“But I don't want to carry on like everything is fine The longer we ignore it all the more that we will fight Please don't fall apart I can't face your breaking heart I'm trying to be brave Stop asking me to stay”— Adele, youtube.com
“We play so dirty in the dark Cause we are living worlds apart It only makes it harder, baby.”— Adele, youtube.com
“I was wondering if after all these years you'd like to meet To go over everything They say that time's supposed to heal ya But I ain't done much healing”— Adele, youtube.com
“Love is a delicate thing that needs to be cosseted and protected. Love is not robust and love is not unyielding. Love can crumble under a few harsh words, or be tossed away with a handful of careless actions. Love isn't a steadfast dog at all; love is more like a pygmy mouse lemur.”— Khaled Hosseini, amazon.com
“The past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion.”— Khaled Hosseini, amazon.com
“I now know that some people feel unhappiness the way others love: privately, intensely, and without recourse.”— Khaled Hosseini, amazon.com
“Being left out is familiar to you, you think you deserve it. You believe there is something about you which is the reason.”— Daphne Rose Kingma, amazon.com
“Through self criticism you look at yourself and find yourself unacceptable not worthy of your own love.”— Daphne Rose Kingma, amazon.com
“When we don't know how to love ourselves...we don't know how to treat others.”— Daphne Rose Kingma, amazon.com
“There it goes again. That heavy feeling in your chest when you don’t feel any desire to speak or move. All you want to do is close your eyes and sleep, because the process of being broken is incredibly exhausting. You attempt your best to make your days fulfilling, but no matter how hard you try, yo…”— Anonymous, thelovewhisperer.me
“No relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something greater…The love we have for each other is bigger than these small differences. And that’s the key. It’s like a big pie chart, and the love in a relationship…”— Sarah Dessen, amazon.com
“The capacity to be alone is the capacity to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it is not. It is an existential truth: only those people who are capable of being alone are capable of love, of sharing, of going into the deepest core of the other person without possessing the other, without beco…”— Osho, thelazyyogi.com
“I love you also means I love you more than anyone loves you, or has loved you, or will love you, and also, I love you in a way that no one loves you, or has loved you, or will love you, and also, I love you in a way that I love no one else, and never have loved anyone else, and never will love anyon…”— Jonathan Safran Foer, amazon.com
“I no longer believed in the idea of soul mates, or love at first sight. But I was beginning to believe that a very few times in your life, if you were lucky, you might meet someone who was exactly right for you. Not because he was perfect, or because you were, but because your combined flaws were ar…”— Lisa Kleypas, amazon.com
“I hope that someday, somebody wants to hold you for twenty minutes straight, and that’s all they do. They don’t pull away. They don’t look at your face. They don’t try to kiss you. All they do is wrap you up in their arms, without an ounce of selfishness in it.”— Jenna Hunterson, amazon.com
“I am strong because I am weak. I am beautiful because I know my flaws. I am a lover because I am a fighter. I am fearless because I have been afraid. I am wise because I have been foolish. & I can laugh because I’ve known sadness.”— Anonymous, beyondadversity.com