“Stay away from the ones you love too much. Those are the ones who will kill you.”— Donna Tartt, amazon.com
“She may have looked normal on the outside, but once you'd seen her handwriting you knew she was deliciously complicated inside.”— Jeffrey Eugenides, amazon.com
“I was naturally a loner, content just to live with a woman, eat with her, sleep with her, walk down the street with her.”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“Goodness could be found sometimes in the middle of hell. We passed the bottle back and forth as I waited for the cab.”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“I like to think that somewhere out there, on a planet exactly like ours, two people exactly like you and me made totally different choices and that somewhere, we're still together. That's enough for me.”— Iain Thomas, amazon.ca
“I'm all out of midnight phone calls and flowers sent to your door. I'm out of throwing letters off fire escapes and drawing a cathedral in the sand. I'm out of spray-painting your name on freeway overpasses. I'm low on cute names given between blankets at 9am. I've got no dramatic displays of public…”— Iain Thomas, amazon.ca
“The person who is best suited to us is not the person who shares our every taste (he or she doesn’t exist), but the person who can negotiate differences in taste intelligently — the person who is good at disagreement. Rather than some notional idea of perfect complementarity, it is the capacity to t…”— Alain de Botton, nytimes.com
“Choosing whom to commit ourselves to is merely a case of identifying which particular variety of suffering we would most like to sacrifice ourselves for.”— Alain de Botton, nytimes.com
“I went out with a guy who once told me I didn’t need to drink to make myself more fun to be around. I told him, I’m drinking so that you’re more fun to be around.”— Chelsea Handler, amazon.com
“I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough..”— Nicholas Sparks, amazon.com
“Online, we don’t have access to social cues. There’s no one on the receiving end of our jabs and tirades and vitriol. All we see are words on a screen in a text box. Empathy is null and void. Sometimes, I write things down that I think and feel and post them on the internet. Maybe you like to cook f…”— Stephanie Wittels Wachs, medium.com
“It was only vanity and discouragement that sometimes made me feel alone with my endless love, but now that I was taking one of the risks my heart had urged upon me I could also feel I was not alone. If endless love was a dream, then it was a dream we all shared, even more than we all shared the drea…”— Scott Spencer, amazon.com
“Boys and girls in America have such a sad time together; sophistication demands that they submit to sex immediately without proper preliminary talk. Not courting talk — real straight talk about souls, for life is holy and every moment is precious.”— Jack Kerouac, amazon.com
“Any fool can love somebody who’s perfect, somebody who does everything right. But that doesn’t stretch your soul. Your soul only gets stretched when you can still love somebody after they’ve hurt you.”— Susan Elizabeth Phillips, amazon.com