“That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfeast cereals based on color instead of taste.”— John Green, amazon.com
“If there is love, smallpox scars are as pretty as dimples. I'll love your face no matter what it looks like. Because it's yours.”— Stephen King, amazon.com
“When somebody else comes along and makes you feel like something special — it’s like catnip. You want more of it. You want to say: ‘Let’s get lunch sometime.’ But in the end, you are what you are no matter how somebody makes you feel. It’s just a feeling.”— Anonymous, facebook.com
“We want something that’s very passionate, or boiling, from the get-go. In the past, people weren’t looking for something boiling; they just needed some water. Once they found it and committed to a life together, they did their best to heat things up. Now, if things aren’t boiling, committing to marr…”— Aziz Ansari, amazon.com
“Asking a new person to go on a romantic outing has never been easy. It means declaring your attraction to someone and putting yourself out there in a huge way, while risking the brutal possibility of rejection -- or, in the modern era, even an unexplained, icy-cold silence.”— Aziz Ansari, amazon.com
“When you’re in your 20s, you change. A lot. I know this sounds ridiculous, but like I’m 26 and whenever I meet someone who’s 22 or 23 — even if I love them — I’m just like, “Go back into the oven because you aren’t done yet.” Three years do make a major difference in your 20s because every year is l…”— Ryan O'Connell, thoughtcatalog.com
“I don’t even want a boyfriend. I just want someone who wants to hang out all the time, and thinks I’m the best person in the world, and wants to have sex with only me.”— Lena Dunham as Hannah Horvath, amazon.com
“You ask everybody you know: How long does it usually take to get over it?There are many formulas. One year for every year you dated. Two years for every year you dated. It's just a matter of will power: The day you decide it's over, it's over.”— Junot Dìaz, amazon.com
“I want someone I can be completely myself around. I want to wake up in the morning, hair all sleepy and messy around my face, makeup off, baggy t-shirt on, and not feel like I have to be anything I’m not.”— Marisa Donnelly, thoughtcatalog.com
“I want you to add to the life I’ve built for myself, not create one for me.”— Ashley Jones, thoughtcatalog.com
“I get way too sensitive when I get attached to someone. I can detect the slightest change in the tone of their voice, and suddenly I’m spending all day trying to figure out what I did wrong.”— Anonymous, humansofnewyork.com
“It's the same old story. Boy finds girl, boy loses girl, girl finds boy, boy forgets girl, boy remembers girl, girls dies in a tragic blimp accident over the Orange Bowl on New Year's Day.”— Frank Drebin, amazon.com
“The only rite of passage more stressful than wedding planning may be canceling a wedding. When a couple decides to break up after the invitations have been sent, the space has been reserved and the honeymoon booked, they face two tasks that can be as horrifying as ending the relationship itself.”— Amy Sohn, mobile.nytimes.com
“If you want stable love, you have to be stable yourself.You have to know what you want from life even if you’re not there, you have to understand what you want out of a relationship even if you’ve never been in one and you have to be consistent with the love you give to others to receive consistency…”— Rania Naim, thoughtcatalog.com
“I am not hungry, but I will eat because my stomach is the kind of empty I can fill.”— Ashe Vernon, latenightcornerstore.com