“...we're meant to lose the people we love. How else would we know how important they are to us?”— Eric Roth, Mrs. Maple, Edith Ivey, amazon.com
“You’d rather make up a fantasy version of somebody in your head than be with a real person.”— Jenny Han, amazon.com
“Once someone has let you go emotionally, it's over, no matter how tightly or desperately you commit to hang on. Better to release yourself from the relationship with your dignity intact, than fight a losing battle and risk lasting damage to your heart.”— Beau Taplin, afadthatlastsforever.tumblr.com
“I want deeper connections with the people around me. I need to reach out more. Because not everyone leaves. Sometimes if you reach out, the person you’re trying to reach will be right there waiting.”— Susane Colasanti, amazon.com
“We are sitting on your bed, there is distance between us and the silence is suffocating me. I am holding my knees to my chest. My body is shaking; you are quiet. I ask you if you still love me, and you tell me that you are not sure that you ever did.”— Mariah Gordon-Dyke, venula.tumblr.com
“What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them.”— T. S. Eliot, amazon.com
“Sometimes I touch the things you used to touch, looking for echoes of your fingers.”— Iain Thomas, amazon.com
“There are some people who could hear you speak a thousand words, and still not understand you. And there are others who will understand — without you even speaking a word.”— Yasmin Mogahed, m.facebook.com
“We’ve loved each other all our lives. But in the end, we can’t stay together forever.”— Kazuo Ishiguro, amazon.com
“Stars should not be seen alone. That’s why there are so many. Two people should stand together and look at them. One person alone will surely miss the good ones.”— Augusten Burroughs, amazon.com
“I want you to make a list of all of your favorite things, and I want to be on it.”— Tahereh Mafi, amazon.com
“People who truly love us can be divided into two categories: those who understand us, and those who forgive us our worst sins. Rarely do you find someone capable of both.”— Jonathan Carroll, amazon.com
“You have to work at relationships. You can’t just walk out on them every time something goes wrong.”— Nick Hornby, amazon.com
“Nothing is worse than when someone who’s supposed to love you just leaves.”— Ava Dellaira, amazon.com
“And you know what else? I don’t owe people anything, and I don’t have to talk to them any more than I feel I need to.”— Ned Vizzini, amazon.com
“Falling in love was simple; one had only to yield. Digesting another person, however, and sustaining love, was bloody work, and not a soft job.”— Hanif Kureishi, amazon.com
“New friends can often have a better time together than old friends.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com