23 Quotes When You Know You Should Be With Someone But You Aren't

“So, Amber, you're separated from your mate, huh? I know how you feel. Not that Topanga's my mate or anything, I just believe she is. It's funny, though, you know, when people tell you to get on with your life, go date, there's plenty of other fish in the sea... Like I need to tell you. But, you see,…”

— Ben Savage, Cory Matthews, amazon.com

“Because you aren't just someone I loved back then. You were my best friend, my best self, and I can't imagine giving that up again." He hesitated searching for the right words. "You might not understand, but I gave you the best of me, and after you left, nothing was ever the same.’”

— Nicholas Sparks, amazon.com

“I know you think we can't be together, but can't you respect me enough to let me make my own decision? I know there'll be risks but I want to face them with you. It's wrong that we should be only half alive... half of ourselves. I love you. So here I am - standing in your doorway. I have always been…”

— Kirsten Dunst, Mary Jane Watson, amazon.com

“Lost love is still love. It takes a different form, that’s all. You can’t see their smile or bring them food or tousle their hair or move them around a dance floor. But when those senses weaken another heightens. Memory. Memory becomes your partner. You nurture it. You hold it. You dance with it.”

— Mitch Albom, amazon.com

“I finally understood what true love meant...love meant that you care for another person's happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be.”

— Nicholas Sparks, amazon.com

“I miss you. I sit here lost, genuinely yearning to know what you’re doing and where you are”

— Samantha King, amazon.com

“I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color of forgotten love.”

— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com

“And when one of them meets with his other half, the actual half of himself, whether he be a lover of youth or a lover of another sort, the pair are lost in an amazement of love and friendship and intimacy.”

— Plato, amazon.com

“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.com

“It hurts so terribly, thinking about how I lost you.”

— Ten Word Story, facebook.com

“I wasn't afraid to admit I missed her, and I wasn't afraid to even say that maybe all of this was my fault, that maybe I should have tried a little harder.”

— R.M Drake, amazon.com

“Have you ever lost someone you love and wanted one more conversation, one more chance to make up for the time when you thought they would be here forever? If so, then you know you can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.”

— Mitch Albom, amazon.com

“Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.”

— Milan Kundera, amazon.com

“When the silence gets too loud, and I really start to miss everyone, I tell myself the same thing: I can't see you, but I know you're there.”

— Haley James Scott, amazon.com

“I fell in love with her when we were together, then fell deeper in love with her in the years we were apart.”

— Nicholas Sparks, amazon.com

“Cory: It's an interesting feeling you know? Shawn: What knowing it's over? Cory: Being the only guy in the world who knows it isn't.”

— Ben Savage, Rider Strong, Cory Matthews, Shawn Hunter, amazon.com

“Because fate has a funny way of mending things back together. I mean you are here and I am here, and we'll find each other again, that's is, if that's the way it's suppose to be. so if you believe I believe.”

— R.M Drake, amazon.com

“But if something was really important, fate made sure it somehow came back to you and gave you another chance... Events conspired to bring you back to where you'd been. It was what you did then that made all the difference: it was all about potential.”

— Sarah Dessen, amazon.com

“You've fought for me all year. Now I've come to fight for you. You said I always bet against you. But this time I'm all in.”

— Leighton Meester, Blair Waldorf, youtube.com

“Was it everything you wanted to find? And did you miss me while you were looking for yourself out there?”

— Train, youtube.com

“Sometimes you can't explain what you see in a person. It's just the way they take you to a place where no one else can.”

— Unknown, pinterest.com

“The first time I saw you, my heart whispered, 'that's the one.'”

— Unknown, pinterest.com

“You don't give up on the people you love.”

— Peter Elkoff, Chuck Bass, Ed Westwick, imdb.com