The first boy I fell in love with didn’t know I loved him, but he managed to break my heart anyway.

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HOLLY BLACK, author of White Cat AND The Coldest Girl in Cold Town, out next fall)

Spotted on the back cover of Daniel Handler & Maira Kalman’s Why We Broke Up.

There’s a holiday coming up and even though love is often, well, lovely, we thought it might be worthwhile to highlight a bit of the gloom that can come with falling head over heels. See all entries.

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2.05.2013

When my heart was broken and I was fifteen, I listened to Lou Reed’s Berlin over and over and walked around a lot in the rain while my friends followed me looking worried and imploring me not to do anything stupid. Well, stupider than walking around in the rain, anyway.

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- NEIL GAIMAN, author of The Graveyard Book (amongst other things)

Spotted on the back cover of Daniel Handler & Maira Kalman’s Why We Broke Up.

There’s a holiday coming up and even though love is often, well, lovely, we thought it might be worthwhile to highlight a bit of the gloom that can come with falling head over heels.

See all entries.

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2.04.2013

“…the thing with your heart’s desire is that your heart doesn’t even know what it desires until it shows up.” - Why We Broke Up by Daniel Handler #quote #truthbomb

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2.02.2013

The boy I loved didn’t know I existed. Then again, he was obsessed with Camus, so he didn’t know if any of us existed.

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- DAVID LEVITHAN, coauthor of Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist and Will Grayson, Will Grayson

Spotted on the back cover of Daniel Handler & Maira Kalman’s Why We Broke Up

There’s a holiday coming up and even though love is often, well, lovely, we thought it might be worthwhile to highlight a bit of the gloom that can come with falling head over heels.

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