The best work is done with the heart breaking, or overflowing.

Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name.

—Mignon McLaughlin

Flesh goes on pleasuring us, and humiliating us, right to the end.

—Mignon McLaughlin

Children lack morality, but they also lack fake morality.

—Mignon McLaughlin

There are now electrical appliances with the main unit so sealed in that it cannot be got at for repair. There have always been human beings like that.

—Mignon McLaughlin

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

—Mignon McLaughlin

Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss contains its own seed—its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

—Og Mandino

Well, you can't have heartbreak without love. If your heart was really broken, then at least you know you really loved him.

—Leila Sales in Past Perfect

There are only so many times you can handle heartbreak with someone before you have to start protecting yourself.

—Molly McAdams in From Ashes

My heart was broken so badly last time that it still hurts. Isn't that crazy? To still have a broken heart almost two years after a love story ends?

—Elizabeth Gilbert in Love