Heartbreaker Quotes

“At first I did not love you, Jude; that I own. When I first knew you I merely wanted you to love me. I did not exactly flirt with you; but that inborn craving which undermines some women's morals almost more than unbridled passion--the craving to attract and captivate, regardless of the injury it may do the man--was in me; and when I found I had caught you, I was frightened. And then--I don't know how it was-- I couldn't bear to let you go--possibly to Arabella again--and so I got to love you, Jude. But you see, however fondly it ended, it began in the selfish and cruel wish to make your heart ache for me without letting mine ache for you.”
― Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure

“He was the kind of young man whose handsome face has brought him plenty of success in the past and is now ever-ready for a new encounter, a fresh-experience, always eager to set off into the unknown territory of a little adventure, never taken by surprise because he has worked out everything in advance and is waiting to see what happens, a man who will never overlook any erotic opportunity, whose first glance probes every woman's sensuality, and explores it, without discriminating between his friend's wife and the parlour-maid who opens the door to him. Such men are described with a certain facile contempt as lady-killers, but the term has a nugget of truthful observation in it, for in fact all the passionate instincts of the chase are present in their ceaseless vigilance: the stalking of the prey, the excitement and mental cruelty of the kill. They are constantly on the alert, always ready and willing to follow the trail of an adventure to the very edge of the abyss. They are full of passion all the time, but it is the passion of a gambler rather than a lover, cold, calculating and dangerous. Some are so persistent that their whole lives, long after their youth is spent, are made an eternal adventure by this expectation. Each of their days is resolved into hundreds of small sensual experiences - a look exchanged in passing, a fleeting smile, knees brushing together as a couple sit opposite each other - and the year, in its own turn, dissolves into hundreds of such days in which sensuous experience is the constantly flowing, nourishing, inspiring source of life.”
― Stefan Zweig, The Burning Secret and other stories

“I HOLD

If I could have had
him,
I could have let
him
go.

But without
the having
there was
nothing—
so to the nothing
I
hold.”
― Coco J. Ginger

“She stabbed him with her wicked pretty knife, disrupted his simple life.
She's a player, a heartbreaker,
and now she breaks alone.”
― Jamie Weise

“A POCKET-SIZED GIRL

He keeps me in his pocket
for a rainy day;
he swears I'm not an object
as he yo-yo's me away.

A friend is what we'll call it,
but my friend, he does not know,
each time it rains I love him—
so to his pocket, I must go.

He thinks he's being clever,
but I am not a fool;
his love ain't worth a penny,
so to my heart I must be cruel.”
― Coco J. Ginger

“Don't let a cruel word escape your mouth. There's no greater sin than breaking a heart.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“MY MOON

I'll always wonder what time it is there; if you're dreaming, or awake. My moon is your sun; my darkness, your light.

I'm in the future, you'd jokingly say.

And I know where you are, because I'm watching you from the past.”
― Coco J. Ginger

“Finding out that you are not your lover’s only lover hurts, but not as much as discovering that you are the side chick … or the side dick.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Believe me when I say:
'Out of all those around,
she’s the best locksmith in town.'
Her stethoscope ears
know when the dials of your heart
click into place.
She’s been cutting keys for years.
You don’t stand a chance
with that flimsy case.
Alas, no matter how
you lock your heart—
bolt, fixture, and
key—
she’s got nimble fingers
that pick locks for
free.
Padlocks and deadbolts
are all in vain.
Why do you even bother
with that chain?
She’s way too smart.
Along with ours, she’ll have
your heart.
And you will see
that the best locksmith in town
is she.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“The passage is free for those who think you are not good enough for them: at your level, I think the best option is to sit back, relax and listen to a cool music, while watching them pack out of your life, and that's when you feel the intense release from the pit of hell.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“WORTHY


If you ever decide to feel— feel this:
I love you. I always have. I always will.

Not because you're charming, beautiful
or lovable.
But because I choose you.
Everyday I wake up and I choose you—
again, and again, and again.

But if you cannot feel, and if you never
feel this, then know:
I do not love you. I never have. I never will.
Because you're not worth my love.

(Come back my love, I am drowning.)”
― Coco J. Ginger

“7am

They said that I’d forget you,
and I knew it wasn’t true.
But sometimes I wake up now,
and my heart’s no longer blue.

I press the Keurig button,
dancing across the room—
Sometimes it’s nearly seven,
before I’ve thought of you.

