“Why don’t you tell me that, ‘if the girl had been worth having she’d have waited for you?' 'No, sir, the girl really worth having won’t wait for anybody.'”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“I don’t even want a boyfriend. I just want someone who wants to hang out all the time, and thinks I’m the best person in the world, and wants to have sex with only me.”— Lena Dunham as Hannah Horvath, amazon.com
“One thing I am certain of, I do not want to be betrayed, but that’s quite hard to say, casually, at the beginning of a relationship. It’s not a word people use very often, which confuses me, because there are different kinds of infidelity, but betrayal is betrayal wherever you find it. By betrayal,…”— Jeanette Winterson, amazon.com
“Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.”— Erica Jong, amazon.com
“Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn’t have to invent a thing.”— Jonathan Safran Foer, amazon.com
“There ain’t no way you can hold onto something that wants to go, you understand? You can only love what you got while you got it.”— Kate DiCamillo, amazon.com
“Love is like a narcotic. At first it brings the euphoria of complete surrender. The next day, you want more. You’re not addicted yet, but you like the sensation, and you think you can still control things. You think about the person you love for two minutes, and forget them for three hours. But then…”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“Love is always new. Regardless of whether we love once, twice, or a dozen times in our life, we always face a brand-new situation. Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere. We simply have to accept it, because it is what nourishes our existence. If we reject it, w…”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“And that's when I know it's over. As soon as you start thinking about the beginning, it's the end.”— Junot Dìaz, amazon.com
“So what I’m trying to say is you should text me back. Because there’s a precedent. Because there’s an urgency. Because there’s a bedtime. Because when the world ends I might not have my phone charged and if you don’t respond soon, I won’t know if you’d wanna leave your shadow next to mine.”— Marina Keegan, amazon.com
“When you start to know someone, all their physical characteristics start to disappear. You begin to dwell in their energy, recognize the scent of their skin. You see only the essence of the person, not the shell. That’s why you can’t fall in love with beauty. You can lust after it, be infatuated by…”— Lisa Unger, amazon.com
“Maybe you scare them because you don’t need them. Because they know you can survive without them, because they know that you won’t wait for them.”— Rania Naim, thoughtcatalog.com
“I want someone I can be completely myself around. I want to wake up in the morning, hair all sleepy and messy around my face, makeup off, baggy t-shirt on, and not feel like I have to be anything I’m not.”— Marisa Donnelly, thoughtcatalog.com
“But sometimes your light attracts moths and your warmth attracts parasites. Protect your space and energy.”— Warsan Shire, thoughtcatalog.com
“I want you to add to the life I’ve built for myself, not create one for me.”— Ashley Jones, thoughtcatalog.com
“I get way too sensitive when I get attached to someone. I can detect the slightest change in the tone of their voice, and suddenly I’m spending all day trying to figure out what I did wrong.”— Anonymous, humansofnewyork.com
“I want to speak sunlight but I can only speak thunderstorms that make people run away from me.”— Alexa Evangelista, krowkadile.tumblr.com