“The point is, I don’t know what we are. Okay? That’s the truth. I don’t know what I think we are. I just know that I like the fact that there’s a 'we' for us to talk about.”— Aurin Squire, Kay Oyegun, Kevin Pearson , Justin Hartley, imdb.com
“If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next—if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions—you'd be doomed. You'd be ruined as God. You'd be a stone. You'd never eat or drink or laugh or get out of bed in the morning. You'd never love anyon…”— Margaret Atwood, amazon.com
“The world's cold as a motherfucker, IJ? When you get older, one thing I learned… only women, children and dogs…are loved unconditionally. Women, children, and dogs are loved unconditionally. A man is only loved…under the condition that he provides something.”— Chris Rock, scrapsfromtheloft.com
“I know back doors and the colors and shades of exit-only signs like I know the shape of my own body. And what I mean to say is that there’s always some sort of leaving, something that never stays; that there’s something that never quite sticks.”— Natalia Vela, thoughtcatalog.com
“I see people falling in love and people in love around me, people having somewhere to seek refuge in from the hurricanes.”— Natalia Vela, thoughtcatalog.com
“I caught the balloon by the end of its string. I did not catch the balloon. I was sorry to see it go. A lot of things get smaller. Shoes, jackets. Don’t laugh at me. I know the sound a dog makes when it’s in love. I know what people do when they get married. There are some grown-ups in the other roo…”— Maria Martin, narrativemagazine.com
“Darling just hold my hand. Be my girl, I'll be your man. I see my future in your eyes.”— Ed Sheeran, open.spotify.com
“I have grown to learn that being loved, sexy, adored, and confident in my skin takes work — but not just the kind of work you can do in a gym. Seeing myself through my husband’s eyes made me value myself in new ways.”— Colleen Kelly Alexander, lennyletter.com
“Sometimes the people whom we love the most are actually the ones who do not deserve us at all and that's okay.”— Yashi, instagram.com
“Imagine falling in love with somebody only to find out that your capacity to love grows with every new thing you notice about them.”— Jonny Sun, twitter.com
“While progressive social changes may be afoot, others worry the decline in sex is indicative of a more existential crisis—that technology is alienating rather than connecting us.”— Gulnaz Khan, nationalgeographic.com
“Loving someone despite their faults, failings, or character defects is the most powerful thing you can do.”— Kristen Bell, twitter.com
“In 10 years, when the dopamine has waned, remember: life is a crazy ride, its a privilege to go through it with a partner.”— Kristen Bell, twitter.com
“Maybe this is all love is and all it will ever be -- boys fucking girls and pretending it's love, girls getting fucked and pretending they like it.”— Amy Reed, amazon.com
“Even having a conversation about the imbalance of emotional labor becomes emotional labor. It gets to a point where I have to weigh the benefits of getting my husband to understand my frustration against the compounded emotional labor of doing so in a way that won’t end in us fighting.”— Gemma Hartley, harpersbazaar.com