“I don't ever want to have to depend on a relationship. I want to make sure that I find other things in life that I love besides... love.”— Rihanna, google.com
“We're a mess, and I love that about us. And I don't want to be perfect. I want to be us.”— Justin Lader, Ethan, Mark Duplass, amazon.com
“But love… is more than three words mumbled before bedtime. Love is sustained by action, a pattern of devotion in the things we do for each other every day.”— Nicholas Sparks, amazon.com
“Desire is an appetite, quickly sated. Longing is a wound, an opening in the heart or the spirit. Whatever the cause, whatever the duration, it almost always leaves a scar.”— Philip Sington, amazon.com
“It is, as my therapist says, a study into the metaphysics of absent love.”— John Mayer, rollingstone.com
“The race is on, I'm on your side But hearing you my engines died I'm in the mood for you Or for running away”— Counting Crows, open.spotify.com
“You have to be kind. You have to give it all you got. You have to find people who love you truly and love them back with the same truth.”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com
“Being in love is the worst. I mean it’s the best, but it's so hard and scary to open your heart to someone.”— Amy Poehler, justjared.com
“I hope one day you stop blaming yourself, because it’s not your heart to blame for choosing the wrong person to love, nor is it your brain’s fault for seeing someone as the definition of perfect despite their flaws.”— Dianne Ramos, thoughtcatalog.com
“Everything in me feels fluttering and free, like I could take off from the ground at any second. Music, I think, he makes me feel like music.”— Lauren Oliver, amazon.com
“It's been said that when in love we find it astonishing that it is possible to love someone else so much, because normally we love each other so little.”— David Pearce, hedweb.com
“You are the one girl that made me risk everything for a future worth having.”— Simone Elkeles, amazon.com
“Find someone that will make you love yourself as much as I loved you.”— Have Mercy, open.spotify.com
“A bad love experience is no reason to fear a new love experience.”— Anne Hathaway, marieclaire.co.uk
“I don’t want to enter into a relationship just for the sake of being in a relationship. I want to actually be happy and be one with the person I’m with.”— Katrina Hughes Que, thoughtcatalog.com
“Please take a moment to accept that no matter how much you care for him, how much you want him in your life and how much you want him to want you, it doesn’t mean that he’s the one for you.”— Alyssa Ho, thoughtcatalog.com
“In an age where relationships don’t always last, you still have faith that two people can make it through life together and still be madly in love by the end.”— Grace Eire, littlethings.com
“An old soul will love you openly and proudly, embracing the vulnerability that’s necessary for deep love with grace and passion. You will never experience another love like them.”— Molly Burford, thoughtcatalog.com