“She found it so attractive, his shortness, his solid firm shortness. She saw, in his shortness, a groundedness; he could weather anything, he would not easily be swayed.”— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, amazon.com
“She found this foolishly exciting, that it was raining where she was and it was not raining where he was, only minutes from her, and so she waited, with impatience, with a charged delight, until they could both see the rain together.”— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, amazon.com
“the whole world is caught in her glance and at last the universe is magnificent.”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color of forgotten love.”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“did she love you? only as an extension of herself. what else can love be?”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“She held herself very straight, like Audrey Hepburn, whom all women idolize and men never think about.”— Jeffrey Eugenides, amazon.com
“Human relationships were strange. I mean, you were with one person a while, eating and sleeping and living with them, loving them, talking to them, going places together, and then it stopped.”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“Stay away from the ones you love too much. Those are the ones who will kill you.”— Donna Tartt, amazon.com
“We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“Try not to resist the changes that come your way. Instead let life live through you. And do not worry that your life is turning upside down. How do you know that the side you are used to is better than the one to come?”— Elif Shafak, amazon.com
“This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.”— Elizabeth Gilbert, amazon.com
“This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.”— Elizabeth Gilbert, amazon.com
“There are no happy endings, endings are the saddest part, so just give me a happy middle, and a very happy start.”— Shel Silverstein, amazon.com
“The person that you want to date is already alive and well. They are living their life somewhere in this world, on this earth, and it serves you to trust in their existence.”— Miss Solomon, thoughtcatalog.com
“Given the right psychological conditions, a person could fall in love with anyone.”— Miranda July, amazon.com
“What was the lifespan of these improbable loves? An hour. A week. A few months at best. The end was a natural thing, like the seasons, like getting older, fruit turning. That was the saddest part—there was no one to blame and no way to reverse”— Miranda July, amazon.com
“If you were wise enough to know that this life would consist mostly of letting go of things you wanted, then why not get good at the letting go, rather than the trying to have?”— Miranda July, amazon.com