Ashes Quote by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

She felt so old, so worn out, so far away from the best moments of her life that she even yearned for those that…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“The sobs tearing through her were catharsis. Painful and messy, shredding her heart—and leaving a blissful sort of peace in their wake. But not…

— Kit Rocha

“She could stand to think that life’s experiences, good and bad, died with the body, but she couldn’t bear to believe that the dreams…

— Jill Ciment

Her heart was heavy because it was open, and so things filled it, and so things rushed out of it, but still the heart…

— Helen Oyeyemi

She cried like a person whose heart is broken and wondered how, when two people loved each other, there could be such a broken…

— Kristin Cashore

“Her heart did not want to give up this burden, painful though it was ... The crushing pain in her chest was all she…

— Rosslyn Elliott

Her future, she thought, was likely to be worse than her past, for after her years of contented renunciation, she had slipped back into…

— George Eliot

“Sometimes she felt that her heart would ssurely break. But she knew that hearts did not literally break because their owners were unhappy -…

— Mary Balogh

That initial anger she had felt turned to sadness, and now it had become something else, almost a dullness of sorts. Even though she…

— Nicholas Sparks

“[She] had heard it said that there was only one emotion which, in recollection, was capable of resurrecting the full immediacy and power of…

— Laini Taylor

Her heart was broken perhaps, but it was a small inexpensive organ of local manufacture. In a wider and grander way she felt things…

— Evelyn Waugh

...there was cement in her soul. It had been there for a while, an early morning disease of fatigue, shapeless desires, brief imaginary glints…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie