“Funny how time and distance change you the road you take don't always lead you home You can start a love with good intentions and then you look up and it's gone”— Miranda Lambert, amazon.com
“Give me unforgettable conversations instead of dinners, shower me with your secrets instead of your gifts, pick me up when I’m feeling down instead of picking me up in a limo, be my star instead of buying me diamonds and give me something the world can’t take back, give me something the world can’t…”— Rania Naim, thoughtcatalog.com
“Do real boys actually call girls baby? I don't have enough experience to know. I do know that if a guy ever called me baby, I'd probably laugh in his face. Or choke him.”— Katja Millay, amazon.com
“Yes, boys are a little like shoes. Why? Well...They can be useful. But mainly...They are nice to look at. Getting the right one can be a lovely accessory to an outfit. There are times when you couldn't do without them. And there are times when you'd rather do without them. Get the wrong ones and the…”— Rachel Hill, amazon.com
“...I told him a story of two people. Two people who shouldn't have met, and who didn't like each other much when they did, but who found they were the only two people in the world who could possibly have understood each other.”— Jojo Moyes
“All I can say is that you make me... you make me into someone I couldn't even imagine. You make me happy, even when you're awful. I would rather be with you - even the you that you seem to think is diminished - than with anyone else in the world.”— Jojo Moyes
“She lay there on a bed that inexorably became a bed of ashes and hot coals, while her imagination dwelt on every conceivable disaster, from his having forsaken her for another woman to his having, somehow, ended up in the morgue. And as the night faded from black to gray to daylight, the telephone b…”— James Baldwin, amazon.com
“Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.”— Anaïs Nin, amazon.com
“Let’s, first of all, be clear: It is more important that I’m Michelle’s husband than that I’m President of the United States.”— Barack Obama, whitehouse.gov
“I get down on my knees every morning and give eternal thanks for the existence of girls in a otherwise pointless universe.”— Garth Ennis, amazon.com
“I don’t know what brings broken people together maybe damage seeks out damage the way stains on a mattress halo into one another the way stains on a mattress bleed into each other.”— Warsan Shire, goodreads.com
“Most of the people are homesick anyway, and a little lonely, and they hide themselves in their hair and are turned into flowers.”— Tove Jansson, moomin.com
“Why wasn’t friendship as good as a relationship? Why wasn’t it even better?”— Hanya Yanagihara, amazon.com
“Wear this, don't wear that. Do this chore now and do this chore when you get a chance and by that I mean now. And definitely, definitely give up the things you love fro me, so I will have proof that you love me best. It's the female pissing contest -- as we swan around our book clubs and our cocktai…”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.com
“Give me a man with a little fight in him, a man who calls me on my bullshit. (But who also kind of likes my bullshit.) And yet: Don't land me in one of those relationships where we're always pecking at each other, disguising insults as jokes, rolling our eyes and "playfully" scrapping in front of ou…”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.com
“The worst feeling: when you just have to wait and prepare yourself for the lie.”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.com
“You suffer through the night with the perfect-on-paper man. The stutter of jokes misunderstood, the witty remarks lobbed and missed. Or maybe he understands that you’ve made a witty remark but, unsure of what to do with it, he holds it in his hand like some bit of conversational phlegm he will wipe…”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.com
“So I know I am right not to settle, but it doesn’t make me feel better as my friends pair off and I stay home on Friday night with a bottle of wine and make myself an extravagant meal and tell myself, This is perfect, as if I’m the one dating me.”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.com
“Don't be discouraged - every relationship you have is a failure, until you find the right one.”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.com