Heartache Quote by Helen Salter

“I know now that there's a hole inside me. A hole that can't be patched or filled with files or paperwork or legal cases…

— Krysten Ritter

“It is difficult to fill a broken vessel, and impossible to fill a leaking one.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“The still waters Wrap my lips, Eyes, nose and ears, A clear Cellophane I cannot crack.”

— Sylvia Plath

“I used to think healing meant fixing yourself. But maybe it’s just about feeling yourself again. Messy. Leaky. Alive.”

— Bree Penfold

“You can’t fill a hole that doesn’t exist.”

— Karen Maezen Miller

“No hole is deep enough to be unclimbable. Not even the one you dug yourself into. Never give up. On yourself.”

— Vineet Raj Kapoor

“Are you just going to stand there and leak like a broken hourglass?”

— Sofia Samatar

“My skin stayed the same while this difference snuck in through a pore and attached itself to whatever brittle part forms my center.”

— Tayari Jones

“I plugged the hole up with my thumb, so at least I wouldn’t sink. But it was really uncomfortable floating on that lake with…

— Jarod Kintz

“All the waters in the oceans won't fill a bucket with a hole in it”

— Mike Carey

“The swimmer unknowingly skims over a whole buried universe which would frighten him if he looked at it with undersea goggles.”

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

“No matter how deep you swim, you'll never reach the bottom of the love I have for you. It just goes on and on…

— James Hampton