“What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, amazon.com
“Sometimes it’s 9am on a tuesday morning and you’re standing at the kitchen bench waiting for the toast to pop up And the smell of dusty sunlight and earl gray tea makes you miss them so much you don’t know what to do with your hands.”— Rosie Scanlan, watchkimwritethings.wordpress.com
“Stop loving people who will never know how to pronounce your name with the magic that it deserves.”— Nikita Gill, meanwhilepoetry.tumblr.com
“Baby, I have no idea how this will end. Maybe the equator will fall like a hula hoop from the Earth’s hips And our mouths will freeze mid-kiss on our 80th anniversary. Or maybe tomorrow my absolute insanity Combined with the absolute obstacle course of your communication skills Will leave us like a…”— Andrea Gibson, youtube.com
“You could come knocking on my door five years from now and I would open my arms wider and say ‘come here, it’s been too long, it felt like home with you.’”— Azra T., 5000letters.tumblr.com
“The first thing that I do before I get into your house I'm gonna tear off all the petals from the rose that's in your mouth.”— Victoria Legrand, youtu.be
“"If I never love anyone again the way I have loved you" he said, "that will be a relief."”— Mia Hollow, twitter.com
“We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it.”— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com
“I’m learning persistence and the closing of doors, the way the seasons come and go as I keep walking on these roads, back and forth, to find myself in new time zones, new arms with new phrases and new goals. And it hurts to become, hurts to find out about the poverty and gaps, the widow and the leav…”— Charlotte Eriksson, amazon.com
“Remember how we unhinged? Remember all the names our bodies called each other? Remember how afterwards, the steam rose from us, like a pair of smiling ghosts?”— Cristin O'Keefe, muzzlemagazine.com
“I hope that if alternate universes exist, it will still be you and me in the end. I hope that there will always be an us. In every world, in every story.”— Tina Tran, absentions.net
“I do not want to look for a mad passionate affair. Not because I’m frightened but because, please believe me, I do not want a lover. I want a friend.”— Anne Sexton, amazon.com
“Sadness is knowing I cannot stay here forever, no house to be found inside of love. It is nothing but open space, endless sky, shards of sun like rain.”— Stephanie Barelman, hellopoetry.com
“One day, whether you are 14, 28 or 65 you will stumble upon someone who will start a fire in you that cannot die. However, the saddest, most awful truth you will ever come to find–– is they are not always with whom we spend our lives.”— Beau Taplin, goodreads.com
“Perhaps the fact that I chased a boy who ripped me to shreds says a lot more about me than it did about him.”— Michelle K., michellekpoems.tumblr.com
“I have seen the best of you and the worst of you, and I choose both.”— Sarah Kay, Phil Kaye, youtube.com