“We deserve someone that stays, someone who doesn’t have to think twice about whether we are deserving of their love or not. We deserve someone permanent in the world that is constantly changing.”— Krizzia Paolyn, thoughtcatalog.com
“And then he gives me a smile that just seems so genuinely sweet with just the right touch of shyness that unexpected warmth rushes through me.”— Suzanne Collins, amazon.com
“You know, it's quite a job starting to love somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment, in the very beginning, when you have to jump across a precipice: if you think about it you don't do it. I know I'll never jump again.”— Jean-Paul Sartre, amazon.com
“I don't like to feel so crazy about someone. I don't like to feel like my happiness is so tied up in another person.”— Gabrielle Zevin, amazon.com
“Stay, I said to the cut flowers. They bowed their heads lower. Stay, I said to the spider, who fled. Stay, leaf. It reddened, embarrassed for me and itself. Stay, I said to my body. It sat as a dog does, obedient for a moment, soon starting to tremble. Stay, to the earth of riverine valley meadows,…”— Jane Hirshfield, amazon.com
“Sooner or later, we must all accept the fact that in a relationship, the only person you are dealing with is yourself.”— Iyanla Vanzant, amazon.com
“It sucks that we miss people like that. You think you’ve accepted that someone is out of your life, that you’ve grieved and it’s over, and then bam. One little thing and you feel like you’ve lost that person all over again.”— Rachel Hawkins, amazon.com
“It will always be this way. I stand here scared that you will disappear, scared that you will stay.”— Mark Strand, amazon.com
“...people don't get to choose who they fall in love with. They only get to choose who they stay in love with.”— Colleen Hoover, amazon.com
“You swallowed everything, like distance. Like the sea, like time. In you everything sank!”— Pablo Neruda, amazon.com
“I will bring you happy flowers from the mountains, bluebells, dark hazels, and rustic baskets of kisses. I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.”— Pablo Neruda, amazon.com
“she and I raised a red bonfire wearing out our lips from kissing each other's souls”— Pablo Neruda, amazon.com
“I want to eat the sunbeam flaring in your lovely body, the sovereign nose of your arrogant face, I want to eat the fleeting shade of your lashes, and I pace around hungry, sniffing the twilight, hunting for you, for your hot heart, like a puma in the barrens of Quitratue.”— Pablo Neruda, amazon.com
“Oh the bitten mouth, oh the kissed limbs, oh the hungering teeth, oh the entwined bodies. Oh the mad coupling of hope and force in which we merged and despaired.”— Pablo Neruda, amazon.com
“there is a quality about women who choose men sparingly; it appears in their walk in their eyes in their laughter and in their gentle hearts.”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“Anna: Why do you leave everyone? Why did you let me go? Oliver: Maybe because I... I don't really believe that it's gonna work, and then I make sure that it doesn't work.”— Mike Mills, Anna and Oliver, Mélanie Laurent and Ewan McGregor, amazon.com