“Sometimes I wonder if we ever truly let anyone completely in. The desire for another human being to know you, all of you, all the pieces, even the ones you’re ashamed of — is huge. But too often, we sit down and sort through the pieces only picking out the pretty ones, leaving the ugly ones behind,…”— Rachel Van Dyken, amazon.com
“You've got to have someone who loves your body. Who doesn't define you, but sees you. Who loves what he sees. Who you don't have to struggle to be good enough for.”— Deb Caletti, amazon.com
“My sister will die over and over again for the rest of my life. Grief is forever. It doesn't go away; it becomes a part of you, step for step, breath for breath. I will never stop grieving Bailey because I will never stop loving her. That's just how it is. Grief and love are conjoined, you don't get…”— Jandy Nelson, amazon.com
“You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.”— J.K. Rowling, amazon.com
“You know, sometimes I feel like I’ve never really felt love.”— Elizabeth Meriwether, Winston Bishop, Lamorne Morris, imdb.com
“When you care about somebody you do what's best for them even if it sucks for you.”— Elizabeth Meriwether, Schmidt, Max Greenfield, imdb.com
“What if I have some idea of love in my head and it’s just totally wrong?”— David Quandt, Jessica "Jess" Day, Zooey Deschanel, imdb.com
“Love is not enough to keep you together when he can fall asleep knowing that you’re heavily hurting. Love is not enough when he hasn’t apologised in over a week for the way he yelled at you and made you question your worth in front of a supermarket. Love is not enough when he doesn’t kiss you and te…”— Sasha Mitchell, thoughtcatalog.com
“You cannot force yourself to stay with someone just because your family loves him. You cannot force yourself to stay with someone when your heart doesn’t want it anymore. You deserve to be happy, and if he is not making you happy, then for God’s sake, LEAVE. You are better than this.”— Sasha Mitchell, thoughtcatalog.com
“Love is not silently crying watching your tears run down your pillowcase, hoping he doesn’t wake up because you don’t want him to wake up. You don’t want to confide in him anymore.”— Sasha Mitchell, thoughtcatalog.com
“You think to yourself, ‘I love him, and that’s enough.’ No. It’s not enough. It’s not enough when the laughter between you is gone and the flame you once had has burnt out.”— Sasha Mitchell, thoughtcatalog.com
“You deserve the love that never keep scores or lists of wrong doings because you know for sure that relationship is a commitment, a bond between two people, and not a competition of who will win or lose.”— Nicole Phreeman, thoughtcatalog.com
“You deserve the love that fights for you, keeps you and stays with you whatever happens.”— Nicole Phreeman, thoughtcatalog.com
“You deserve the love that makes you feel appreciated and valued despite the imperfections marked all over you, that even though there are times you screw things up, you don’t have to be sorry because you’re accepted as you are and forgiven as you will be.”— Nicole Phreeman, thoughtcatalog.com
“You deserve to fall in love with someone who doesn’t want to break your heart or play with it, you deserve someone who can remind you that love is not a game, that everyone who ever played you was the real loser and you deserve someone who’s terrified of losing you.”— Rania Naim, thoughtcatalog.com
“You deserve to remember what it feels like to be with someone who’s afraid of losing you, someone who does their best to make sure that you’ll always remain in their life because it would be incomplete without you.”— Rania Naim, thoughtcatalog.com
“You deserve to remember how it feels to be loved and be truly cared for. You deserve to be with someone who makes you forget about every ignored message, every unanswered call and every person who couldn’t love you.”— Rania Naim, thoughtcatalog.com
“You deserve someone who will stay with you during the stormy days and assures you that there will be a rainbow somewhere along the way.”— Dian Tinio, thoughtcatalog.com
“You deserve a love that won’t keep you up worrying. You deserve a love that feels like home. A love that is certain. A love that makes sense.”— Ari Eastman, thoughtcatalog.com
“Love shouldn’t make you question yourself. And you deserve to know that. You deserve a chance to find that out.”— Ari Eastman, thoughtcatalog.com