Heart Wrenching Quotes

“Hours passed—or maybe days. It didn’t matter. The body adapted. But the mind—
The mind needed purpose.
      ”
― D.L. Maddox, THE DOG WALKER: THE PREQUEL

“I've always felt like once someone sees me deep down, that's it. There's something ugly in there, or unlovable, and you're the only person who's ever made me feel like I'm okay.”
― Emily Henry, People We Meet on Vacation

“On the outside she looked like a sexy young woman, on the inside he was a destroyed young man”
― Edward Williams, Framed & Hunted: A True Story of Occult Persecution

“Peter the pedo killer and I spent a couple of days touring pharmacies”
― Edward Williams, Framed & Hunted: A True Story of Occult Persecution

“Does it take the harsh light of disaster to show a person’s true nature?”
― Jean-Dominique Bauby

“It was odds on they would find out one of the team had escaped the blast, and it wouldn’t be long before they knew which one. Then they would come looking for him.
And Conor intended they should find him.”
― Michael Parker, The Eagle's Covenant

“The fourth man in the terrorist team was Conor Lenihan. Conor had been born in Catholic Belfast and brought up in the sectarian ways of his peers.”
― Michael Parker, The Eagle's Covenant

“Damn it! Are you so stupid you don't know what I'm going to do to you?"
Her eyes bore into his without flinching.
"Are you so stupid you haven't figured out yet that it doesn't matter?”
― Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Dream a Little Dream

“His dark hair was tousled from the wind, the
kind of mess that looked accidental but somehow perfect.”
― D.L. Maddox, THE DOG WALKER: SECRETS: A PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER

“She reached into the pocket of her dress and threw the small stack of bills at him. They fluttered to the ground like broken dreams. "I hope you choke on
every penny."
"Pick that up."
She drew back her arm and slapped him as hard as she could.”
― Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Dream a Little Dream

“So, everything that’s happened, that’s just the way life is, and it’s never going to be the way you think you want it. I’m not embarrassed about my brother, but I just don’t want to relive it, because people ask, “Oh, where’s your brother, what’s he doing?” and I have to say I don’t know, I haven’t seen him in over 30 years.”
― Nicole Morris, Vanished: True Stories from Families of Australian Missing Persons

“Fate was a reality, but it wasn’t a beautiful or angelic thing. It was a heart-wrenching nightmare. And we’d fallen blindly into it. We had no escape. It was happening, and it was up to me to guarantee our survival of it. (Eric)”
― Shannon A. Thompson, Minutes Before Sunset

“Sometimes as a family we don’t like to talk about it because all this stuff is going through our heads about what could have happened to him. It upsets us because we didn’t want him to suffer. We just want to be told, you know, he died…”
― Nicole Morris, Vanished: True Stories from Families of Australian Missing Persons

“Guests began drifting toward the edge of the lawn.
Jane heard the shift around her as someone whispered,
“Graham’s here.”
― D.L. Maddox, THE DOG WALKER: SECRETS: A PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER

“I pushed until I felt his [Donovan's] body grow still, the tendons in his neck relaxing. I pushed until I felt the mouth beneath the pillow droop, one last dull groan fading into silence. And I kept pushing, because I couldn't bear to pull the pillow away to see what I'd done.

"You're free," I said. I closed my eyes, saw Donovan as he had been. One last smile, then he faded.”
― Alexander Gordon Smith, Solitary

“My personal theory is that one of you, me, is always faulty, like a toy purchased without the batteries. It is not until you have had time to go out and buy batteries, to put them in, to turn it on, that you realise it doesn't work the way that you wanted. Doesn't match what you hoped for. It never did.

I am a bright, broken thing that he lost the receipt for.”
― Katie Hall-May, Memories of a Lost Thesaurus

“I can hear my mom.
I can hear her take a deep breath. I hear her pushing words out, and I can almost see her, for a second, the look on her face, her hand pressed to her own heart, the other in a fist.
"You can go if you have to go," my mom says, and her voice shakes, but she's solid. She says it again, so I'll know. "You can go if you have to go, okay, baby? Don't wait for me. I love you, you're mine, you'll always be mine, and this is going to be okay, you're safe, baby, you're safe-"
...And after that? There's nothing.”
― Maria Dahvana Headley, Magonia

“Reunion will come.”
― Atsuko Asano

“There is nothing more heart wrenching than morning an individual who is still alive. "
by Ms. Bonnie Zackson Koury”
― Bonnie Zackson Koury

“A woman can be strong but lack the willpower to carry her to greater heights. She can also be weak, but with iron fists held out in front of her.”
― Shari J. Ryan, The Maid's Secret

“He’s speaking nonsense, and his portrayal of my life—my past—is something he has conjured up like a fairy tale. The life he dreams of is one I’ve run away from. Only a stupid man would run toward the shadows of my past, and he’s anything but senseless.”
― Shari J. Ryan, The Maid's Secret

“Ben is everything that is wrong with my world, and I know well enough to walk away from temptation.
”
― Shari J. Ryan, The Maid's Secret

“You get to miss him, but please don't stop living.”
― Mia Sheridan, Archer's Voice

“I had never been able to give any of them enough enough time, enough love. Everyone gave up so much trying to get more from me, and now I did the same for them. From the moment I was old enough to understand my eventual fate, I made every decision knowing this. Knowing that I couldn't be enough. Knowing that I would wither too fast, like a flower in an early frost.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Six Scorched Roses

“Hungary!" Esther shouted. "That's where Mr. Mendel's son is! That's what he was trying to tell us."
"That must have been what upset him," Penny said.
"Hitler is just like Haman. He hates the Jewish people. But who will be Queen Esther? Who will stop him this time?"
She saw Peter writing something. He held it up for her to see. Daddy will.”
― Lynn Austin, While We're Far Apart:

“It’s a school-turned-infirmary filled with wounded bodies and souls and lives, and yet there are people so full of bravery and hope and determination it makes you hold a mirror to your own self when you’re alone.”
― Rebecca Ross, Divine Rivals

“Effy had once thought her gaze empty, but now she realized that the girl had simply escaped her own body, her spirit wandering elsewhere while Myrddin's camera flashed over her naked breasts.
Effy knew that trick well. It was almost like magic. If you tried hard enough, you could believe yourself out of the cold and banal world.”
― Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning

“Every lemon will bring forth a child and the lemons will never die out.”
― Zoulfah Katouh

“Every lemon will bring forth a child and the lemons will never die out.”
― Zoulfah Katouh, As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow

“In this city, funerals weren’t endings. They were invitations to war.”
― Yarro Rai, Vice and Virtue