“It's hard to show people everything, you know? You never know what they'll do with it once they have it.”— Nick Burd, amazon.com
“I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each should stand guard over the solitude of the other.”— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com
“Relationships are all about trust and equality. If one person shares, then the other person should share, too.”— Sophie Kinsella, amazon.com
“I don't like to feel so crazy about someone. I don't like to feel like my happiness is so tied up in another person.”— Gabrielle Zevin, amazon.com
“Sooner or later, we must all accept the fact that in a relationship, the only person you are dealing with is yourself.”— Iyanla Vanzant, amazon.com
“I've spent most of my life and most of my friendships holding my breath and hoping that when people get close enough they won't leave, and fearing that it's a matter of time before they figure me out and go.”— Shauna Niequist, amazon.com
“I wish I knew how to love someone without killing myself. How to mend hearts without breaking my own. How to Kiss and not create bruises.”— Michelle K., michellekpoems.tumblr.com
“Don’t date the most beautiful girl in the world, Date the girl that make your world the most beautiful.”— Wiz Khalifa, goodreads.com
“That is the saddest part when you lose someone you love – that person keeps changing. And later you wonder..is this the same person I lost?”— Amy Tan, amazon.com
“It doesn't matter if it's a relationship, a lifestyle, or a job. If it doesn't make you happy let it go.”— William Chapman, williamchapmanwritings.tumblr.com
“If you can just stop loving her then you never really loved her at all. Love doesn't work that way. If you ever truly love someone, then it never goes away. It can become something else. There are all different sorts of love. It can even become hate- a thin line and all that- and, really, hate is ju…”— Blakney Francis, amazon.com
“A soulmate is a meeting of mind, spirit and body with someone whose strengths, flaws and energy perfectly complement your own. It is steady ground, a shelter in a storm, a point on a map when you are wayward and lost–the promise of a place to come home to for as long as you are here in the world.”— Beau Taplin, afadthatlastsforever.tumblr.com
“It's strange isn't it, how the idea of belonging to someone can sound so great? It can be comforting, the way it makes things decided. We like the tough of being held, until it's too tight. We like that certainty, until it means there's no way out. And we like being his, until we realize we're not o…”— Deb Caletti, amazon.com
“I promise to stand by your side and make you a stronger person, even if it takes all the strength I've got.”— William Chapman, williamchapmanwritings.tumblr.com
“You'd rather make up a fantasy version of somebody in your head than be with a real person.”— Jenny Han, amazon.com
“Love has nothing to do with what you're looking at and everything to do with who's looking.”— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com