"I am scratching at my consciousness like a bitch with fleas .. I think you'll be greatly pleased to learn that yours was the hardest itch to relieve." - ani difranco, 'itch'
"I could love you, yeah, I've entertained the thought; but I could never like you so I guess I'd better not." - ani difranco, 'used to you'
"you are a china shop, and I am a bull; you are really good food, and I am full." - ani difranco, 'you had time'
"I'm sorry I didn't sound more excited on the phone. I'm sorry that after all these years I've left you feeling unrequited and alone, brought you to tears." - ani difranco, 'sorry i am'
"And I don't know what it is about you; I just know it's not what it was." - ani difranco, 'sorry i am'
"y'know, i don't look forward to seeing you again soon." - ani difranco, 'untouchable face'
"If you ask me, I'll say yes please, to you today. So don't ask me, 'cause I'm weak that way. Just don't ask me, okay? I'm so glad we got that straightened away." -Ani Difranco 'O.K.'
"If you see me walk by, you better just let me walk by. You better not bat your pretty eyes. You better not stop me to say hi." - Ani Difranco 'O.K.'
"Why don't you just take your bow, 'cause who's gonna love you now?" - Ani Difranco 'What How When Where (Why Who)'
"Who are you now and who were you then, that you thought somehow you could just pretend, that you could figure it all out, the mathematics of regret? So it takes two beers to remember now and five to forget, that I loved you so. Yeah, I loved you, so what?" - Ani DiFranco 'So What'
"We met in a dream, we were both 19. I remember where we were standing. I remember how it felt." - Ani Difranco 'Two Little Girls'
"If we weren't so afraid to let go, we wouldn't feel so free when we finally did." - dawson's creek
"I know that things between us are pretty much beyond repair right now. And I wouldn't ever presume to try and make everything better with a conversation, so that's not with this is -- but I just wanted to tell you, I wanted to say about everything that happened last spring... I'm sorry. I'm sorry for my part in it. And I'm sorry for the pain I know it caused you. But mostly I'm sorry because I miss our friendship. And however far off it may be, I look forward to the day that we can be friends again. So, until then…" - dawson's creek
"Something has been taken away from you. You're numb. And you know what? I think you're grateful for it. No wonder you're afraid of ending up alone. Because the day you are, you're going to have to look inside yourself, and see what I've known for a long time. That there's nothing there." - dawson's creek
"There are certain circumstances love can't overcome...this is one of them.. and I don't wanna know you anymore." - dawson's creek
"I think in a way that it's good, ya know? I mean, maybe it's the only way that we can finally stand on our own. Ya know, to hurt each other so much that we have no choice but to let go...Maybe otherwise we never would." - Dawson's Creek
"Because no matter what happens, we can't go back to the way things were." - dawson's creek
"You were never mine to let go of." - Cait
"you may have created my past and screwed up my present, but you have no control over my future." - you don't know me by david klass
"When this is said and done, I really hope you look back and wonder if maybe falling in love with me wasn't such a bad idea."
"All that shit doesn't matter anymore." - Plain White T's
"What would you think of me now? So lucky, so strong, so proud. I never said thank you for that." -Jimmy Eat World
"Somehow I knew this would end." - The Killing Tree
"I'm just another chapter torn out of your book of love. Maybe we were never meant to be happily ever after." - Lost North Star
"I was thinking of all the pain I went through because of you; all the tears I spent crying over you -- just some boy -- but then I got past all of the sadness when I reached a point in my daydreams when I was happy with you; when everything just seemed so right, and then somehow crying didn't seem like such a big consequence for receiving the gift of love."
"And I don't really miss you, I just need to know: Do you ever think of you and I?" - amanda marshall, "beautiful goodbye"
"In these days of no regrets, I keep mine to myself. And all the things we never said, I can say for someone else." - amanda marshall, "beautiful goodbye"
"No connections of the heart; love was glass that broke apart." - amanda marshall, "fall from grace"
"I drove 1000 miles chasing a memory, but all the pieces of what used to be have scattered and all the little things that used to mean so much, I look around me now and see that they don't matter." - amanda marshall, "never said goodbye"
"It was the right train, but I guess we must've been off track. And I've been waiting for so long, but now I know you're never coming back." - amanda marshall, "give up giving on"
"So I'll give up giving in; quit playing this game I can't win." - amanda marshall, "give up giving in"
"But it's too little too late, no going back to the start. You only lose when you hesitate. And now that I would give you my heart, it's too little too late." - amanda marshall, "too little too late"
"Who am I kidding? It wasn't meant to be. But you wanted a believer and I needed to believe." - amanda marshall, "why don't you love me"
"I'm not saying I'm battered and bruised, but I might as well be with the words you used. I believe in myself, that makes me stronger. Things changed and so have I." - jessica andrews, "there's more to me than you"
"We were supposed to wake up one day when we were older, holdin' on forever, but we flew past each other." - jessica andrews, "windows on a train"
"'it's really, truly, genuinely, absolutely over, and i'm sorry that you saw what you saw, but it doesn't mean anything.'" - in her shoes by jennifer weiner
"'you're sorry for what happened. i'm sorry, too.'" - in her shoes by jennifer weiner
"I don't see the point in pretending to be something other than what you are, because if you do, at some point, you're going to have to reveal your true self, and if it's completely different, they're going to run off screaming. But perhaps I'm learning to hold back a little bit, perhaps that's why this isn't hurting so much, or perhaps it's because nick wasn't, isn't, the One, and although I was starting to like him more and more, I suppose deep down I knew I couldn't live his life, and that's why I'm really feeling okay." - Mr. Maybe by Jane Green
"I told you things change. Most of your life, it's been just the two of us. We needed each other.'" - less of a stranger by nora roberts
"I thought our relationship was settled, but in the end, I realized that I was wrong." - The Wedding by Nicholas Sparks
"things have changed. things have moved on. I'm the same man she fell in love with and yet different." - My legendary Girlfriend by Mike Gayle
"'what can you possibly want to say to me? It's over and there's nothing that you can say to change my mind.'" - My legendary Girlfriend by Mike Gayle
"'You know me. I've never regretted anything,' she said, 'and don't think for a minute that I regret ending our relationship. I don't. we were dead. Going nowhere. But if could have my time again I would have never done that to you. You don't need to tell me that you loved me. I always knew it.'" - My legendary Girlfriend by Mike Gayle
"'I think that love's more complicated than we think it is. Sometimes you fall in love with someone that's just no good for you. It's not your fault and in a way it's not their fault either --it just is. And I think that's what happened here." - My legendary Girlfriend by Mike Gayle
"'he was just a guy. Just a guy who thought he meant the world to me and was right. But between grief and nothing, I'd take grief.'" - My legendary Girlfriend by Mike Gayle
"'And then one day I just woke up and said to myself, I can spend the rest of my life mourning his loss or I can get on with my life. Which is what I did.'" - My legendary Girlfriend by Mike Gayle
"He's sweet and caring, but he's a stockbroker and never thinks of his life in terms of metaphors. i don't get that. and it's precisely why we couldn't be in love, not for real. i mean, partly why. and it's what made me doubt he really loved me. how could he, if i didn't love him?" girls' poker night by jill a davis
"somewhere out there there must be a woman meant just for him. and for too long i thought that woman might be me. and that really says more about what an unstable character i am than it says about his peculiarities." - girls' poker night by jill a davis
"Oh, it's evil, babe, the way you let your grace enrapture me. When will you know I'd be insane to ever let that dirty game recapture me?" - Fiona Apple, 'Shadowboxer'