“Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.”— Erica Jong, amazon.comTagged: Love, Relationships, Fighting For Love, Taking Risks, Leap of Faith
“Go all the way with it. Do not back off. For once, go all the goddamn way with what matters.”— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.comTagged: inspiration, Self-Doubt, Going All In, Commitment, Choices
“Growing apart doesn’t change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I’m glad for that.”— Ally Condie, amazon.comTagged: Friendship, Love, Relationships, Growing Apart, Memories
“That’s all anyone wants from anyone else; not love itself but the knowledge that love is there. Like new batteries in the flashlight in the emergency kit in the hall closet.”— Jonathan Safran Foer, goodreads.comTagged: Love, Security, Relationships
“At times I hardly can believe in you. Except this ache, this longing in my gut, this emptiness which theorizes you because if there is emptiness this deep,there must be fullness somewhere.”— Erica Jong, amazon.comTagged: Sadness, Pain, Emptiness, Suffering
“It’s just how it is sometimes. Things hurt, and they hurt for a long time. You have to fight back, or it wins.”— Robin Benway, amazon.comTagged: Pain, Heartache, Fighting Back, Suffering, Sadness
“Your soul has fallen to bits and pieces. Good. Rearrange them to suit yourself.”— Hermann Hesse, amazon.comTagged: Pain, Heartache, Sadness, Starting Over, Moving On
“I hope that if alternate universes exist, it will still be you and me in the end. I hope that there will always be an us. In every world, in every story.”— Tina Tran, absentions.netTagged: Love, Relationships, Alternate Universes, Multiverses
“I’m learning persistence and the closing of doors, the way the seasons come and go as I keep walking on these roads, back and forth, to find myself in new time zones, new arms with new phrases and new goals. And it hurts to become, hurts to find out about the poverty and gaps, the widow and the leav…”— Charlotte Eriksson, amazon.comTagged: Love, Change, Dependence, Independence
“We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it.”— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.comTagged: Letting Go, Love, Relationships
“Take me to your trees. Take me to your breakfasts, your sunsets, your bad dreams, your shoes, your nouns. Take me to your fingers.”— Margaret Atwood, amazon.com
“"If I never love anyone again the way I have loved you" he said, "that will be a relief."”— Mia Hollow, twitter.comTagged: Love, Relief, Falling In Love, Falling Out Of Love
“Every love story is a ghost story.”— David Foster Wallace, amazon.comTagged: Love, Love Stories, Nostalgia, Memories, Heartbreak
“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
“What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, amazon.comTagged: Hell, Love, Relationships, Loving, Unable To Love
“Remember how we unhinged? Remember all the names our bodies called each other? Remember how afterwards, the steam rose from us, like a pair of smiling ghosts?”— Cristin O'Keefe, muzzlemagazine.comTagged: Love, Sex, Relationships, Falling In Love, Intimacy
“Wouldn’t it be awful if we fell in love again?”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.comTagged: Love, Relationships, Old Love, Past Loves
“Sometimes it’s 9am on a tuesday morning and you’re standing at the kitchen bench waiting for the toast to pop up And the smell of dusty sunlight and earl gray tea makes you miss them so much you don’t know what to do with your hands.”— Rosie Scanlan, watchkimwritethings.wordpress.comTagged: Love, Missing Someone, Poetry, Breakups, Relationships
“Baby, I have no idea how this will end. Maybe the equator will fall like a hula hoop from the Earth’s hips And our mouths will freeze mid-kiss on our 80th anniversary. Or maybe tomorrow my absolute insanity Combined with the absolute obstacle course of your communication skills Will leave us like a…”— Andrea Gibson, youtube.comTagged: Love, Relationships, Beginnings, Endings, Passion
“In the end, I want my heart to be covered in stretch marks.”— Andrea Gibson, andrewgibby.tumblr.comTagged: Love, Growth, Personal Growth, Growing Through Love, Poetry