“I still have no idea why you stayed. Why you tolerated me. But I’m glad you did.”— Lauren Doyle Owens, nytimes.com
“You should be able to be with somebody you love and also live a life that entices, invigorates and inspires you. You should be able to pursue what you want out of this world in every fearless way you want to without running the risk of losing the person you value most. You should be able to have, at…”— Heidi Priebe, thoughtcatalog.com
“I don’t believe in love at first sight but I do believe in seeing someone from across the room and knowing instantly that they’re going to matter to you.”— Ryan O’Connell, thoughtcatalog.com
“Beside the stove we ate an orange. And there were purple flowers on the table. And we still had hours.”— Kim Addonizio, soracities.tumblr.com
“There was chemistry — I was sure of it — but the magical suspension of subway etiquette inspired by the delay was gone too soon.”— D.S. Mazer, manrepeller.com
“To see a beautiful elf with golden wings come fluttering, fluttering gently down from the sky, — you open your arms to catch her — so . . . and just as you think you have her, she leans only a little bit on one side and falls, not into your heart — no! — into the heart of someone else! That is grief…”— Marie Corelli, amazon.com
“And shall I ruffle the sweet leaves; shall I crush the tender petals? Or shall I simply transform them, from pansies into roses, — from the dream of love, — into love itself?”— Marie Corelli, amazon.com
“He wished to be alone with his own thoughts for awhile — to try and resolve the meaning of this strange new emotion that possessed him, — a feeling that was half-pleasing, half-painful, and that certainly moved him to a sort of shame.”— Marie Corelli, amazon.com
“Love is electricity. Two telegrams are enough to settle the business, — one from the eyes of the man, the other from those of the woman.”— Marie Corelli, amazon.com
“'You would not blame poor Svensen because he is alone, father?' she said. 'Is he not to be pitied? Surely it is a cruel fate to have none to love in all the wide world. Nothing can be more cruel!'”— Marie Corelli, amazon.com
“We've been indoctrinated to believe that it’s immoral to try to change someone else. We’ve been told that love, real love, is about accepting your partner “for who they are." But we’re constantly changing our romantic partners merely by our presence in their day-to-day lives. They react to us. We re…”— James J. Sexton, psychologytoday.com
“Is this dishonest? I don’t think so. Is wearing makeup dishonest? It’s changing the focus, accentuating the positive, and distracting the eye from the negative.”— James J. Sexton, psychologytoday.com
“I'm fist fighting with fire just to get close to you. Can we burn something, babe?”— Rihanna, open.spotify.com
“In your opinion, what’s the biggest difference between love and infatuation?”— Shahida Arabi, thoughtcatalog.com
“Love is more gentle and understanding & sometimes joking about all the things that used to hurt.”— Ari Eastman, instagram.com
“give me cheap beer and country back roads– the hum of the engine as we climb through the roof towards a sky with no sun.”— Ashe Vernon, latenightcornerstore.com
“It's really hard to say, 'I wish X had never happened,' because it's the sum of the series that brings us to now.”— Sidra Gross, youtube.com