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18 OF THE MOST POWERFUL QUOTES ON HEARTBREAK IN LITERATURE

The Remains of the Day- Kazuo Ishiguro 

“Indeed — why should I not admit it? — in that moment, my heart was breaking.”- Stevens

Gone with the Wind- Margaret Mitchell 

“If I said I was madly in love with you you’d know I was lying.”- Scarlett O'Hara

A Tale of Two Cities- Charles Dickens 

“Remember now and then that there is a man who would die to keep someone you love beside you.”- Sydney Carton

The Great Gatsby- F. Scott Fitzgerald 

“Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther… . And then one fine morning

— So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. ”- Nick Carraway

Little Women- Louisa May Alcott 

“I did fail, say what you will, for Jo wouldn’t love me.”- Laurie Laurence

Memoirs of a Geisha- Arthur Golden 

“The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves until one day there are none. No hopes. Nothing remains.”- Chiyo Sakamoto

Twelfth Night- William Shakespeare 

“If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.”- Duke Orsino

Love in the Time of Cholera- Gabriel Garcia Marquez 

“But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for hiding the torments of love.”- Florentino Ariza

The Wise Man’s Fear- Patrick Rothfuss 

“I thought of all the others who had tried to tie her to the ground and failed. So I resisted showing her the songs and poems I had written, knowing that too much truth can ruin a thing. And if that meant she wasn’t entirely mine, what of it? I would be the one she could always return to without fear of recrimination or question. So I did not try to win her and contented myself with playing a beautiful game. But there was always a part of me that hoped for more, and so there was a part of me that was always a fool.”- Kvothe

The Hunger Games- Suzanne Collins 

“You don’t forget the face of the person who was your last hope.”- Katniss Everdeen

Wuthering Heights- Emily Bronte 

“You loved me-then what right had you to leave me? What right-answer me-for the poor fancy you felt for Linton? Because misery and degradation, and death, and nothing that God or Satan could inflict would have parted us, you, of your own will, did it. I have not broken your heart- you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine.“- Heathcliff

Venetia- Georgette Heyer 

“There is nothing so mortifying as to fall in love with someone who does not share one’s sentiments.”- Mrs Hendred

Jane Eyre- Charlotte Bronte 

"I was actually permitting myself to experience a sickening sense of disappointment: but rallying my wits, and recollecting my principles, I at once called my sensations to order; and it was wonderful how I got over the temporary blunder–how I cleared up the mistake of supposing Mr. Rochester’s movements a matter in which I had any cause to take vital interest.”- Jane Eyre

Anna Karenina- Leo Tolstoy 

“Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand.“- Anna Karenina

Like Water for Chocolate- Laura Esquivel 

“When you’re told there’s no way you can marry the woman you love and your only hope of being near her is to marry her sister, wouldn’t you do the same?”- Pedro Muzquiz

The Notebook- Nicholas Sparks                                                      "The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected.”

The Time Traveler’s Wife- Audrey Niffenegger 

“I won’t ever leave you, even though you’re always leaving me.”- Clare Abshire

Atonement- Ian McEwan                                                                 “He knew these last lines by heart and mouthed them now in the darkness. My reason for life. Not living, but life. That was the touch. And she was his reason for life, and why he must survive.”

The language of flowers..

Polite Society at Home and Abroad, 1891

warning, it’s long, but there’s a lot of really great specifics, like:

you are a fop good but odd you will cause my death I declare war against you intellectual but heartless false and gay handsome but dangerous your looks freeze me an enemy in disguise

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Coincidentally, I’m good writing stories and writing. At first, I thought I was the only one who thinks writing is like drawing and drawing is like writing. I’m glad I’m not the only one :)

Do you have any tips on writing really great mutual pining? It's a pretty big part of my next fic but I can't seem to get the emotions across in my writing ;-;

Plotting Great Romance

While “pining” implies an almost lack of romance, I still think the same goals of writing a great romance apply. You develop each of the two characters separately, and you develop a basic story for each of them separately, and then you see what happens when you bring them together. Think of it like clapping - each hand is capable of accomplishing a lot on its own, but when you slap your hands together, it creates a unique sound that one hand cannot produce on its own.

You could plot out the scenes/tension/suspense between them before developing each individual character, but I think it can be more challenging that way. So I would try to imagine the backstory, the characteristics, the wants, the needs, the goals, the motivations, the quirks, the interests…figure out who each of these characters is first.

Once you have that, you can start to think about how each character affects the other. What new characteristics do each bring out in the other? Are they good or bad? What ways do they challenge each other? What impact does each one have in the other’s life? Don’t think in terms of romance at this point. Just imagine your characters together, and imagine them separately. What’s the difference? What aspects of their personality do they suppress around the other and which ones do they set free?

Then, consider what qualities they each admire in the other. Why does each of them like being around the other? And counterpoint - what things frustrate them about the other?

When it comes to pining…

…make the reasons behind their unrequited romance good. A reader can quickly get frustrated by two characters who are simply too shy to admit their true feelings, or too naive to recognize chemistry and affection that is obviously mutual.  This is easier than you think. Imagine what obstacles a relationship between them might have, and then have your character foresee this obstacle as too troublesome to deal with.

For example, in a Romeo/Juliet type storyline, two characters might pine for the other but fail to act on their feelings due to family expectations. An artist might never pursue art because their parents expect them to be a doctor, just like a person may not pursue another romantically because their parents wouldn’t approve. 

Geography might be another potential obstacle. Two characters that meet unexpectedly while on vacation may hit it off, but knowing they each live on separate coastlines, they anticipate a stressful long-distance relationship and hold back on confessing feelings. 

An existing relationship is a big one - a character might not feel fully committed to their current partner, but their partner has never treated them poorly and for all intents and purpose, they seem perfect for each other. So they hold back feelings for another person because they don’t want to hurt the person they’re currently with, who they do still care about deeply. Their life might also be comfortable with this person, or even well established, with a nice home and kids, and not wanting to hurt your children with a divorce is a big reason someone might hold back on feelings for someone else. 

Basically, you need to consider what is stopping each character from confessing their feelings. Fear of rejection is implied - there needs to be more than that in order to carry mutual pining for an entire novel. There need to be other obstacles, and they need to be ones that your characters can predict, and ones they care about. 

Let me put it much more simply. Instead of each character asking, “What if they don’t love me back?” have them ask, “What if they do love me back?” And consider what the answer to that question is. Once these feelings are requited, what are the consequences?  What is each character afraid of? 

So I think that would be my biggest suggestion - make their hesitations be about more than rejection. And when it comes to describing their emotions, don’t try too hard. Tell your story, and see what emotions naturally unfold. We convey emotion by putting ourselves into the shoes of our characters and imagining how it might make us feel. I think once you have the story well plotted and the characters well developed, it’ll become easier to describe what each of them is feeling. 

Good luck!

-Rebekah

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FIRST! The inner flap:

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i just have a lot of feelings about this book and think everyone should own it

danganronpa v3 chapter 1 in a nutshell

It’s always nice being wanted. Even if it’s by the wrong person.

Tabitha Suzuma, Forbidden (via books-n-quotes)

Me too... :(

You asked the wrong person

just a little morning practice 

Was kind of scared to post this bc I didn’t like how it turned out but anyways

Attempt 2 of kazuha in the demon slayer manga art style