“...what we call ‘love at first sight’ is really intense lust and desire coupled with the recognition that there is the potential to create something meaningful with this other person.”— Sabrina Alexis, amazon.com
“You can be totally perfect for one another, you can love each other like crazy, you can be wildly attracted to one another, you can even be soul mates, and you will still have to work at it.”— Sabrina Alexis, amazon.com
“In a romantic relationship, love will give you stability, partnership, and acceptance, but lust will give you passion, fire, and sexual satisfaction.”— Sabrina Alexis, amazon.com
“When it comes to love, the rule to live by is never allow yourself to care for someone who hasn’t shown he cares about making you happy.”— Sabrina Alexis, amazon.com
“If you run into each other here and there and talk for hours and maybe even hook up, but you don’t hear from him after… he likes you, he just doesn’t like you enough.”— Sabrina Alexis, amazon.com
“When a guy opens up to you, when he shares his dreams, his fears, his hopes, his wishes, his motivations, etc., he is investing in you. By investing in you, he is committing himself to you.”— Sabrina Alexis, amazon.com
“You convince yourself that no other man on the planet has the same qualities as him and thus you have two choices: get him back or settle for someone who will never measure up. I hope you can recognize the absurdity of this!”— Sabrina Alexis, amazon.com
“When you go through a breakup, you may be missing the feeling of being loved and cared for. To fill this empty space, surround yourself with people who genuinely care about you and love you for who you are.”— Sabrina Alexis, amazon.com
“A relationship is going to unfold in only one of two ways: it will either last forever or it will fall apart. In order to get the relationship that lasts, you have to come to terms with all the ones that didn’t.”— Sabrina Alexis, amazon.com
“Love is about realistically seeing who the other person is, flaws and all, and appreciating the entire picture. It doesn’t make demands or need things to be a certain way, it grows and flows and creates an environment where both people bring out the best in one another.”— Sabrina Alexis, amazon.com
“My last relationship had instilled a belief in me that I was unworthy of love, that I would never get the guy I wanted, that no man would love the real me … so I sought out guys who weren’t in a place to love anyone, really, and was proven right time and time again.”— Sabrina Alexis, amazon.com
“Your reality is created in large part by your filter system. If you believe that the guys you want will never want you, you will find a justification for this fear even if it’s far from the case.”— Sabrina Alexis, amazon.com
“The number one way to attract love is to make yourself into a vessel that can receive it.”— Sabrina Alexis, amazon.com
“We’re told that love conquers all, but in truth love alone does not make for a good and healthy relationship.”— Sabrina Alexis, amazon.com
“Wendy? Darling? Light, of my life. I'm not gonna hurt ya. I'm just going to bash your brains in.”— Stephen King, amazon.com
“When you meet a man in the doorway of a Mexican restaurant who later kisses you while explaining that this kiss doesn’t ‘mean anything’ because, much as he likes you, he is not interested in having a relationship with you or anyone right now, just laugh and kiss him back. Your daughter will have his…”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com
“What happened to me is something that happens to many women after a toxic relationship and crushing breakup: I internalized faulty beliefs about myself and never challenged them.”— Sabrina Alexis, amazon.com
“Instead of feeling sorry for myself because I couldn’t get him to commit in the way I wanted, I felt sorry for him for having so many issues, issues that prevented him from committing to a great woman he had right in front of him.”— Sabrina Alexis, amazon.com
“Why was I so wrapped up in getting inside his head? The reason, I believe, is that getting lost in his drama was an escape from dealing with my own.”— Sabrina Alexis, amazon.com
“I realized that with Kevin I felt less alone and maybe a little understood. Like me, he was a little lost and hurt, and that made me feel better in my own world of lost and hurt.”— Sabrina Alexis, amazon.com