“Your apologies hang heavy like the skeleton of the man I once thought I’d marry. I loved you more than I knew what to do with most days. But I do not know you now. And this stranger you’ve become makes my stomach hurt.”— Ari Eastman, amazon.com
“'All I want is you' is not entirely true. I want so much more, and with you I think I can get it.”— David Levithan, amazon.com
“I will love you as a thief loves a gallery and as a crow loves a murder, as a cloud loves bats and as a range loves braes. I will love you as misfortune loves orphans, as fire loves innocence, and as justice loves to sit and watch while everything goes wrong.”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.com
“When your heart is broken, you plant seeds in the cracks and you pray for rain.”— Andrea Gibson, youtube.com
“If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we haven’t loved enough.”— Elif Shafak, amazon.com
“Love is not the last room: there are others after it, the whole length of the corridor that has no end.”— Yehuda Amichai, loc.gov
“WE need to swap the Romantic view for a tragic (and at points comedic) awareness that every human will frustrate, anger, annoy, madden and disappoint us — and we will (without any malice) do the same to them. There can be no end to our sense of emptiness and incompleteness.”— Alain de Botton, nytimes.com
“We should learn to accommodate ourselves to “wrongness,” striving always to adopt a more forgiving, humorous and kindly perspective on its multiple examples in ourselves and in our partners.”— Alain de Botton, nytimes.com
“We want something that’s very passionate, or boiling, from the get-go. In the past, people weren’t looking for something boiling; they just needed some water. Once they found it and committed to a life together, they did their best to heat things up. Now, if things aren’t boiling, committing to marr…”— Aziz Ansari, amazon.com
“‘Well,’ the Goddess said, 'your heart didn’t heal straight the last time it broke. So we’ll break it again and reset it so it heals straight this time.’”— Jane Yolen, amazon.com
“Some of the most told stories are the ones that don’t end well, the ones that are beautiful because someone laid it all on the line, was brave and vulnerable and submitted to the human condition. If that’s your story, its time to stop running from it and start taking pride in the fact that you were…”— Brianna Wiest, thoughtcatalog.com
“The foundation of adult trust is not “You will never hurt me.” It is “I trust myself with whatever you do.”— David Richo, amazon.com
“You playing small doesn’t serve the world. There’s nothing enlightening about shrinking so that others won’t feel uncomfortable around you. As you let your own light shine, you indirectly give others permission to do the same.”— Marianne Williamson, amazon.com
“Well, let it pass, he thought; April is over, April is over. There are all kinds of love in the world, but never the same love twice.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“I really don’t know what ‘I love you’ means. I think it means ‘don’t leave me here alone’.”— Neil Gaiman, amberkoneval.wordpress.com
“I got lost in him, and it was the kind of lost that’s exactly like being found.”— Claire LaZebnik, amazon.com