“And yes, there are over a million words in our language but for some reason none of them can describe the way you make me feel.”— nina , instagram.com
“Intimacy is not who you let touch you. Intimacy is who you text at 3am about your dreams and fears. Intimacy is giving someone your attention, when ten other people are asking for it. Intimacy is the person always in the back of your mind, no matter how distracted you are.”— KISSESANDMARTINI© , instagram.com
“Say it before you run out of time. Say it before it’s too late. Say what you’re feeling. Waiting is a mistake”— KISSESANDMARTINI© , instagram.com
“I swear that when our lips touch, I can taste the next 60 years of my life.”— Rudy Francisco, genius.com
“You know, I think love is about finding someone who’s flaws work with yours in perfect harmony.”— Melly, waakeme-up.tumblr.com
“If you can’t get someone off your mind they are probably supposed to be there.”— ihatequotes™, twitter.com
“Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn't matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal.”— George Orwell, amazon.com
“In desperate love, we always invent the characters of our partners, demanding they be what we need of them, and then feeling devastated when they refuse to perform the role we created in the first place.”— Elizabeth Gilbert, amazon.com
“Every healthy marriage is composed of walls and windows. The windows are the aspects of your relationship that are open to the world – that is, the necessary gaps through which you interact with family and friends; the walls are the barriers of trust behind which you guard the most intimate secrets…”— Elizabeth Gilbert, amazon.com
“The emotional place where a marriage begins is not nearly as important as the emotional place where a marriage finds itself toward the end, after many years of partnership.”— Elizabeth Gilbert, amazon.com
“It's so much easier and cheaper to keep the river uncontaminated in the first place than it is to clean it up again once it's been polluted.”— Elizabeth Gilbert, amazon.com
“The more unsettled and unbalanced we feel, the more quickly and recklessly we are likely to fall in love.”— Elizabeth Gilbert, amazon.com
“In the end, it seems to me that forgiveness may be the only realistic antidote we are offered in love, to combat the inescapable disappointments of intimacy.”— Elizabeth Gilbert, amazon.com
“Desiring another person is perhaps the most risky endeavor of all. As soon as you want somebody—really want him—it is as though you have taken a surgical needle and sutured your happiness to the skin of that person, so that any separation will now cause a lacerating injury.”— Elizabeth Gilbert, amazon.com
“There is hardly a more gracious gift that we can offer somebody than to accept them fully, to love them almost despite themselves.”— Elizabeth Gilbert, amazon.com
“Then again, you cannot stop the flood of desire as it moves through the world, inappropriate though it may sometimes be. It is the prerogative of all humans to make ludicrous choices, to fall in love with the most unlikely of partners, and to set themselves up for the most predictable of calamities.”— Elizabeth Gilbert, amazon.com
“By unnerving definition, anything that the heart has chosen for its own mysterious reasons it can always unchoose later—again, for its own mysterious reasons.”— Elizabeth Gilbert, amazon.com