“Part of falling in love with someone else is also falling in love with yourself.”— Nicola Yoon, amazon.com
“I should let people in. If they leave, they leave. If I break, I break. It happens to everyone. Right?”— Sarah Addison Allen, amazon.com
“What do you want? You can't want to be happy, because that's too easy and too boring. You can't want only to love, because that's impossible. What do you want?”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“You can’t stand treason or cheating. You ban everyone who will do so from your life.”— Samantha King, thoughtcatalog.com
“Having sex with someone you love feels like you’ve ‘found’ something. There’s a real sense of discovering something that was missing before, a completeness that you don’t get from random hookups or even with long term lovers that you’re not in love with.”— Luke, thoughtcatalog.com
“You say ‘I love you’ when you’re having sex, and frequently when you’re not.”— Mathew Guiver, buzzfeed.com
“Women who loved their sexual partners also said they felt less inhibited and more willing to explore their sexuality.”— Rick Nauert, psychcentral.com
“When you’re with the right person, sex won’t be the same twice. Some days, it’ll be rough. Animalistic. And other days you’ll take things slow. You’ll touch each other gently and whisper about your love as you rock back and forth.”— Holly Riordan, thoughtcatalog.com
“When you have sex with someone you love, you’re not busy thinking about how you’re going to sneak out of their bedroom and ignore their texts the next day. You’re thinking about how much you care about them. About how your bodies feel like they belong together.”— Holly Riordan, thoughtcatalog.com
“When you’re with the right person, you aren’t having sex in order to fulfill a primal need. You’re having sex, because you can’t imagine wasting another second apart from your partner. You don’t want to wait any longer to press your lips and thighs and hips together.”— Holly Riordan, thoughtcatalog.com
“Since you’ve already had lots of sex together, and are likely going to have a lot more, each individual occasion doesn’t carry nearly as much pressure.”— Jessica Blankenship, thoughtcatalog.com
“You never feel pressured to do anything you're not 100 percent hot for in bed.”— Emma Barker, cosmopolitan.com
“You never feel insecure because he knows how to make you feel like a Victoria's Secret Angel.”— Emma Barker, cosmopolitan.com
“He knows exactly what you like because he's made the effort to learn your body. He has a very particular set of skills, and he will look for your clitoris, he will find your clitoris, and he will make your clitoris orgasm.”— Emma Barker, cosmopolitan.com
“As much as being alone may suck for you sometimes you can’t force love. You can’t force someone to want to be with you, it just doesn’t work that way.”— Becca Martin, thoughtcatalog.com
“Don’t skip out on work to look for love because love will find you when it’s ready, but your career can pass you by any second.”— Becca Martin, thoughtcatalog.com
“You don’t have to find the love of your life right now. You’re allowed to be single for the next year. Or two. Or ten. The best thing you can do for yourself at this stage is figure yourself out – so that when the love of your life finally does come along, you’re ready for them.”— Heidi Priebe, thoughtcatalog.com
“I know you’ve been let down and disappointed by love. I know it’s been a long time since you’ve felt the magic you direly miss. But don’t worry – feeling like love is dead is just a key stage everyone passes through in their twenties. The magic comes back. It just happens when you’re expecting it th…”— Heidi Priebe, thoughtcatalog.com
“Finding someone to love you will not fix all (or sometimes, any) of your problems. It just means you’ll have someone to hold you and help you when things get really tough.”— Kim Quindlen, thoughtcatalog.com