The stupid thing about anger is how people hurt you and then you let them keep hurting you by being angry about how they originally hurt you. It’s a vicious cycle.

- - Susane Colasanti, So Much Closer - - 

The wicked thing is, that when we’re really upset, we always take it out on the people who are closest and whom we love the most.

- - Rosamunde Pilcher, Winter Solstice - -

I stood still, vision blurring, and in that moment, I heard my heart break. It was a small, clean sound, like the snapping of a flower’s stem.

- - Diana Gabaldon, Dragonfly in Amber - -

That was what I feared most: that he just wasn’t excited about us anymore—that something between us had altered irreversibly. And afterward, I started seeing the evidence everywhere: in the way he didn’t sleep facing me anymore, or the way he’d stopped asking me the questions he used to need to know the answers to, the way he stopped needing to tell me things in order for them to count.

 - - Laura Dave, London Is the Best City in America - 

“The thing about loving someone, is that yelling at them only feels good while you’re doing it — as soon as they’re gone, all you want to do is take it all back.”

- - Lauren Barnholdt, Getting Close - -