And though we sleep together,
all night side by side,
one day I’ll have my coffee
without you in my mind.”
― Coco J. Ginger

“I challenge a man to a duel before allowing him near me, and then I take an arrow, dip it in poison, and drive it straight through his heart...But that's on a good day...when I purr and feel delightfully amorous. No need to mention what I'd do on a bad one.”
― Donna Lynn Hope

“He truly believed that no one could love him, and no matter who you are, that hurts. It made you insecure. It made you want to hide and build fences”
― Harlan Coben, Fade Away

“The honeymoon phase was over. He still called me his girl, still held me like I meant everything and I really wanted to believe he was still completely here with me. I looked over his body and at his sleeping face. I slowly moved out of his bed, and tip toed to the bathroom where I fell to the tiled floor and sobbed.”
― Mercy Cortez, Never Ever After

“A WISH

Sometimes I wish
that he will live
and I will see him.

But mostly I wish
that he will die, and take
my memories with him.”
― Coco J. Ginger

“It had been so long since she had felt anything.”
― Montgomery Mahaffey, Ella Bandita and the Wanderer

“There's a special place kept for the person who first breaks your heart.”
― Hiromi Goto, Shadow Life

“Unrequited love is a billion times less intolerable than unrequited hate.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“I truly believe that the amount you hurt is equal to the amount you loved that person.”
― Carrie Hope Fletcher

“I'm highly contagious.
I'm a tortured soul.
I've got your spilt personality.
I'm your hard-earned cash.
The Mary Jane stash.
I'm your blockade.
The snow storm in the middle of June.
The queen of hearts up my sleeve.
I break them.
Hearts I mean.”
― Benny Woith, vast.

“I really don't know who has it worse:
The heartbreaker who guiltily draws the line--
The heartbroken convinced they are cursed--
Or the ghosts who watch it happen every time.”
― Karl Kristian Flores, Can I Tell You Something?

“I love my family,” she says, placing her fingertips to her temples. “But you’re my future. So if it’s a choice, I choose you.”
― Siobhan Davis, Light of a Thousand Stars

“Day drinking with a broken heart
is like selling loose Cuban cigars like Newports,
tryna leave the country without passports,
and putting yourself in a situation you can’t handle.”
― Frida R., Blossom's Wine Bar

“As time goes by, I realized that, words actually enact as a motivator and at the same time as the heartbreaker in a person's life. Hence, choose your words wisely. Let people be inspired by your words, don't dash someone's heart.”
― SoulWanderer_

“Un amor creado solo para que dos personas se curen las heridas mutuamente, es horroroso.”
― Inio Asano, Goodnight Punpun Omnibus, Vol. 3

“Birdie, I know you’re angry with me.”
“I’m not angry,” Birdie said.
Poopie slammed a hand on the counter. “Yes, you are. Just tell me you are. Yell at me. Do something.”
“I don’t own the orchard yet. I can’t fire you.”
Poopie looked like she’d been slapped. Then she raised herself up, straightening her back and lifting her chin.
“If you want me to leave, I will.”
Birdie twisted the dish towel in her hands. “You left me already.”
― Jodi Lynn Anderson, The Secrets of Peaches

“Your baby would be better looking than that Brad Pitt kid, Moses or Shiloh or whatever. Hard on the rest of us tadpoles."
Leeda rolled her eyes. "Yeah, and your babies would be total slouches." When the two were out together, it was Murphy who had the freakish ability to make random guys approach her out of nowhere. Once she had been hit on by a Hare Krishna while they were eating ice cream in the East Village. She could bend spoons with the sheer force of her curves. "Do you ever want a boyfriend again?" Leeda mused.
"I have boyfriends."
"You have boys. Not boyfriends. Heartbreaker.”
― Jodi Lynn Anderson, Love and Peaches

“She had said a lot about his tomcatting reputation and the women in his checkered past; she had even called him a heartbreaker. But she was the true heartbreaker, with her sunlight hair and summer-green eyes, a golden woman who he never would have forgotten, even if she’d never come back into his life. Beckman had been obsessed with her, had gone mad when he lost her, and for the first time John thought he might understand. He wouldn’t have a life, either, if he lost Michelle.”
― Linda Howard, Heartbreaker

“She didn’t need to be working cattle any more than an expensive thoroughbred should be used to plow a field.”
― Linda Howard, Heartbreaker