“I wanna write ‘I miss you’ on a rock and throw at your face so you know how much it hurts to miss you.”— Anonymous, pinterest.com
“The only thing scarier than telling someone you love them is telling them that you still love them.”— Ella Dawson, medium.com
“The only way love can last a lifetime is if it's unconditional. The truth is this: love is not determined by the one being loved but rather by the one choosing to love.”— Stephen Kendrick, amazon.com
“Some relationships aren't meant to be Great Love; they're meant to be like a hot fudge sundae--enjoyable but not something you can actually live on.”— Kristin Chenoweth, amazon.com
“Falling in love for us meant falling into talk. We talked about our memories, broken bones, broken hearts and one broken marriage. We talked about our mothers, one Jewish and one Italian, constantly cooking and feeding. We talked about our fathers, neither of whom cooked or fed. We talked about frie…”— Molly Pascal, nytimes.com
“We were never the things that people write songs about or someone says, "That. I want that." We were the laundry piling up on the couch because no one bothered to put it away and dirty footprints on the tile because it was more fun to go out in the rain without shoes. We were cheap wine that led to…”— Kendra Syrdal, amazon.com
“Any woman that would complain about your standards being too high has probably already compromised her own. Any man that would complain about your standards being too high is more than likely used to dealing with women who have none.”— Mr. Amari Soul, amazon.com
“Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand.”— Leo Tolstoy, amazon.com
“There is nothing so mortifying as to fall in love with someone who does not share one's sentiments.”— Georgette Heyer, amazon.com
“Remember now and then that there is a man who would die to keep someone you love beside you”— Charles Dickens, amazon.com
“It's bullshit to think of friendship and romance as being different. They're not. They're just variations of the same love. Variations of the same desire to be close.”— Rachel Cohn, amazon.com
“Ah, if everyone was as sensitive as you! There's no girl who hasn't gone through that. And it's all so unimportant!”— Leo Tolstoy, amazon.com
“She loved him. But he didn’t know how to love. He could talk about love. He could see love and feel love. But he couldn’t give love. He could make love. But he couldn’t make promises.”— G.G Renee Hill, amazon.com
“They should tell you when you’re born: have a suitcase heart, be ready to travel.”— Gabrielle Zevin, goodreads.com
“Do you like me?’ No answer. Silence bounced, fell off his tongue and sat between us and clogged my throat. It slaughtered my trust. It tore cigarettes out of my mouth. We exchanged blind words, and I did not cry, I did not beg, but blackness filled my ears, blackness lunged in my heart, and somethin…”— Anne Sexton, poemhunter.com
“When it happens to you, you will be surprised. That thing they say about how you knew all the time but just weren't facing it? That might be the case, but nevertheless, there you will be. You will feel like you have been kicked in the stomach, that your insides have just separated to make room for s…”— Molly Ringwald, amazon.com
“The moment you make someone promise anything is the same moment you ask them to lie to you.”— Molly Ringwald, amazon.com
“Bad relationships are the ones filled with drama. The highs are higher and the lows are lower. When I say ‘bad relationship,’ I mean everything from a toxic, codependent situation to a relationship with a man who won’t commit in a significant way, to a match that is simply incompatible.”— Sabrina Alexis, amazon.com
“Men are not responsive to nagging or criticism, but they can be enormously receptive— and appreciative— when you tell them what makes you happy in a loving way.”— Sabrina Alexis, amazon.com