“I fell in love with him. But I don't just stay with him by default as if there's no one else available to me. I stay with him because I choose to, every day that I wake up, every day that we fight or lie to each other or disappoint each other. I choose him over and over again, and he chooses me.”— Veronica Roth, amazon.com
“Something about him makes me feel like I am about to fall. Or turn to liquid. Or burst into flames.”— Veronica Roth, amazon.com
“We’re ferociously loyal and protective. If you tell us about someone who pushed you on the subway or screwed you over at work or bullied you in third grade, we will want to hold you close, then find whoever hurt you and kill everything that they love.”— Jessica Sager, thoughtcatalog.com
“They are also sensitive individuals that feel things quite deeply. As a result, they can be the most giving, loving people in the world if treated right, but beware. Hurt a Scorpio and they’ll never forgive you or allow you to forget it.”— Unknown, astrologycompanion.com
“I wanted to look at everything through her eyes. I do this before I bring someone new into my life; I try to get a sense of who I am so that I can make it easier for them to know me.”— Miranda July, amazon.com
“She bludgeoned me with a look of such limitless compassion that I immediately began to cry.”— Miranda July, amazon.com
“Our habits slid apart easily...And our very few intimacies were simply discontinued. Where did they go, those things we did? Were they recycled? Did some new couple in China do them? Were a Swedish man and woman foot to foot at this very moment?”— Miranda July, amazon.com
“He isn’t cruel to you. Relationships are built on trust, love, and mutual respect. If he ever hits you, threatens you, puts you down, calls you names, or plays mind games with you, then you need to get out. Now.”— Milo Todd, hardlinechat.com
“I laughed and said, Life is easy. What I meant was, Life is easy with you here, and when you leave, it will be hard again.”— Miranda July, amazon.com
“You can see it in his eyes that he is in love with you and that he thinks you are attractive. The look that I am talking about is hypnotizing: if you lock eyes with him, you both are sure to swoon somewhat and blush as red as you can! This look confirms that he is completely into you!”— Riya Roy, newlovetimes.com
“We had fallen in love; that was still true. But given the right psychological conditions, a person could fall in love with anyone or anything.”— Miranda July, amazon.com
“What was the lifespan of these improbable loves? An hour. A week. A few months at best. The end was a natural thing, like the seasons, like getting older, fruit turning. That was the saddest part—there was no one to blame and no way to reverse.”— Miranda July, amazon.com
“Sometimes I looked at her sleeping face, the living flesh of it, and was overwhelmed by how precarious it was to love a living thing. She could die simply from lack of water. It hardly seemed safer than falling in love with a plant.”— Miranda July, amazon.com
“It was an act of devotion. A little like writing or loving someone — it doesn’t always feel worthwhile, but not giving up somehow creates unexpected meaning over time.”— Miranda July, amazon.com
“Each day I wondered what would happen next. What happens when you stop wanting, when you are happy. I supposed I would go on being happy forever. I knew I would not mess things up by growing bored. I had done that once before.”— Miranda July, amazon.com
“If there were a map of the solar system, but instead of stars it showed people and their degrees of separation, my star would be the one you had to travel the most light-years from to get to his. You would die getting to him.”— Miranda July, amazon.com