“Heartbreak hurts, no matter how long you were with someone, no matter if you were dating or not. Once your heart is invested, it hurts when it ends.”— Becca Martin, thoughtcatalog.com
“You try to act like you’re not hurt, you secretly hope he’s going to realize he messed up and you’ll take him back. But he doesn’t come back; in fact he barely even looked back at the wreck he left behind because to him it wasn’t a big deal. To him you weren’t really dating so why should it matter t…”— Becca Martin, thoughtcatalog.com
“If this constant bitter disappointment was love, then I was perfectly fine not to have anything to do with it.”— Vann Chow, amazon.com
“Trying to change someone to suit your desires is a setup for disappointment.”— Carlos Wallace, amazon.com
“We met each other when we were young, before we knew enough about disappointment, and once we did we found we reminded each other of it.”— Nicole Krauss, amazon.com
“I knew what happened when you let yourself get close to someone, when you started to believe they loved you: you'd be disappointed. Depend on someone, and you might as well admit you're going to be crushed, because when you really needed them, they wouldn't be there.”— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com
“Women are as shallow as men when it comes to appearance, and they should focus on their own accomplishments. If women want an accomplished guy, that’s going to come with being accomplished.”— Elizabeth McClintock, theatlantic.com
“Sometimes you hear that really nice guys get hot girls. But I found that really nice guys get really nice girls. Being nice is not really buying you any currency in the attractiveness realm. If the guys are hot, too, then sure, they can get a hot girl.’”— Elizabeth McClintock, theatlantic.com
“these days, I fear mediocrity will show up to drinks and I’ll have to entertain it for two hours.”— Ari Eastman, thoughtcatalog.com
“If doing things with me is too much for you I don’t want you in my life.”— Becca Martin, thoughtcatalog.com
“Love shouldn’t make you question yourself. And you deserve to know that. You deserve a chance to find that out.”— Ari Eastman, thoughtcatalog.com
“A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her criticism, and drinks her tea, this by no means signifies that he respects her opinions or admires her understanding.”— Virginia Woolf, amazon.com
“A busy, vibrant, goal-oriented woman is so much more attractive than a woman who waits around for a man to validate her existence”— Mandy Hale, amazon.com