“I have this strange feeling that I’m not myself anymore. It’s hard to put into words, but I guess it’s like I was fast asleep, and someone came, disassembled me, and hurriedly put me back together again. That sort of feeling.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“You never come back, not all the way. Always there is an odd distance between you and the people you love and the people you meet, a barrier thin as the glass of a mirror, you never come all the way out of the mirror; you stand, for the rest of your life, with one foot in this world and one in anoth…”— Marya Hornbacher, amazon.com
“We'll FaceTime and she'll come down and visit me on set. There's times that a text is appropriate. Other times you need to talk on the phone. The problem with people texting all the time is that if you're texting somebody everything you're doing throughout the day, there's no catch up. It removes th…”— Miles Teller, elle.com
“That it always takes two. For relationships to work, for them to break apart, for them to be fixed.”— Emily Giffin, amazon.com
“People disappeared, reappeared, made plans to go somewhere, and then lost each other, searched for each other, found each other a few feet away.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“Human relationships are strange. I mean, you are with one person a while, eating and sleeping and living with them, loving them, talking to them, going places together, and then it stops.”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“I don’t wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to someone.”— Javan, amazon.com
“I don’t suppose you have many friends. Neither do I. I don’t trust people who say they have a lot of friends. It’s a sure sign that they don’t really know anyone.”— Carlos Ruiz Zafon, amazon.com
“...you can know the whole world and still feel lost in it. So many people are in pain-no matter how smart or accomplished-they cry, they yearn, they hurt... we all want the same things: comfort, love, and a peaceful heart.”— Mitch Albom, amazon.com
“Date someone who cares about the thoughts that bother you. Someone who knows the meaning behind your silence. Someone who reaches out to you when you’re pulling yourself away from everyone.”— Angelo Caerlang, thoughtcatalog.com
“Love is not asking people to change. It’s not about finding someone who has changed, will change, or is changed enough to be perfect for you. And the reverse is true; someone who loves you shouldn’t demand that you be a different person in order for the relationship to work. You shouldn’t be require…”— Marisa Donnelly, thoughtcatalog.com
“Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.”— André Breton, amazon.com
“His job was not to be with you forever no his job was to be the one who loved you so sweetly and so deeply that you are unable to deny the love you denied yourself your whole life.”— Janne Robinson, thoughtcatalog.com
“The man I wish to wake up beside will not play games with me, for he knows there is freedom in being chosen.”— Janne Robinson, thoughtcatalog.com
“People always say that, when you love someone, nothing in the world matters. But that’s not true, is it? You know, and I know, that when you love someone, everything in the world matters a little bit more.”— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com
“Stay single until you meet someone who takes the relationship as seriously as you do.”— Lacey Ramburger, thoughtcatalog.com
“I like people too much or not at all. I’ve got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com
“You don’t just walk away from someone when things get tough, you find a way to stick it out and figure out what’s gone wrong.”— Shana Norris, amazon.com
“Someone once told me that human beings have three dimensions: how you see yourself, how others see you, and how you want others to see you. The closer the distance between the three dimensions, the more at peace you are and the more stable you become.”— Marwa Rakha, amazon.com