“You like someone who can't like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot.”— John Green, David Levithan, amazon.com
“I dislike the phrase 'Internet friends,' because it implies that people you know online aren't really your friends, that somehow the friendship is less real or meaningful to you because it happens through Skype or text messages. The measure of a friendship is not its physicality but its significance…”— John Green, amazon.com
“You cannot remove my scars or rewrite the past that haunts me. Just hold me tight and tell me everything is going to be okay.”— Michael Faudet, twitter.com
“I sound awful saying it but I think it can be like that. I see a lot of people in unstimulating relationships. And not just boyfriend-girlfriend relationships. They find themselves in stagnant friendships. If people were a little less scared [of ending things] they'd get more out of life… You meet t…”— Laura Marling, theguardian.com
“I know what it’s like. When you lose someone who is your home, you know, your only home in the world. When that happens, you think, oh fuck! I should’ve had a backup home. Another person, a place a thing, something to make me feel safe and I don’t have that… and now I’m lost.”— Matt Drake, Charlie Countryman, Shia LaBeouf, amazon.com
“I don't mess around or play games. I don't believe in them. I just want honesty. I'd rather wake up one morning and say "You know what? I had a really terrible dream that you were fucking somebody else. Can you just give me extra love today?" instead of getting in a fight about some stupid shit and…”— John Mayer, ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com
“I want to be the first thing you touch in the morning and the last thing you taste at night before you dream.”— K. Bromberg, amazon.com
“I never realized what a big deal that was. How amazing it is to find someone who wants to hear about all the things that go in your head. You just think that things will stay the way they are. You never look up, in a moment that feels like every other moment in your life, and think, Soon this will b…”— Nina LaCour, amazon.com
“I don't want to be a sweetheart. I want to be the fucking love of your life.”— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, amazon.com
“I realized that I was holding on to something that didn't exist anymore. That the person I missed didn't exist anymore. People change.”— Sarah Ockler, amazon.com
“There are a few great souls in my life. They are not many. They are few. You are one.”— Anne Sexton, amazon.com
“Let them miss you. Sometimes when you're always available, they take you for granted because they think you'll always stay.”— Unknown, simplereminders.com
“They want me. I want you. And you want someone else. But none of us wants to turn around.”— Iain Thomas, iwrotethisforyou.me
“don't settle for him because he thinks you're beautiful and you think no one else will find you beautiful...”— Warsan Shire, kalamu.com
“Whatever you love passionately always destroys you in the end. But how can I explain what has happened to me? How can I make anyone even understand that I can write about it? I don’t know, I don’t know any more; all I know is that it is so.”— Guy de Maupassant, amazon.com