“A guy once told me "a man is only insecure about a woman when he knows she deserves better" and that really hit me.”— ALMOND, twitter.com
“I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness.”— Anaïs Nin, amazon.com
“We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.”— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, amazon.com
“Soon we will be strangers. No, we can never be that. Hurting someone is an act of reluctant intimacy. We will be dangerous acquaintances with a history.”— Hanif Kureishi, amazon.com
“Love one another, but make not a bond of love. Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.”— Khalil Gibran, amazon.com
“We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of luck. But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness.”— Ellen Goodman, amazon.com
“I don’t think relationships are just physicality. There are ways to show you care about someone, not just using your lips… Or any other body part.”— Jenny Han, amazon.com
“There are people you meet that you get to know, and then there are people you meet that you already know.”— Colleen Hoover, amazon.com
“When you’re an introvert like me and you’ve been lonely for a while, and then you find someone who understands you, you become really attached to them. It’s a real release.”— Lana Del Rey, complex.com
“It’s more like you meet someone, and you fall in love, and you hope that that person is the one—and then at some point, you have to put down your chips. You just have to make a commitment and hope that you’re right.”— Rainbow Rowell, amazon.com
“She was forced to consider the startling fact that the love of her life might not actually be someone with whom she could spend a lifetime.”— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com
“Sometimes it’s the little things that bring that special someone back to us in some small way.”— Kasie West, amazon.com
“If you can love the wrong one so much, just imagine how much you can love the right one.”— James Carson, amazon.com
“We have to learn to be our own best friends because we fall too easily into the trap of being our own worst enemies.”— Roderick Thorp, amazon.com
“The sweetest part of being a couple is sharing your life with someone else.”— Charlaine Harris, amazon.com