“Being brave enough to be alone frees you up to invite people into your life because you want them and not because you need them.”— Mandy Hale, amazon.com
“Be that strong girl that everyone knew would make it through the worst, be that fearless girl, the one who would dare to do anything, be that independent girl who didn't need a man; be that girl who never backed down.”— Taylor Swift, goodreads.com
“It has made me better, loving you. It has made me wiser, and easier, and brighter. I used to want a great many things before, and to be angry that I did not have them. Theoretically, I was satisfied. I flattered myself that I had limited my wants. But I was subject to irritation; I used to have morb…”— Henry James, amazon.com
“The friends we have lost do not repose under the ground. They are buried deep in our hearts. It has been thus ordained that they may always accompany us.”— Alexandre Dumas, amazon.com
“I would far rather have two or three lilies of the valley gathered for me by a person I like, than the most expensive bouquet that could be bought.”— Elizabeth Gaskell, amazon.com
“When I tell you not to marry without love, I do not advise you to marry for love alone - there are many, many other things to be considered.”— Anne Brontë, amazon.com
“Pick someone who gets you. Pick someone who makes you laugh, whose kisses thrill you, who wants the same things you want. You choose the person, but make your commitment not just to them but to the idea of spending your life with them. Divorce is rarely pretty. So pick wisely.”— Ann Brenoff, huffingtonpost.com
“One can begin so many things with a new person! Even begin to be a better man.”— George Eliot, amazon.com
“What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life--to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting?”— George Eliot, amazon.com
“He forgot that love, which is a madness, and a scourge, and a fever, and a delusion, and a snare, is also a mystery, and very imperfectly understood by everyone except the individual sufferer who writhes under its tortures.”— Mary Elizabeth Braddon, amazon.com
“Women can resist a man's love, a man's fame, a man's personal appearance, and a man's money, but they cannot resist a man's tongue when he knows how to talk to them.”— Wilkie Collins, amazon.com
“It is not in doing what you like, but in liking what you do that is the secret of happiness.”— J.M. Barrie, amazon.com
“But shouldn't all of us on earth give the best we have to others and offer whatever is in our power?”— Hans Christian Andersen, amazon.com
“Be careful of love. It'll twist your brain around and leave you thinking up is down and right is wrong.”— Rick Riordan, amazon.com
“I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart for so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can be together all the time.”— A. A. Milne, amazon.com
“Real love is looking at someone and knowing that you wouldn’t mind waking up to their bad breath for the next century, and you are fine with them seeing you before you brush your hair and fix your face for the day.”— K.M. Shea, amazon.com