“There ain’t no way you can hold onto something that wants to go, you understand? You can only love what you got while you got it.”— Kate DiCamillo, amazon.comTagged: Love, Leaving, Saying Goodbye, Holding On, Relationships
“You could come knocking on my door five years from now and I would open my arms wider and say ‘come here, it’s been too long, it felt like home with you.’”— Azra T., 5000letters.tumblr.comTagged: Love, Timing, Lost Love, Relationships, Moving On
“I’m going to find a way to be happy, and I’d really love to be happy with you, but if I can’t be happy with you, then I’ll find a way to be happy without you.”— Randy Pausch, goodreads.comTagged: Happiness, Love, Self-Sufficiancy, Being Alone, Alone
“I like to think that somewhere out there, on a planet exactly like ours, two people exactly like you and me made totally different choices and that somewhere, we're still together. That's enough for me.”— Iain Thomas, amazon.caTagged: Choices, Decisions, Love, Alternate Universes, Other Lives
“If I never love anyone again the way I have loved you, he said, it will be a relief.”— M.Hollow (@miahollow), instagram.comTagged: Love, Loss, Pain, Change
“We have all hurt someone tremendously, whether by intent or accident. We have all loved someone tremendously, whether by intent or accident. It is an intrinsic human trait, and a deep responsibility, I think, to be an organ and a blade. But, learning to forgive ourselves and others because we have n…”— Nayyirah Waheed, Warsan Shire, kepthoney.comTagged: Pain, Love, Mistakes, Making Mistakes, hurt
“In the unlikely event that I don't get the privilege of growing old with you, if we don't get that chance. If the universe conspires against us and the oceans stand in our way. If the fates betray us and our story fades. I will settle for one minute, a few moments, a fleeting second, just to know yo…”— Mia Hollow, miahollow.tumblr.comTagged: Love, Fate, Loss, Temporary
“The people who could not love us back were never meant to.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.comTagged: Love, Unrequited Love, Heartbreak, Destiny
“I don't think there are people crueler to one another more than people who really, really love each other. They see so much of themselves in one another that they simply cannot stand it and retaliate in all the same ways they are rejecting themselves!”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.comTagged: Love, Blame, Relationships, Cruelty
“It's Paradise, but we can't get out of it. And anything you can't get out of is Hell.”— Margaret Atwood, amazon.comTagged: Paradise, Hell, Torture, Being Stuck, Love
“We love each other, that’s true whatever it means, but we aren’t good at it; for some it’s a talent, for others only an addiction.”— Margaret Atwood, amazon.comTagged: Love, Addiction, Relationships
“What we share may be a lot like a traffic accident but we get one another. We are survivors of each other. We have been shark to one another, but also lifeboat. That counts for something.”— Margaret Atwood, amazon.comTagged: Love, Co-dependency, Relationships, Exes, Ex-Lovers
“Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. It's like the tide going out, revealing whatever's been thrown away and sunk: broken bottles, old gloves, rusting pop cans, nibbled fishbodies, bones. This is the kind of thing you see if you sit in the darkness with o…”— Margaret Atwood, amazon.comTagged: Love, Loving People, Future, Life, Confusion
“I laughed and said, Life is easy. What I meant was, Life is easy with you here, and when you leave, it will be hard again.”— Miranda July, amazon.comTagged: Life, Difficulty, Struggle, Love
“We had fallen in love; that was still true. But given the right psychological conditions, a person could fall in love with anyone or anything.”— Miranda July, amazon.comTagged: Love, Falling In Love, Relationships
“What was the lifespan of these improbable loves? An hour. A week. A few months at best. The end was a natural thing, like the seasons, like getting older, fruit turning. That was the saddest part—there was no one to blame and no way to reverse.”— Miranda July, amazon.comTagged: Love, Relationships, Affairs, Improbable Love
“Sometimes I looked at her sleeping face, the living flesh of it, and was overwhelmed by how precarious it was to love a living thing. She could die simply from lack of water. It hardly seemed safer than falling in love with a plant.”— Miranda July, amazon.comTagged: Love, Living, humanity, The Human Condition
“It sucks to have this one person in your life that can derail you at a moment’s notice. But in a way, it feels good knowing that you could ever love someone so much. Or that’s what you tell yourself anyway. It doesn’t matter if something is true or not. The things we tell ourselves can become our tr…”— Ryan O'Connell, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Love, Life, Relationships, Truths, Exes
“You’ll always care about your first love. That doesn’t make you crazy, it just makes you human. When relationships end, it’s not so cut and dry. You carry everyone you’ve ever loved into every relationship thereafter.”— Ryan O'Connell, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Relationships, Love, First Love, Falling In Love
“Love will make you into the best and worst version of yourself, often in the same night.”— Ryan O'Connell, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Love, Relationships
“Everyone is an idiot when it comes to matters of the heart. Love is the great equalizer. Whenever you feel intimidated by someone’s coolness, just imagine them sobbing in their bedroom after someone broke their heart. I guarantee it’s happened.”— Ryan O'Connell, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Love, Relationships, Heartbreak, Heartache
“You will never love someone quite the same way you do the first time. In most cases, this is a good thing. The first time is fucking insane.”— Ryan O'Connell, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Love, First Love, Relationships, Falling In Love
“It’s so painful to have loved someone once and then never again. Sometimes you’ll wish it never happened just so you didn’t know how good it felt. Then you remember that quote ‘It’s better to have loved and lost than to have ever loved at all’ and you’re like, ‘okay, fine.'”— Ryan O'Connell, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Love, humor, Breakups, Pain, Relationships
“Just because we can’t be together doesn’t mean I don’t love you.”— Blair Waldorf, amazon.comTagged: Relationships, Love, Exes
“People don’t write sonnets about being compatible, or novels about shared life goals and stimulating conversation. The great loves are the crazy ones.”— Blair Waldorf, amazon.comTagged: Love, Relationships, Falling In Love, Big Love, Compatibility
“I really care about you and I don’t want to anymore, because it feels really shitty for me.”— Lena Dunham, Hannah Horvath, amazon.comTagged: Love, Relationships, Breakups, Girls
“People aren’t always what you want them to be. Sometimes they disappoint you or let you down, but you have to give them a chance first. You can’t just meet someone and expect them to be everything you’re looking for and then be angry when they’re not every hope and aspiration you projected onto them…”— Chloe Rattray, amazon.comTagged: Expectations, INFP, Love, People, Relationships
“The future is scary, but you can't just run back to the past because it's familiar.”— Robin Scherbatsky, amazon.comTagged: Future, Past, Comfort, Love, Familiarity
“You can't love anything more than something you miss.”— Jonathan Safran Foer, amazon.comTagged: Love, Missing Someone, Relationships, Long-Distance, Grief