“There was a time when mapmakers named the places they travelled through with the names of lovers rather than their own.”— Michael Ondaatje, amazon.com
“Hey, wait. Well, love after all is a habit like any other. A habit, maybe. Like any other, no.”— Renata Adler, amazon.com
“She was extending a hand that I didn’t know how to take, so I broke its fingers with my silence.”— Jonathan Safran Foer, amazon.com
“What if you didn’t run? This one time. What if you stayed, and let love overtake you?”— Dr. Joshua Bennett, twitter.com
“I no longer need you to fuck me as hard as I hate myself. Make love to me like you know I am better than the worst thing I ever did. Go slow. I’m new to this but I have seen nearly every city from a rooftop without jumping. I have realized that the moon did not have to be full for us to love it. We…”— Buddy Wakefield, buddywakefield.com
“When you’re in your 20s, you change. A lot. I know this sounds ridiculous, but like I’m 26 and whenever I meet someone who’s 22 or 23 — even if I love them — I’m just like, “Go back into the oven because you aren’t done yet.” Three years do make a major difference in your 20s because every year is l…”— Ryan O'Connell, thoughtcatalog.com
“To love again, you must not discard what has happened to you, but take from it the strength you’ll need to carry on.”— Simon Van Booy, amazon.com
“Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.”— Bell Hooks, amazon.com
“Why don’t you tell me that, ‘if the girl had been worth having she’d have waited for you?' 'No, sir, the girl really worth having won’t wait for anybody.'”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“I am sorry they mistook your kindness for weakness, Don’t they know? It takes a strong heart to pump all this blood, all this trying, all this willingness to be open when everyone around is trying to force you closed. You warrior with a purple heart. You lover with a Grand Canyon of possibility. The…”— Ari Eastman, thoughtcatalog.com
“One thing I am certain of, I do not want to be betrayed, but that’s quite hard to say, casually, at the beginning of a relationship. It’s not a word people use very often, which confuses me, because there are different kinds of infidelity, but betrayal is betrayal wherever you find it. By betrayal,…”— Jeanette Winterson, amazon.com
“Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.”— Erica Jong, amazon.com
“Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn’t have to invent a thing.”— Jonathan Safran Foer, amazon.com
“There ain’t no way you can hold onto something that wants to go, you understand? You can only love what you got while you got it.”— Kate DiCamillo, amazon.com
“What you feel about another person, what you think or say about another person, what you do to another person – you do to you. Give judgment and criticism and you give it to yourself. Give love and appreciation to another person or anything, and you give it to yourself.”— Rhonda Byrne, amazon.com
“Chances are, while you can come across as introverted, the real reason for your apparent reserve is you’re happy to be the life of your own party (be it in your head or in your own space) rather than follow the crowd.”— Rosemary Breen, amazon.com
“"There was a storm in her eyes rocky seas from a hundred stormy nights but also there was a light a warm wind from a distant shore so that's here I headed towards the light that shone in her eyes with gentle seas."”— Atticus, instagram.com