When we give our heartbreak to God, he fashions it into a softer and even more loving heart."~R. Alan Woods [2013]

Listening to Led Zeppelin's Heartbreaker while reading your own book, sipping a beer after midnight, is a satisfying feeling...however fleeting.

“Sometimes it takes a heartbreak to shake us awake & help us see we are worth so much more than we're settling for.”

I could feel my insides sink. My knees too. So I sat on the ground, against the wall, letting it support me. I thought I knew what heartbreak felt like. I thought heartbreak was me, standing alone at the prom. That was nothing. This, this was heartbreak. The pain in your chest, the ache behind your eyes. The knowing that things will never be the same again. It’s all relative, I suppose. You think you know love, you think you know real pain, but you don’t. You don’t know anything.

“History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.”

“I think it would be not very efficient and heartbreaking, maybe, to identify a child [with the gene gap] and then not have a policy set in place to do the early intervention.”

“We had it in the palm of our hands, and we let it slip away. It's heartbreaking, but there is an upside. This was the best football we've played all season.”

“Nicotine addiction is such a powerful force that even the heartbreak of watching a family member die of lung cancer often isn't enough to convince smokers to quit.”

I tried cutting myself to express my heartbreak over Tommy (Lord Flood) rejecting me, but OMFG it hurts like flaming fuck.

“This is a terribly sad, heartbreaking day in Arizona women's basketball. I can't put into words the pain and sadness that we're all feeling right now.”