“There had been too much emotion, too much damage, too much everything.”— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com
“I was glad I wasn’t in love, that I wasn’t happy with the world. I like being at odds with everything. People in love often become edgy, dangerous. They lose their sense of perspective. They lose their sense of humor. They become nervous, psychotic bores. They even become killers.”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“I loved a man who had opened up a world to me but hadn’t loved me enough to stay in it.”— Jojo Moyes, amazon.com
“Some nights, I wake up knowing he is anxious. He is across the world in another woman's arms and the years have spread us like dandelion seeds, sanding down the edges of our jigsaw parts that used to only fit each other.”— Sarah Kay, amazon.com
“I get you, you don’t know how you feel. well, I will tell you this: the world doesn’t make much sense without the people you love.”— R. M. Drake, twitter.com
“I envy the cup of coffee that gets to kiss your sleepy lips awake every cold and bitter morning.”— Sade Andria Zabala, sadeandriazabala.com
“Kiss me until I forget how terrified I am of everything wrong with my life.”— Beau Taplin, afadthatlastsforever.tumblr.com
“No, I do not want to be loved unconditionally. I want to be shown when I am treating you less than you deserve. I want you to leave if I ever start making you promises I do not see through. Love me for my flaws, yes, but don’t you dare ever allow them to hurt you.”— Beau Taplin, afadthatlastsforever.tumblr.com
“Once, I believed in you like a poem, turned your heart into a metaphor for my heart, turned our mouths into honey and caramel lozenges. But metaphors come and metaphors go, and not even seasons have the courtesy to stay till dawn.”— Shinji Moon, amazon.com
“I certainly do care for you...less than you are always thinking and much more than you are ever knowing.”— Gertrude Stein, amazon.com
“I kissed her neck and shoulders. I felt faint with loving her so much.”— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com
“Oh, tell me now, where was my fault In loving you with my whole heart”— Mumford & Sons, open.spotify.com
“...it's always harder to be the one who's left behind than the one who leaves.”— Tamara Ireland Stone, amazon.com
“I want to know someone. Really know someone. And I think I want that person to be you, even if you leave.”— Kiera Cass, amazon.com
“The first night living together, we piled our suitcases in the corner; warmed up a frozen pizza, and sat crisscross applesauce under a broken coffee table, drank water in paper cups, and tried to imagine how our lives would grow within these walls. We were two lovers living on the floor, bare rooms…”— Schuyler Peck, schuylerpeck.tumblr.com
“You don’t destroy people you care about. That’s not how it works, that should never be an option.”— R. M. Drake, twitter.com
“she asked ‘you are in love what does love look like’ to which i replied 'like everything i’ve ever lost come back to me’”— Nayyirah Waheed, amazon.com