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Quotes for heartbreak, and for not sending that text
The message is typed. Your thumb is above send, and the Lock Screen is where you end up when you put the phone down and pick it up again four minutes later.
A song comes on in a shop. They appear on someone else's feed. You have a good Tuesday, then Wednesday drops out from under you. People who have been here describe waiting ten minutes before acting on the urge to text, and treating that urge as a wish for relief, which tells you little about what to do. Muting helps some. Calling a friend and going outside helps others. Plenty of them keep a note of why it ended.
You won't be asked to run down your ex or told that someone better is on the way, and the tone stays tender and low-key.
The moments
- A message typed and waiting
- The first weekend alone
- Their name on someone else's feed
- A song in a shop
- Deciding what to do with their things
- “Are you okay”, and not knowing the answer
- Wanting to go back because it was comfortable
What people say helps
- A ten-minute wait before acting on the urge to text
- Muting them or taking the reminders away
- Calling a friend, or going outside
- Keeping a note of the reasons it ended
“Plenty more fish” and “everything happens for a reason” try to close a subject you're still living in.
Quill Originals are written by Quill. Popular sayings are widely repeated lines with no name attached. Lines with a name are checked word for word against public-domain books.
Quill Originals
Thumb over send. Put the phone in another room first.
You can have a good day and still miss them.
Last seen is no longer your department. What a relief.
Skipping a song is allowed for as long as you like.
Keep what was given to you. Gifts stay gifts.
Enjoying something without them isn't disloyal.
Anger's allowed. It doesn't need to go in a message.
Clumsy comfort is still comfort.
Tonight's job: eat something, then bed.
A small day is fine.
You're allowed to skip the party if they'll be there.
A relationship ending isn't a verdict on you.
Ring a friend.
You sent it, as almost everyone has. Now let it lie.
Wait ten minutes. The message will still be there, unsent.
Angry is a normal stop. Walk it off rather than type it.
You're learning to be one person again.
You don't have to be sad on schedule.
Late night messages look different at breakfast.
If it's too heavy, a therapist's room is a normal place to put it.
Nobody to ask how your day was. That's the gap.
Who you are next is yours to work out, slowly.
Popular sayings
The best revenge is living well.
The right ones stay.
Know your worth.
Crying is not weakness.
Your value doesn't decrease based on someone's inability to see your worth.
Let it go.
From the books
Let love melt into memory and pain into songs.
Read the passage around this line
Great Time sits enamoured at your feet and murmurs: "Speak, speak to me, my love; speak, my bride!" But your speech is shut up in stone, O Immovable Beauty! 61 Peace, my heart, let the time for the parting be sweet. Let it not be a death but completeness. Let love melt into memory and pain into songs. Let the flight through the sky end in the folding of the wings over the nest. Let the last touch of your hands be gentle like the flower of the night. Stand still, O Beautiful End, for a moment, and say your last words in silence. I bow to you and hold up my lamp to light you on your way.
Absence extinguishes small passions and increases great ones, as the wind will blow out a candle, and blow in a fire.
Men have died from time to time and worms have eaten them, but not for love.
Read the passage around this line
… though Hero had turned nun, if it had not been for a hot midsummer night; for, good youth, he went but forth to wash him in the Hellespont and, being taken with the cramp, was drowned; and the foolish chroniclers of that age found it was Hero of Sestos. But these are all lies. Men have died from time to time and worms have eaten them, but not for love.
If one forgives, it must be completely, completely.
Read the passage around this line
“Oh, of course,” Dolly interposed quickly, as though saying what she had more than once thought, “else it would not be forgiveness. If one forgives, it must be completely, completely. Come, let us go; I’ll take you to your room,” she said, getting up, and on the way she embraced Anna. “My dear, how glad I am you came. It has made things better, ever so much better.”
The lamp of meeting burns long; it goes out in a moment at the parting.
Forget the wrongs that may have been done you.
Ye who suffer because ye love, love yet more.
Life has become richer by the love that has been lost.
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