Six-Word Memoirs on Love and Heartbreak

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Six-Word Memoirs on Love and Heartbreak, A Valentine's Treat For You and Your Loved Ones

If you enjoyed the book Not Quite What I was Planning: Six Word Memoirs from Writers Famous and Obscure and, even if you have not seen it, you are going to love Six-Word Memoirs on Love and Heartbreak: by Writers Famous and Obscure from the people at SMITH Magazine. This little book from HarperPerennial was released just in time for Valentine's Day. It is a pocket-sized volume with 500 six-word memoirs on love from regular readers like you and I and from famous people like Dr. Drew Pinsky, Marc Ecko, Robert Hass, Janice Dickinson, Elizabeth Gilbert, Armistead Maupin and more.

On this page you will find some of the lovely quotes from Six-Word Memoirs on Love and Heartbreak and some beautiful pictures from the amazing photographers on Flickr. I hope you will enjoy my Valentine's Day gift to you.

To see what the Squidoo community had to say to sum up their life story in six words, read Your Life Sentence ~~ Six-Word Memoirs or Quotations, a September, 2008, Lens of the Day.

Photo by www.jonSpotphotography.com.

Six-Word Memoirs on Love and Heartbreak: by Writers Famous and Obscure

Edited by SMITH Magazine

This book celebrates the
"warm and fuzzy
and cold and hard and bitter
and sweet and euphoric
and torturous world of the
hopelessly romantic heart."
~~ jaced.com

A kiss can write a secret.
- Annmarie Howell

It never hurt as good again.
- Marc Ecko

Found true love; married someone else.

Butterflies still kicking after ten years.
- Lisa Taylor

Six-Word Memoirs on Love & Heartbreak YouTube Video Trailer or Preview

Yes, this video is beautiful and moving and touching and funny and cute. In this case, a picture is worth six words, not a thousand!

 

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People can't want what they want.
- Dr. Drew Pinsky

Will always follow you. On Twitter.
- Mircea Lungu

May I have the last dance?
- Robert Hass

Six-Word Memoirs on Love and Heartbreak Blogs

SMITH Magazine Presents SIX WORD STORY SHOW, 2/14
... ends with a 'Six-Word Slam' in which anyone in the audience can share six words on love, heartbreak, or any part of life. Rachel Shukert is a playwright, novelist and author, most recently of the bestselling memoir, Everything Is Going To Be Great.
Goings On About Town Readings and Talks
... presents Paul Miller (aka DJ Spooky), Saïd Sayrafiezadeh, Rachel Shukert, Robin Gelfenbien, Mark Lukach, Shubha Bala, and other writers and performers, who will deliver six-word memoirs that unfold into six-minute stories about love and heartbreak.

Never should have bought that ring.

She kissed me and said yes.

Married Russian. Brush teeth with vodka.

just married
Photo by hireen.

Link To Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure

(My page about the first book in this series.)

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"Brilliant in their brevity, these insightful slivers of passion, pain, and connection capture every shade of love and loss-six words at a time."
~~ SMITH Magazine

Dance in Red
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Who Would You Like To Send Your Love To?

I hope you have enjoyed this peek into the new book Six-Word Memoirs on Love and Heartbreak: by Writers Famous and Obscure. Let me know what you think of it and who you will be remembering to give your love to (in six words!)

My anniversary is tomorrow; we were married on January 14th, 1989. That is twenty years for us! That deserves some special thought and a return visit to add my own love story in six words!

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"Lucky in love, I have been."
"One wonderful man, over twenty years." What is your six-word memoir on love and heartbreak? ~~ Brenda
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