“These are the dreams we should be having. I shouldn’t have to clean them up like this.”— Richard Siken, amazon.com
“I am tired of being taken for granted. If only I could get back a fraction of what I give. But my efforts go unrecognized, and my soul keeps wishing to be noticed, to be valued; to be understood.”— Lang Leav, facebook.com
“Tell me every terrible thing you ever did, and let me love you anyway.”— Sade Andria Zabala, facebook.com
“The biggest challenge of being in a relationship is relearning to be comfortable. I am in my element only when I am miserable.”— Sade Andria Zabala, facebook.com
“I thought you understood me, but it was just me misunderstanding you.”— Michael Lipsey, stoicmike.tumblr.com
“So in my defense, when he touched me the lights of my body came on. In my defense, the windows were thrown open. In my defense... spring.”— Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz, thebakerypoetry.com
“It’s no good trying to get rid of your own aloneness. You’ve got to stick to it all your life. Only at times, at times, the gap will be filled in. At times! But you have to wait for the times. Accept your own aloneness and stick to it, all your life. And then accept the times when the gap is filled…”— D.H. Lawrence, amazon.com
“our toothbrushes sitting in a cup on the edge of the sink are the most intimate thing I have ever known.”— Fortesa Latifi, amazon.com
“I have been told that girls always fall for men like their fathers, but I found it a hard concept to grasp when he was always gone and I grew up on radio static and blackberry preserves.”— Trista Mateer, amazon.com
“If in life we can learn to identify the internal voices of our wounding that get provoked in relationships and to sabotage them, we can reclaim our true selves and behave more maturely in our relationships. Only then we will stand a chance at successful relationships and the gift of intimacy.”— Pia Mellody, Lawrence S. Freundlich, amazon.com
“People who doubt their own truth can never be real to their partner. They are always watching the partner so that they can adapt to the partner’s evaluation of the truth. 'No, tell me what you think of the situation,' is a favorite reply. They become who they think the partner needs them to be. Thei…”— Pia Mellody, Lawrence S. Freundlich, amazon.com
“Let’s skip the pleasantries and obligated polite remarks. I want to know you... Tell me. I am not afraid of your ghosts.”— Myrtle Yvonne, germmagazine.com
“Growing apart doesn’t change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I’m glad for that.”— Ally Condie, amazon.com
“She might be your type. But I'm the exact font. I am outside your window. Throw down your hair. I mean the hair you pulled from the drain when you were cleaning your tub. I want everything you have ever tried to wash away. The first time you were bullied in junior high. The last time you blushed fro…”— Andrea Gibson, amazon.com
“I'm afraid that something will reveal itself once we’ve exchanged our vows, and suddenly my life will be worse than when I was alone.”— Anonymous, facebook.com
“Nothing ever ends poetically. It ends and we turn it into poetry. All that blood was never once beautiful. It was just red.”— Kait Rokowski, chrissystockton.com