“Emotional hurt is the price a person has to pay in order to be independent.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“I have a million things to talk to you about. All I want in this world is you. I want to see you and talk. I want the two of us to begin everything from the beginning.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“In everybody’s life there’s a point of no return. And in a very few cases, a point where you can’t go forward anymore. And when we reach that point, all we can do is quietly accept the fact. That’s how we survive.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there's salvation in life. Even if you can't get together with that person.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“She waited for the train to pass. Then she said, "I sometimes think that people’s hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what’s at the bottom. All you can do is imagine by what comes floating to the surface every once in a while.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“But I didn't understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can, just by living, damage another human being beyond repair.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“But who can say what's best? That's why you need to grab whatever chance you have of happiness where you find it, and not worry about other people too much. My experience tells me that we get no more than two or three such chances in a life time, and if we let them go, we regret it for the rest of o…”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who's in love gets sad when they think of their lover. It's like stepping back inside a room you have fond memories of, one you haven't seen in a long time.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“It’s amazing how fast two strangers can build such a strong connection.”— Chasing The Wind, notime-for-negativeminds.tumblr.com
“I hope you find someone who knows how to love you when you're sad.”— Nikita Gill, lonelysoul7.tumblr.com
“I think you still love me, but we can’t escape the fact that I’m not enough for you. I knew this was going to happen. So I’m not blaming you for falling in love with another woman. I’m not angry, either. I should be, but I’m not. I just feel pain. A lot of pain. I thought I could imagine how much th…”— Haruki Murakami,, amazon.com
“She loved you. She loved you more than anyone could ever loved someone, she loved you with all her might and she grabbed herself so hard to you that she went crazy. But you didn’t love her. You just didn’t want to be alone or maybe she was good for your ego or she made you feel better about your mis…”— black-pink-thoughts, black-pink-thoughts.tumblr.com
“ever since you left you’re all I think about. I see you in strangers, I see you in my dreams. how am I suppose to ‘move on’ when I’m in love with you? I’m sitting here thinking about you while you’re thinking about her. I don’t understand why you think so badly about yourself. you’re perfect just th…”— thesecretletter, kayleinlayno.tumblr.com
“I use to think to myself. Why do I even love him? But now that i’ve stopped loving him, the my question is, Why did I ever love him? We are all so caught up with the idea of being in love that we never actually know how it feels to be in love”— kayleinlayno, kayleinlayno.tumblr.com
“I wonder what it's like to be in love. To go to sleep every night and wake up every morning to nothing but a heart full of love because the first thing that’s on your mind is your significant other. To laugh and smile whenever you’re around them or just thinking about them. I want to know what that…”— xjayle, xjayle.tumblr.com
“In the end I think that you’ve just got be yourself. Otherwise, what’s the point? If you laugh a lot, then laugh a lot. If you go in and you put out this false sense of who you are, what’s the point? You’re not gonna be that person. I don’t even understand the point. Just be who you are. I would lik…”— Nicholas Sparks, time.com
“The most important thing if you want a long and happy marriage is to choose well in the first place.”— Nicholas Sparks, eharmony.com