“noninclusive, adj.: You say of course I’m your type, but I often feel like I’m your typo.”— David Levithan, twitter.com
“nonexclusivity, n.: We both feel the pull of attraction elsewhere, but can’t let it pull us too far away from each other.”— David Levithan, twitter.com
“nonesuch, n.: You will never be perfect or even perfect for me, but you will be good enough to love, and that will be perfectly what I want.”— David Levithan, twitter.com
“Some people are like clouds when they disappear, the sun can shine in our lives.”— Paulo Coelho, twitter.com
“what many consider 'ordinary people' are the ones who will change our lives”— Paulo Coelho, twitter.com
“For some reason, she didn't want to read in front of him. It would be like letting him watch her eat.”— Rainbow Rowell, amazon.com
“While we loved each other we didn’t need words to make ourselves understood. But people don’t love forever. A time came when I should have found the words to keep her with me—only I couldn’t.”— Albert Camus, amazon.com
“Leave him in-between the pages. Leave him hanging off the last sentence of the last poem's last stanza. Leave him; you deserve a good night's sleep.”— Lora Mathis, loramathis.com
“This step forward (at first right against the will of the men who are left behind) will transform the experiences of love, which is now full of error, alter it root and branch, reshape it into a relation between two human beings and no longer between man and woman. And this more human form of love (…”— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com
“...love your solitude and bear the pain it causes you with melody wrought with lament. For the people who are close to you, you tell me, are far away, and that shows that you are beginning to create a wider space around you...take pleasure in your growth, which no one can accompany you, and be kind-…”— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com
“Every true love and friendship is a story of unexpected transformation. If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we haven't loved enough.”— Elif Shafak, amazon.com
“It's hard to communicate anything exactly and that's why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.”— Gustave Flaubert, amazon.com
“And now we're supposed to go back to our normal lives. That's what people do. They have these amazing experiences with another person, and then they just go home and clean the bathroom or whatever.”— Susane Colasanti, amazon.com
“I could fall in love with a cruel desert that kills without passion, a canyon full of scorpions, one thousand blinding arctic storms, a century sealed in a cave, a river of molten salt flowing down my throat. But never with you.”— Henry Rollins, amazon.com
“I want to get to know you once for all, and I want you to know me. And then say good-bye. I believe it's always best to get to know people just before leaving them. I've noticed how you've been looking at me. There has been a continual look of expectation in your eyes, and I can't endure that. That'…”— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, amazon.com