French Heartbreak Sayings

#1. Oh, the sweet, painful pleasure of anticipation!

Genevieve Dewey

#2. Nobody wants to tell a truth which harms himself.

Toba Beta

#3. Please, hate me if you have to, never speak to me again, but don't settle for someone you don't love because I hurt you

Katherine Allred

#4. Most of my writer friends are women, and they're all extremely talented, so of course I think the state of contemporary fiction for women is pretty great. Which is to say there is a ton of amazing work out there. These women are writing hard. There's much to be said. We're on it, chief.

Jami Attenberg

#5. Privately, I consider religion to be a load of bollocks, but when you have a sobbing five year old wanting to know what happened to her hamster, you develop an instant belief in anything that dissolves some of the heartbreak off her face.

Tana French

#6. Stuff like Buena Vista Social Club and Fela Kuti were quite a main thing to my childhood. As soon as I reached an age where I realized that Fela was singing in English, when I got past his accent, I loved the rawness of it, and the funk and the rhythm and the melody.

King Krule

#7. To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.

Plato

#8. All the best novels are about one thing: how we go on. The characters must survive the fallout of their own cowardice, folly, denial or misguided passion. They squander what matters most, and still they pick up the pieces.

Julia Glass