“Moving on isn’t about when you don’t remember anymore, it’s being okay even when you do.”— @perspicacioussithlord, wnq-writers.com
“it is very easy to tell me you love me when it is over and you are thousands of miles away... could you love me at your front door? i don't think you could.”— Melissa Broder, amazon.com
“You are so lucky to be best friends. Work hard at that. And respect that. Be patient. You don’t always have to be right. Even if you are, it doesn’t fucking matter anyway. Fight for it everyday. I wish I had.”— Rashida Jones, Celeste, amazon.com
“You can love somebody and it can change your life but it doesn’t mean that you’re necessarily right to be together forever, but that love will change your life forever. And that’s okay.”— Rashida Jones, ew.com
“When he comes home with pregnant knuckles, dripping blood all over the floor, I feel like a volcano of a wife. I am waiting for the tectonic plates below me to pose perfectly. I am waiting for the last straw, the last black eye or missing tooth I see before I pack my suitcase and he shows me the fro…”— Lydia Havens, freezeraypoetry.com
“i don’t know how to say thank you without saying fuck you.”— Lydia Havens, therisingphoenixreview.com
“The wound can have (should only have) just one proper name. I recognize that I love — you — by this: you leave in me a wound I do not want to replace.”— Jacques Derrida, amazon.com
“This is the last poem where you love me and how I learn to hate myself.”— Mtichell King, spilledmilkmagazine.com
“It’s not that he consumes me but that I consume myself, much like the ouroboros. I prepare for future suffering. I suffer today. I suffer so that the future suffering will feel like an old shoe. I’m a fish in a net, still living.”— Jade Quinn, spilledmilkmagazine.com
“When does a war end? When can I say your name and have it mean only your name and not what you left behind?”— Ocean Vuong, newyorker.com
“How terrible it was to still be mentally and emotionally attached to someone from whom you have been physically separated.”— Elif Shafak, amazon.com
“I tell myself I know nothing about love so I can recover. I am recovering from a fantasy that I projected on a young man's body. He provided music and language and fingers and a face that moaned into my pussy. I am never going to recover from being that alive.”— Melissa Broder, amazon.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
“I just don’t want you to worry about me, or think that you’ve met me, or waste your time anymore.”— Stephen Chbosky, amazon.com
“...the worst of having a romance of any kind is that it leaves one so unromantic.”— Oscar Wilde, amazon.com
“It’s funny how you never think about the women you’ve had. It’s always the ones who get away that you can’t forget.”— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com