“Someone has to leave first. This is a very old story. There is no other version of this story.”— Richard Siken, amazon.com
“What was it like to love him? Asked Gratitude. It was like being exhumed, I answered, and brought to life in a flash of brilliance. What was it like to be loved in return? Asked Joy. It was like being seen after a perpetual darkness, I replied. To be heard after a lifetime of silence. What was it li…”— Lang Leav, amazon.com
“You must not reduce yourself to a puddle just because the person you like is afraid to swim and you are a fierce sea to them; because there will be someone who was born with love of the waves within their blood, and they will look at you with fear and respect.”— T.B. LaBerge, tblaberge.tumblr.com
“It's sad isn't it? I once thought worlds of you and now you're just another lesson.”— Beau Taplin, afadthatlastsforever.tumblr.com
“I cannot believe her when she says I am beautiful. She cannot want me, not the way I want her. My want is an Empire State Building I monster-climb with her clutched in my fist. They make old, flickering horror movies about the way I look at her mouth.”— Clementine Von Radics, amazon.com
“I did not beg him to stay because I was begging God that he would not leave.”— Warsan Shire, warsanshirepoetryreblogs.tumblr.com
“Sometimes we just have to cut off the dead branches in our life. Sometimes that's the only way we can keep the tree alive. It's hard and it hurts, but it's what's best.”— Nicole Williams, amazon.com
“Because there's nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline, no matter how many times it's sent away.”— Sarah Kay, ted.com
“We can’t be so desperate for love that we forget where we can always find it; within.”— ALEXANDRA ELLE, goodreads.com
“I had never been in a committed relationship with anything except anxiety.”— Whitney Cummings, amazon.com
“Sometimes people walk away from love because it is so beautiful that it terrifies them. Sometimes they leave because the connection shines a bright light on their dark places and they are not ready to work them through. Sometimes they run away because they are not developmentally prepared to merge w…”— Jeff Brown, goodreads.com
“A relationship should not be measured in months or years. It's the calibre of the memories that matter. Their impact, their permanence, and the degree to which they change you. I've had relationships lasting years I can now scarcely recollect, and hours with others that feel like infinities.”— Beau Taplin, goodreads.com
“Loving someone means taking the risk that they might fuck up your nicely ordered little life.”— Mark Haddon, amazon.com
“Now people are books to me. I read them from cover to cover and toss them aside. I devour them, one after the other. And the more I read, the more insatiable I become. There is no limit to it.”— Henry Miller, amazon.com