“How easy it was to lie to strangers, to create with strangers the versions of our lives we imagined.”— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, amazon.com
“She wanted to tell him, “There is no week that passed that I did not think of you.” But was that true? Of course there were weeks during which he was folded under layers of her life, but it felt true.”— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, amazon.com
“She found it so attractive, his shortness, his solid firm shortness. She saw, in his shortness, a groundedness; he could weather anything, he would not easily be swayed.”— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, amazon.com
“She found this foolishly exciting, that it was raining where she was and it was not raining where he was, only minutes from her, and so she waited, with impatience, with a charged delight, until they could both see the rain together.”— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, amazon.com
“did she love you? only as an extension of herself. what else can love be?”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“We were never good mornings because to have a good morning you have to stay the night. We were never just between us smiles because there was never really an us to begin with. We were never holding hands because one of us was always pulling away.”— Kendra Syrdal, thoughtcatalog.com
“I never felt right being alone; sometimes it felt good but it never felt right.”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“The trees like lungs filling with air My sister, the mean one, pulling my hair”— Jeffrey Eugenides, amazon.com
“Human relationships were strange. I mean, you were with one person a while, eating and sleeping and living with them, loving them, talking to them, going places together, and then it stopped.”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“I’d found out that if you pushed people away hard enough, they tended to go.”— Morgan Matson, amazon.com
“I do my thing and you do yours. I am not in this world to live up to your expectations, and you are not in this world to live up to mine. You are you and I am I, and if by chance we find each other, then it is beautiful. If not, it can’t be helped.”— Fritz Perls, echopen.wordpress.com
“This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.”— Elizabeth Gilbert, amazon.com
“This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.”— Elizabeth Gilbert, amazon.com
“It would require constant vigilance to not replace each person with my own fictional version of them.”— Miranda July, amazon.com
“Given the right psychological conditions, a person could fall in love with anyone.”— Miranda July, amazon.com
“If you were wise enough to know that this life would consist mostly of letting go of things you wanted, then why not get good at the letting go, rather than the trying to have?”— Miranda July, amazon.com
“He's made me believe I'm worth love of the liquid kind, you know, the kind that seeps to all my damaged parts.”— Zandile Funde, amazon.com