“I love him. So much. To the point where you won’t understand. You don’t get it because I don’t get it. It’s there. It exists. It flows. It moves like rapids through my veins. Comes with bursts and occasionally fades with the day, but it’s always there. And when you find love like that, you don’t want to give it up. But sometimes you have to and sometimes you have to give it to someone else. That’s the hard part.”

―

Dominic Riccitello

“Apparently, something can happen inside someone you love—it can just happen somehow—and like magic she thinks that she’s had enough, and that the way the two of you have been for a really long time is no longer worth the effort. Does that sound familiar to anyone.”

―

Meg Wolitzer,


The Uncoupling

“The way I see it, you mostly stop loving a person the same way you stop respecting them. It can happen all at once if something enormous and terrible falls over the two of you. But for the most part, it happens in inches. In a thousand tiny moments of contempt that unravel the image you had of the person you thought you knew.”

―

Sarah Gailey,


The Echo Wife

“And you left your mark on me…
With the destruction of us, finally, we became no one.”

―

Nadège Richards,


5 Miles

“When two people part it is the one who is not in love who makes the tender speeches.”

―

Marcel Proust

“I loved him to death. Then I came to realization with how arrogant he was and instead of falling out of love, I fell harder. Every passing day I fell a little harder, a little faster, and a little sadder. I became anxious, obsessive, hurt, and sad. But one morning I awoke to realize I fell out of it. I loved him. I still do. But I was in love with him until the death of the relationship. Now I just love him. From afar. From the knowledge. From the happiness an individual gave me.”

―

Dominic Riccitello

“Falling in love is sudden, easy, and fun. It’s like a child going down a playground slide. Falling out of love is slow, difficult, and painful. It’s like watching a child die of cancer. ~ Ben Davis, Sr.”

―

Jayden Hunter,


Undressed To The Nines

“Never fall in love with stargazers – always with accelerated affection. Their love disappears in the blink of an eye like a shooting star.”

―

RSCruz

“She was convinced a word existed, a noun, that meant the loss of feelings for someone who was formerly loved—a word for the act of falling out of love. I said I couldn’t think of it. It wasn’t in the dictionary either, not the one she wanted.”

―

Olivia Sudjic,


Sympathy

“The hard part wasn’t breaking up. The hard part is forcing myself to fall out of love with you.”

―

Dominic Riccitello

“Ran out of things to say, metaphors for you. Why the ocean’s clear instead of blue, why mountains in the distance had reminded me of you.”

―

Dominic Riccitello

“One day I won’t be in love with you, I’ll just love you and the occasional thought of you might cross my mind, but it’ll be bittersweet.”

―

Dominic Riccitello

“Loving you was easy. Hating you was hard. Falling out was insane.”

―

Dominic Riccitello

“When she had thus for a while struck the flint on her heart without getting a spark, incapable, moreover, of understanding what she did not experience as of believing anything that did not present itself in conventional forms she persuaded herself without difficulty that Charles’s passion was nothing very exorbitant.”

―

Gustave Flaubert,


Madame Bovary

“He was the love of my life, but life moves on.”

―

Dominic Riccitello

“E há poucas coisas mais dolorosas do que perder a intimidade com alguém que se ama. É uma neblina que se põe lentamente e vai esborratando tudo. É uma série de portas que se fecham, de tempos e sítios que já não voltam, e a outra pessoa perde-se de nós.”

―

João Pedro Marques,


A Aluna Americana

“Falling in love is part choice, part fate. But how do you decide when to stop loving someone?”

―

Melanie A. Smith,


All of Me

“Sometimes you don’t know how much you loved someone until you start falling out of love with them. Because you start falling out of love with them in a million different ways, and you go, “Wow, I didn’t even know I loved that person in that way.” And so, a million ways of falling out makes you realize the million ways that you fell in. Then you end up falling in love with those many ways that you’re falling out of love. It’s the worst. You never really escape from that kind of love, do you?”

―

C. JoyBell C.

“It was so awful and weird. I could see all the things I had loved about him, I could see them, but I didn’t love them anymore.”

―

Lily King,


Writers & Lovers

“Si una mujer ofrece la mejilla para que su novio no la bese en la boca, hasta un ciego puede ver que ya no siente amor.”

―

Isabel Allende,


De amor y sombra

“I can’t reconcile who he was, the man who was so kind and loving and considerate, with who he is now. I know the truth is who I’m seeing now, but I keep hoping the former man will come back. It’s like I love someone who doesn’t even exist.”

―

Jacqueline Simon Gunn,


The Cat Who Ate His Tail

“When love goes bad nothing goes worse.”

―

Christopher Hitchens

“I don’t like that falling feels like flying ’til the bone crush”

―

Taylor Swift

“Okay, now imagine I am falling in love with you. Can you picture it? Now picture that backwards.”

―

Joey Comeau

“The thing about truth is that it’s not the same as fact. They’re synonyms but shouldn’t be, Haruka’s realized. Facts just are. Everything adds up, check out. Truth requires faith. It’s personal. It can change. Like with love. One day someone knows they love you—they feel it, they know it’s there—then the next day they don’t. They felt it then they didn’t. It happens. Most people trust truth more than they do facts. This is because people are stupid.”

―

A.D. Aliwat,


In Limbo

“Darling, don’t say it’s me that you love,
But that you love how I make you feel on the weekends.
Don’t say you have to go, admit there’s nothing more to let me know.
Don’t say it was a good movie, tell me that it was a good break.
Don’t say you like her hair, tell me that it’s just different.
Don’t say your father’s evil, tell me that it’s ignorance.
Don’t say you feel like dying, tell me life would be better without bills.
Don’t say you hate crying, but that you hate when they see you ill.
Don’t say you love the winter, tell me you like the gifts.
Don’t say you want a vacation when you really want a kiss.”

―

Karl Kristian Flores,


The Goodbye Song

“I love you. But I’m not in love with you.”
It’s such a cliché I didn’t even really know what it meant. How was in love different from love?”

―

Ciara Smyth,


The Falling in Love Montage

“You stole my heart
You whispered promise
You gave me hope
You left me
You shattered me”

―

Jennifer West,


Jennifer Bares All