“Nothing like being with people you’ve known almost your entire life. Having a shared history is something you just can’t create with the new ones. No matter how much you like that, it just isn’t the same.”— Jane Green, amazon.com
“These are the dreams we should be having. I shouldn’t have to clean them up like this.”— Richard Siken, amazon.com
“For all the productivity and success advice I’ve read, shaped and marketed for dozens of authors in the last decade, I’ve never really seen someone come out and say: Find yourself a spouse who complements and supports you and makes you better. Instead, we’re supposed to believe that relationships ti…”— Ryan Holiday, ryanholiday.net
“Physical chemistry is not physical at all. Anybody can be attracted to another person, but when bodies move like they've known one another forever and eyes lock like you weren't strangers just a little while ago and lips meet like they were built for one another, it is a manifestation of something d…”— Anonymous, amazon.com
“I wonder if we will ever stop seeing each other / if we will ever realize that we will never fully belong to one another / because we will never fully understand how to love ourselves.”— Liz Rae, thoughtcatalog.com
“Tell me every terrible thing you ever did, and let me love you anyway.”— Sade Andria Zabala, facebook.com
“The biggest challenge of being in a relationship is relearning to be comfortable. I am in my element only when I am miserable.”— Sade Andria Zabala, facebook.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
“We may not have been built for monogamy, but interestingly enough, it’s the one animalistic trait we aren’t always trying to transcend. We weren’t built to eat at tables or work in fluorescent-lit offices each day, we weren’t built to internalize shame or gamble or consume copious amounts of alcohol…”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“I refuse to believe that love won’t be mine one day. It’s hard to fight that belief on some days, I’ll be honest, but one thing I’m realizing is that you can’t force love.”— Ashley Jones, thoughtcatalog.com
“I set out to find myself, but when I searched my soul, what I found was you.”— Anonymous, goodreads.org
“Love is supposed to change you, and it will. This is how we determine the quality of a relationship: by the person we become when we're in it. People always say the opposite – that you should never change for someone else – but with the right person, you will evolve rapidly. The right person will sh…”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“Close your eyes and imagine the best version of yourself possible. That’s who you really are, let go of any part of you that doesn’t believe it.”— C. Assaad, goodreads.com
“We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.”— Tom Robbins, goodreads.com
“The truth is that the more intimately you know someone, the more clearly you’ll see their flaws. That’s just the way it is. This is why marriages fail, why children are abandoned, why friendships don’t last. You might think you love someone until you see the way they act when they’re out of money or…”— Melanie Williams, melaniejwilliams.com
“To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balanced life.”— Elizabeth Gilbert, amazon.com
“You love me differently just like I love you differently and people change and move on and blah blah, but why is this sort of distant love the hardest thing to handle? How do people handle this? Do they?”— Mila Jaroniec, thoughtcatalog.com