From Wuthering Heights and Little Women, to Gone With the Wind and The Great Gatsby, here are the most gut-wrenching and comforting quotes on heartbreak from books.

20 of the most powerful quotes on heartbreak in literature

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The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro

Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell

A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens

The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald

Little Women - Louisa May Alcott

The Little Mermaid

Memoirs Of A Geisha - Arthur Golden

Twelfth Night - William Shakespeare

Love in the time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The Wise Man’s Fear - Patrick Rothfuss

The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins

Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë

Venetia - Georgette Heyer

Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë

Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

Like Water for Chocolate - Laura Esquivel

The Notebook

The Time Traveller's Wife -  Audrey Niffenegger

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Atonement - Ian McEwan