"When you drop a glass or a plate to the ground it makes a loud crashing sound. When a window shatters, a table leg breaks, or a picture falls off the wall, it makes a noise. But as for your heart, when that breaks, it's completely silent. You would think as it's so important it would make the loudest noise in the world or even have some sort off ceremonious sound like the gong of a cymbal or the ringing of a bell. But it's silent and you almost wish there was a noise to distract you from the pain.
If there is a noise, it's internal. It screams and no one can hear it but you. It screams so loudly your ears ring and your head aches. It thrashes around in our chest like a great white caught in the sea, it roars like a mother bear whose cub has been taken. That's what it looks like and that's what is sounds like, a thrashing, panicking, trapped, great big beast, roaring like a prisoner to it own emotions. But that's the tihing about love; no one is untouchable. It's as wild as that, as raw as an open flesh wound exposed to salty sea water, but when it actually breaks, it's silent, your're just screaming on the inside and no one can hear it." by Cecelia Ahern
Yes, this quote comes from the novel I'm reading for my book club, "If You Could See Me Now", she also wrote, under a different name, "PS. I Love You" which was made into a wonderful movie and one other, with "Rose" in the title, can't remember just now.