“The female doesn't want a rich man or a handsome man or even a poet, she wants a man who understands her eyes if she gets sad, and points to his chest and say : "Here is your home country.”— Nizar Qabbani, middleeasternpoetry.tumblr.com
“I cannot believe her when she says I am beautiful. She cannot want me, not the way I want her. My want is an Empire State Building I monster-climb with her clutched in my fist. They make old, flickering horror movies about the way I look at her mouth.”— Clementine Von Radics, amazon.com
“I did not beg him to stay because I was begging God that he would not leave.”— Warsan Shire, warsanshirepoetryreblogs.tumblr.com
“I want to fall to sleep with you, and I could care less whether it is in layers upon layers of clothing or only our skin– all I really want is to wake up not knowing where I end and you begin.”— Beau Taplin, afadthatlastsforever.tumblr.com
“You wanna know how I got these scars? I ripped every last piece of you out of my smile.”— Rudy Francisco, youtube.com
“Love is when they are willing to give their time for you when they’re extremely busy. Love is teamwork.”— Rayi Noormega, thoughtcatalog.com
“You can decorate absence however you want — but you're still going to feel what's missing.”— Siobhan Vivian, amazon.com
“And most of all, I want to do nothing with you. I want to spend a Sunday at home, me in my corner, you in yours, reading or working or writing, silently in our spaces. I want to be so together that we don’t have to say anything at all, that we can just watch it rain and drink our tea and occasionall…”— Chelsea Fagan, thoughtcatalog.com
“It was rather beautiful: the way he put her insecurities to sleep. The way he dove into her eyes and starved all the fears and tasted all the dreams she kept coiled beneath her bones.”— Christopher Poindexter, goodreads.com
“Because there's nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline, no matter how many times it's sent away.”— Sarah Kay, ted.com
“Only love heals. Anger, guilt, and fear can only destroy and separate you from your true capabilities.”— Alyson Noël, amazon.com
“We can’t be so desperate for love that we forget where we can always find it; within.”— ALEXANDRA ELLE, goodreads.com
“Loving someone means taking the risk that they might f*ck up your nicely ordered little life.”— Mark Haddon, amazon.com