“I don’t care, I love you anyhow. It is too late to turn you out of my heart. Part of you lives here.”— Anne Sexton, amazon.com
“If my skin were a canvas and her lips a brush, not an inch of me would have remained unpainted and vice versa.”— Vladimir Nabokov, amazon.com
“Sometimes you just can’t fix all the broken pieces, no matter how much you want to save them. Sometimes things are too crushed and damaged to be put back together.”— Becca Martin, thoughtcatalog.com
“The truth is the less you want people the more they want you back, the more they crave your attention because the one who cares less is always the one with the most control.”— Becca Martin, thoughtcatalog.com
“I have been holding on to a relationship that’s not quite there. To a commitment that isn’t. To a love that doesn’t give it’s all. To a person who’s not all in.”— Zybelle Slouanne Esmena, thoughtcatalog.com
“We can love someone very much and still not be meant for them. Affection and compatibility are two different beasts.”— Brianna Wiest, thoughtcatalog.com
“We let go because we deserve someone that makes you feel good 100% of the time. We let go because we shouldn’t just like half of one person. We let go because we want someone to love us, as deeply as we love them.”— Kirsten Corley, thoughtcatalog.com
“Isn’t that the greatest tragedy? When someone rejects us, no matter how they abuse our love, we hope against reason that somehow they will come back to us.”— Suzanne Elizabeth Anderson, amazon.com
“She wants long conversations about your life, she wants to hear stories about your past, she wants to understand your pain and she wants to add value to your life. She wants a real relationship that goes beyond going out and having fun.”— Rania Naim, thoughtcatalog.com
“A deep woman won’t wait for you. She will not wait for you to make up your mind or watch you be hesitant about her. She is strong and passionate and will not waste her emotions on someone who doesn’t appreciate her depth.”— Rania Naim, thoughtcatalog.com
“A deep woman knows when someone can’t meet her halfway and she will slowly detach herself from anyone who is not willing to give her the deep love she is looking for.”— Rania Naim, thoughtcatalog.com
“A deep woman only knows how to love deeply. If you can’t love her deeply, she will walk away. She doesn’t know how to casually date someone she’s really into or be friends with someone she has feelings for.”— Rania Naim, thoughtcatalog.com
“If this constant bitter disappointment was love, then I was perfectly fine not to have anything to do with it.”— Vann Chow, amazon.com
“Sometimes waiting and being disappointed was good, to remind me he didn't belong to me. Nothing belonged to me.”— Bryn Greenwood, amazon.com
“You fall in love, it's intoxicating, an for a little while you feel like you've actually become one with the other person. Merged souls, and so on. You think you'll never be lonely again. Only it doesn't last and soon you realize you can only get so close and you end up brutally disappointed, more a…”— Nicole Krauss, amazon.com
“Disappointments in love, even betrayals and losses, serve the soul at the very moment they seem in life to be tragedies. The soul is partly in time and partly in eternity. We might remember the part that resides in eternity when we feel despair over the part that is in life.”— Thomas Moore, amazon.com
“Why is it so hard to articulate love yet so easy to express disappointment?”— Kaui Hart Hemmings, amazon.com
“I knew what happened when you let yourself get close to someone, when you started to believe they loved you: you'd be disappointed. Depend on someone, and you might as well admit you're going to be crushed, because when you really needed them, they wouldn't be there.”— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com
“I have fallen in love more times than I care to count with the highest potential of a man, rather than with the man himself, and I have hung on to the relationship for a long time (sometimes far too long) waiting for the man to ascend to his own greatness. Many times in romance I have been a victim…”— Elizabeth Gilbert, amazon.com