"You don't have to wait for someone to treat you badly repeatedly. all it takes is once, and if they get away with it that once, if they know they can treat you like that, then it sets the pattern for the future.'"

- bookends by jane green

"Maybe we like the pain. Maybe we're wired that way. Because without it, I don't know; maybe we just wouldn't feel real. What's that saying? Why do I keep hitting myself with a hammer? Because it feels so good when I stop."

-Meredith Grey, Grey's Anatomy

"One of these days you'll realize how I was the one for you. How you threw it all away. And when that day comes, I'll smile and tell you the same things you once told me. That you're my friend. And that's all I want us to be. And maybe, if you're lucky, you'll open your eyes, and see how those words can never be comforting. And you'll never say them again."

"You know what makes letting go of a crush so hard? The fear that the minute you let go...they'll catch on."

"Maybe I wasn't asking you to love me, maybe I was asking you to understand, because for so long I've been hurt and for so long you've ignored it, and maybe it is bad timing, but maybe, I don't care. I've been here all along just waiting, waiting for you to notice, waiting for you to care. Waiting for you to say that you've been waiting too, and you haven't and maybe you never will or maybe you're afraid to. But it all hurts the same, and in the end, I'm the one that's left broken and when I lay down to sleep, I'm still the one crying, so screw the bad timing. I've loved you then, like I love you now, like I probably always will."

· "Nobody will ever match up with that, not really, I'm probably going to spend my whole life chasing him— writing about him, trying to catch him in my notebooks and stories and wrapping him up in convoluted sentences until I can lose him in the structure of some book, in the structure of that great novel everyone tells me I'm destined to write, until then he'll only exist in pop songs like this, and in my heart."

"Am I supposed to move on now? Do people look at me and go 'she's gotta get over it already, it's ruining her life.'" - Grey's Anatomy

"Sometimes I hope we're still friends when I get married. I hope that I'll invite you to the wedding and you'll come. Then you'll see me as the happiest girl in the world. You'll see me with a guy that treats me right and loves me more than himself. You'll see all that you could've had and you'll regret letting me go. But the thing that I want you to see the most is that I survived without you."

"I wish he meant it when he kissed me, because then I could look back and remember someone who loved me. Now I can only look back and realize someone used me."

"What if I said that you never mattered? That I never lost one moment of sleep? What if I crushed all your dreams? Broke all the promises you swore to keep? Tell me how your life would be, if I did what you did to me."

"You don’t wanna move but I can’t always be the one that takes the step. Any more steps and I’m walking away." - Grey's Anatomy

Someone asked me once, " Would you have still tried even if you knew it wouldn't work?"

I said: "It's like this... championship game. 2 secs left on the clock. My team is down by one. I have the ball and I'm open for a jumpshot. Should I take the shot or not? If I make it, we win and celebrate. If I didn't, we lose and we go home crying. I guess I'll still take that shot. And in case I miss the shot, I'd still cry... but it feels a lot less painful knowing that at least I tried."

"It's funny how other people offer to do lots of brave things for just for you, yet we still choose someone who doesn't give us even half of what others could offer."

"No, don't even tell me you were ever in love with me because I know better, I know that no one just falls out of love, it's too strong for that, and don't give me that look...I know that look in your eyes, cause I can see through them and into your mind and maybe even your soul, and I don't feel love...I don't feel anything."

"It's so weird...you know...how we always inevitably find ourselves wanting to run back to the ones we used to love. For some reason thinking it would work out differently the second time around. But it didn't. Nothing's changed between us. He's still the same guy he was last time and I'm still the same girl. I promised myself I'd never end up with the same type of guy. I'd never cry again. He was my only weakness yet my greatest sense of security."

"I've decided you're not worth it. I won't shed another tear over you. Why on earth would I cry over someone who could care less about me? That only makes me seem pathetic. And I'm not. I never was. I was only in love with someone who didn't have the capability of loving me back." - Joanne Golden

"I didn't cry as much as I thought I would, I wasn't as lost as I thought I'd be. In fact, now, I feel strangely free, just to be me!"

"I was the one who said things changed. You were the one to prove it."

I understand that in this black and white world that you live in, you didn't see any choices. But that's not my world. I see things in gray ... and that's what makes us different, and that's what made me fall in love with you ... and that is what's tearing us apart. - Dawson's Creek

"Of course you're gonna get your heart broken. And it isn't just gonna happen once, but a lot. That's just part of growing up, and it makes you stronger. Then you can handle it better the next time. You may not get through it yourself, but your friends will help you through it. And you'll be a stronger person because of it. Then, one day, someone will come along, and it'll all pay off, and no one will ever break your heart again."