“One day, whether you are 14, 28 or 65 you will stumble upon someone who will start a fire in you that cannot die. However, the saddest, most awful truth you will ever come to find–– is they are not always with whom we spend our lives.”— Beau Taplin, goodreads.comTagged: Love, Relationships, The One, Falling In Love, Timing
“Perhaps the fact that I chased a boy who ripped me to shreds says a lot more about me than it did about him.”— Michelle K., michellekpoems.tumblr.comTagged: Love, Relationships, Toxic Love, Self-Sabatoge, Self-Esteem
“'All I want is you' is not entirely true. I want so much more, and with you I think I can get it.”— David Levithan, amazon.comTagged: Love, Relationships, Healthy Love, Falling In Love
“Sadness is knowing I cannot stay here forever, no house to be found inside of love. It is nothing but open space, endless sky, shards of sun like rain.”— Stephanie Barelman, hellopoetry.comTagged: Love, Safety, Home, Staying In Love
“I'm not good at relationships I always manage to find the flaws sometimes in others but mostly my own. I foretell the ending then go and create the cause save myself and end up alone.”— David Levithan, amazon.comTagged: Relationships, Sabatoge, Self-Sabatoge, Self-Esteem
“I will love you as a thief loves a gallery and as a crow loves a murder, as a cloud loves bats and as a range loves braes. I will love you as misfortune loves orphans, as fire loves innocence, and as justice loves to sit and watch while everything goes wrong.”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.comTagged: Love, Humour, Relationships, Justice
“I scarcely know where to begin, but love is always a safe place.”— Emily Dickinson, amazon.comTagged: Love, Confusion, Chaos, Beginnings
“Love is not the last room: there are others after it, the whole length of the corridor that has no end.”— Yehuda Amichai, loc.govTagged: Love, Relationships, Breakups, Starting Over, Moving On
“If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we haven’t loved enough.”— Elif Shafak, amazon.comTagged: Love, Change, Letting Love In, Relationships
“‘Well,’ the Goddess said, 'your heart didn’t heal straight the last time it broke. So we’ll break it again and reset it so it heals straight this time.’”— Jane Yolen, amazon.comTagged: Heartbreak, Love, Relationships, Breakups, Starting Over
“I have seen the best of you and the worst of you, and I choose both.”— Sarah Kay, Phil Kaye, youtube.comTagged: Love, Relationships, Perfection, Imperfection, Choosing Love
“Some of the most told stories are the ones that don’t end well, the ones that are beautiful because someone laid it all on the line, was brave and vulnerable and submitted to the human condition. If that’s your story, its time to stop running from it and start taking pride in the fact that you were…”— Brianna Wiest, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Love, Pain, Sadness, Acceptance, Broken Heart
“Sometimes what we want isn’t what’s best for us.”— Abbi Glines, amazon.comTagged: Love, Relationships, Toxic Relationships, Healthy Love, Self-awareness
“What should I do about the wild and the tame? The wild heart that wants to be free, and the tame heart that wants to come home. I want to be held. I don’t want you to come too close. I want you to scoop me up and bring me home at nights. I don’t want to tell you where I am. I want to keep a place am…”— Jeanette Winterson, amazon.comTagged: Free Spirit, Self-Contradictory, ENFP, Wild, Tame
“Well, let it pass, he thought; April is over, April is over. There are all kinds of love in the world, but never the same love twice.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.comTagged: Love, Relationships, Change, Seasons
“I really don’t know what ‘I love you’ means. I think it means ‘don’t leave me here alone’.”— Neil Gaiman, amberkoneval.wordpress.comTagged: Love, Trust, Abandonment, Poetry
“Love doesn’t conquer all. Love ends. And it begins again.”— Dawson Leery, amazon.comTagged: Love, Relationships, Breakups, Getting Back Together, Divorce
“I no longer need you to fuck me as hard as I hate myself. Make love to me like you know I am better than the worst thing I ever did. Go slow. I’m new to this but I have seen nearly every city from a rooftop without jumping. I have realized that the moon did not have to be full for us to love it. We…”— Buddy Wakefield, buddywakefield.comTagged: Love, Sex, Redemption, Self-Concept, Healing
“Happiness is the China shop; love is the bull.”— H.L. Mencken, amazon.comTagged: Love, Relationships, Happiness, Destruction
“When your heart is broken, you plant seeds in the cracks and you pray for rain.”— Andrea Gibson, youtube.comTagged: Love, Pain, Healing, Self-Love, Self-Help
“Hey, wait. Well, love after all is a habit like any other. A habit, maybe. Like any other, no.”— Renata Adler, amazon.comTagged: Love, Relationships, Loving Someone, Habit
“I got lost in him, and it was the kind of lost that’s exactly like being found.”— Claire LaZebnik, amazon.comTagged: Love, Getting Lost, Co-dependency, Relationships, Falling In Love
“Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.”— Bell Hooks, amazon.comTagged: Love, Alone, Introversion, Introspection, Being Happy Alone
“To love again, you must not discard what has happened to you, but take from it the strength you’ll need to carry on.”— Simon Van Booy, amazon.comTagged: Love, Relationships, Falling In Love, strength, Trust
“What if you didn’t run? This one time. What if you stayed, and let love overtake you?”— Dr. Joshua Bennett, twitter.comTagged: Love, Relationships, Taking Chances, Choosing Love, romance
“She stuck a bookmark in my heart and walked away.”— Saul Williams, amazon.comTagged: Love, Memory, Nostalgia, Breakups, Relationships
“People will disappoint you and wrong you, but they will also defend you and fight for you and bowl you over with kindness. We are all such radiant fuckups — we have to remember this and love one another for it. And even when it seems impossible, we have to be good to one another, to extend an open h…”— Cody Gohl, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Relationships, Pain, Trust, Disappointment, Morality
“Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn’t have to invent a thing.”— Jonathan Safran Foer, amazon.comTagged: Love, Imagination, Idealism, Relationships, Home
“One thing I am certain of, I do not want to be betrayed, but that’s quite hard to say, casually, at the beginning of a relationship. It’s not a word people use very often, which confuses me, because there are different kinds of infidelity, but betrayal is betrayal wherever you find it. By betrayal,…”— Jeanette Winterson, amazon.comTagged: Betrayal, Love, Relationships, Trust, Infidelity
“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