“When you meet a man in the doorway of a Mexican restaurant who later kisses you while explaining that this kiss doesn’t ‘mean anything’ because, much as he likes you, he is not interested in having a relationship with you or anyone right now, just laugh and kiss him back. Your daughter will have his…”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com
“What happened to me is something that happens to many women after a toxic relationship and crushing breakup: I internalized faulty beliefs about myself and never challenged them.”— Sabrina Alexis, amazon.com
“Instead of feeling sorry for myself because I couldn’t get him to commit in the way I wanted, I felt sorry for him for having so many issues, issues that prevented him from committing to a great woman he had right in front of him.”— Sabrina Alexis, amazon.com
“Why was I so wrapped up in getting inside his head? The reason, I believe, is that getting lost in his drama was an escape from dealing with my own.”— Sabrina Alexis, amazon.com
“I realized that with Kevin I felt less alone and maybe a little understood. Like me, he was a little lost and hurt, and that made me feel better in my own world of lost and hurt.”— Sabrina Alexis, amazon.com
“As soon as you’re in that place where you are your best self and you mirror the qualities you want, you’ll notice an instant change in your love life; you’ll find that you can easily get the kind of guy and the kind of relationship you’ve always wanted.”— Sabrina Alexis, amazon.com
“You need to know your values, your boundaries, your fundamental needs, your wants, what you can compromise on, and what your absolute deal-breakers are.”— Sabrina Alexis, amazon.com
“If a guy leaves when things get a little rocky, it means he is lacking in the most important quality you need in a partner, and that is a man who is committed not only to you, but to making it work.”— Sabrina Alexis, amazon.com
“Infatuation causes you to fall in love with an image rather than an actual person. It causes you to put someone on a pedestal and overlook his flaws. Since he’s so ‘perfect,’ you become afraid to be yourself— I mean, how could your true self ever compete with perfection?”— Sabrina Alexis, amazon.com
“You can’t force someone to change and to want what you want. You can’t convince someone to feel a certain way about you.”— Sabrina Alexis, amazon.com
“If you're gonna leave, I wish you'd just leave. Why do you keep coming back if you're not going to stay? Because even when you're gone, you're never really gone... I won't get over it if you keep coming back.”— Brodi Ashton, amazon.com
“It is because I think so much of warm and sensitive hearts, that I would spare them from being wounded.”— Charles Dickens, amazon.com
“Sometimes it takes a heartbreak to shake us awake & help us see we are worth so much more than we're settling for.”— Mandy Hale, amazon.com
“Did I really want to stay on this road longer, knowing it was only going to end in devastation?”— Becca Fitzpatrick, amazon.com
“The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it...”— Nicholas Sparks, amazon.com
“Men want to fix you save you or fuck you. I can’t be fixed and I don’t care to be saved.”— Jeanann Verlee, amazon.com
“Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.”— Mark Twain, goodreads.com
“she gave all that she had she tried when you didn't and she'll walk away knowing that in the end you were not worthy of her love.”— R.H. Sin, amazon.com