quite distinctly I felt the splintering along the fissure line in my heart as the smaller part wrenched itself away from the whole.”

“You know, a heart can be broken, but it keeps on beating, just the same.”

“Thine eyes I love, and they, as pitying me, Knowing thy heart torment me with disdain, Have put on black and loving mourners be, Looking with pretty ruth upon my pain. And truly not the morning sun of heaven Better becomes the grey cheeks of the east, Nor that full star that ushers in the even, Doth half that glory to the sober west, As those two mourning eyes become thy face.”

“Let me excuse thee: ah! my love well knows Her pretty looks have been mine enemies; And therefore from my face she turns my foes, That they elsewhere might dart their injuries: Yet do not so; but since I am near slain, Kill me outright with looks, and rid my pain.”

“Note to self: Do not under any circumstances fall in love again.”

I’m erasing myself from the narrative. Let future historians wonder how Eliza reacted when you broke her heart.