“WE need to swap the Romantic view for a tragic (and at points comedic) awareness that every human will frustrate, anger, annoy, madden and disappoint us — and we will (without any malice) do the same to them. There can be no end to our sense of emptiness and incompleteness.”— Alain de Botton, nytimes.com
“We should learn to accommodate ourselves to “wrongness,” striving always to adopt a more forgiving, humorous and kindly perspective on its multiple examples in ourselves and in our partners.”— Alain de Botton, nytimes.com
“Don’t trust people who don’t support you as you try to grow into a more mature and self-realized person. Don’t confide in people who aren’t as interested in your triumphs as they are in your downfalls.”— Danielle Mertina, fweakofcydonia.tumblr.com
“Asking a new person to go on a romantic outing has never been easy. It means declaring your attraction to someone and putting yourself out there in a huge way, while risking the brutal possibility of rejection -- or, in the modern era, even an unexplained, icy-cold silence.”— Aziz Ansari, amazon.com
“‘Well,’ the Goddess said, 'your heart didn’t heal straight the last time it broke. So we’ll break it again and reset it so it heals straight this time.’”— Jane Yolen, amazon.com
“The foundation of adult trust is not “You will never hurt me.” It is “I trust myself with whatever you do.”— David Richo, amazon.com
“It’s not the changes that will break your heart; it’s that tug of familiarity.”— Jennifer E. Smith, amazon.com
“Well, let it pass, he thought; April is over, April is over. There are all kinds of love in the world, but never the same love twice.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“The person you loved took a good long look at the awesomeness that is you, evaluated your relationship together, and said, “No, thanks. I’ll try my luck elsewhere.” That alone should make you realize that it wasn’t a match made in heaven.”— Greg Behrendt, amazon.com
“I got lost in him, and it was the kind of lost that’s exactly like being found.”— Claire LaZebnik, amazon.com
“You can forget that other people carry pieces of your own story around in their heads. I’ve always thought—put together all those random pieces form everyone whose ever known you, from your parents to the guy who once sat next to you on a bus, and you’d probably see a fuller version of your life tha…”— Deb Caletti, amazon.com
“Hey, wait. Well, love after all is a habit like any other. A habit, maybe. Like any other, no.”— Renata Adler, amazon.com
“What if you didn’t run? This one time. What if you stayed, and let love overtake you?”— Dr. Joshua Bennett, twitter.com
“When you’re in your 20s, you change. A lot. I know this sounds ridiculous, but like I’m 26 and whenever I meet someone who’s 22 or 23 — even if I love them — I’m just like, “Go back into the oven because you aren’t done yet.” Three years do make a major difference in your 20s because every year is l…”— Ryan O'Connell, thoughtcatalog.com
“To love again, you must not discard what has happened to you, but take from it the strength you’ll need to carry on.”— Simon Van Booy, amazon.com
“People will disappoint you and wrong you, but they will also defend you and fight for you and bowl you over with kindness. We are all such radiant fuckups — we have to remember this and love one another for it. And even when it seems impossible, we have to be good to one another, to extend an open h…”— Cody Gohl, thoughtcatalog.com