“But when you think Tim McGraw I hope you think my favorite song The one we danced to all night long The moon like a spotlight on the lake When you think happiness I hope you think that little black dress Think of my head on your chest And my old faded blue jeans When you think Tim McGraw I hope you…”— Taylor Swift, azlyrics.com
“HEAVEN LIKE, YOU CAN BE HOLY, BUT ONLY IF YOU LOVE THE RIGHT WAY.”— Schuyler Peck, schuylerpeck.tumblr.com
“Call her by her first name. Her full name. Don’t make it sound like her mother’s leather belt tongue, but instead, say it so gently she begins to fall in love with every letter all over again, for the first time.”— Schuyler Peck
“If there ever comes a day when we can't be together keep me in your heart, I'll stay there forever.”— A.A. Milne, amazon.com
“True love will triumph in the end - which may or may not be a lie, but if it is a lie, it's the most beautiful lie we have.”— John Green, amazon.com
“Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it. With our art, our music, our literature, our stubbornness, our joy, our brilliance, our sheer relentlessness – and our ability to tell our own stories. Stories that are diffe…”— Arundhati Roy, goodreads.com
“Here are the values that I stand for: honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the way you want to be treated and helping those in need. To me, those are traditional values.”— Ellen Degeneres, advocate.com
“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens…”— Louise Erdrich, amazon.com
“Compassion hurts. When you feel connected to everything, you also feel responsible for everything. And you cannot turn away. Your destiny is bound with the destinies of others. You must either learn to carry the Universe or be crushed by it. You must grow strong enough to love the world, yet empty e…”— Andrew Boyd, amazon.com
“The plain fact is that the planet does not need more successful people. But it does desperately need more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of every kind. It needs people who live well in their places. It needs people of moral courage willing to join the fight to make the wor…”— David W. Orr, amazon.com
“I like to sit at the airport. I like to see people reunited, I like to see people run to each other, I like the kissing and the crying, I like the impatience, the stories that the mouth can't tell fast enough, the ears that aren't big enough, the eyes that can't take in all of the change, I like the…”— Jonathan Safran Foer, amazon.com
“I have to wonder at what point the people fighting to protect marriage will realize that traditional couples haven’t exactly been doing too good a job of it so far.”— Dan Pearce, amazon.com
“Don't hide behind the Constitution or the Bible. If you're against gay marriage, just be honest, put a scarlet 'H' on your shirt, and say, 'I am a homophobe!”— Henry Rollins, amazon.com
“The whole world goes on and on about love. Poets spend their lives writing about it. Everyone thinks it's the most wonderful thing. But, when you mention two guys in love, they forget all that and freak out.”— Mark A. Roeder, amazon.com
“I was the one you always dreamed of You were the one I tried to draw How dare you say it's nothin to me? Baby, you're the only light I ever saw”— John Mayer, play.spotify.com
“Nothing can be truly replicated. Not a love, not a jewel, not a single line.”— Patti Smith, amazon.com
“Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let the pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place.”— Iain Thomas, iwrotethisforyou.me