“It's the same old story. Boy finds girl, boy loses girl, girl finds boy, boy forgets girl, boy remembers girl, girls dies in a tragic blimp accident over the Orange Bowl on New Year's Day.”— Frank Drebin, amazon.com
“If you want stable love, you have to be stable yourself.You have to know what you want from life even if you’re not there, you have to understand what you want out of a relationship even if you’ve never been in one and you have to be consistent with the love you give to others to receive consistency…”— Rania Naim, thoughtcatalog.com
“To love me is to love a haunted house. It’s fun to visit once a year but no one wants to live there.”— Brenna Twohy, brennatwohy.tumblr.com
“Loneliness does not come from being alone, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important.”— Carl Gustav Jung, amazon.com
“I want someone to laugh with. To stay up late with and talk about dreams. To go on adventures with, big or small. To sip wine and make breakfast together, and feel like we know every little thing about each other’s lives.”— Marisa Donnelly, thoughtcatalog.com
“Sometimes life is too hard to be alone, and sometimes life is too good to be alone.”— Elizabeth Gilbert, amazon.com
“This isn’t a story about how some guy finally saves me from myself. I’m my own hero here; I do the saving.”— Kerry Cohen, amazon.com
“Both of them were uncertain; both of them were trying as much as they could; both of them would doubt themselves, would progress and recede. But they would both keep trying, because they trusted the other, and because the other person was the only other person who ever be worth such hardships, such…”— Hanya Yanagihara, amazon.com
“COUPLES ARE MORE LIKELY TO STAY TOGETHER, AND THEIR RELATIONSHIPS ARE MORE LIKELY TO SUCCEED, WHEN THEY TURN TOWARD EACH OTHER INSTEAD OF AWAY.”— Julia Dellitt, theeverygirl.com
“Nobody loved her and she wouldn’t have liked it if they had, for she considered love a serious disability.”— Toni Morrison, amazon.com
“He is such a beautiful man, but I do not tell him this. He would take it the wrong way. It is a strange thing in some men, this fear of their own beauty.”— Roxane Gay, amazon.com
“I sit up in the dark drenched in longing. I am carrying over a thousand names for blue that I didn’t have at dusk.”— Joy Harjo, amazon.com
“Being abused can seriously affect your ability to distinguish between “not obviously pleased” and “obviously displeased” because abusers go from Neutral to Hostile for absolutely no discernible reason, and eventually you start worrying that everyone is going to be like that and you start feeling thi…”— Anonymous, iwonderwhatsfordinner.tumblr.com
“Sometimes it’s like people are a million times more beautiful to you in your mind. It’s like you see them through a special lens.”— Jenny Han, amazon.com