“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
“We fall in love with one version of someone and we expect them to stay that way, but they never do.”— Olivia WIlde, huffingtonpost.com
“You can’t find intimacy—you can’t find home—when you’re always hiding behind masks. Intimacy requires a certain level of vulnerability. It requires a certain level of you exposing your fragmented, contradictory self to someone else. You running the risk of having your core self rejected and hurt and…”— Junot Dìaz, identitytheory.com
“I am yours. If I died this moment, I am yours. Forget me. Forget me and love me again as you did the first time. Forget me and come back to me again.”— James Joyce, amazon.com
“There are two kinds of love…in the safe kind you look for someone who’s exactly like you. It’s what most folks settle for. But then there’s the other kind of love. Everyone’s born with a ragged edge, and some folks crave that piece that’s a perfect fit. You’ll search for it forever, if you have to.…”— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com
“I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change…often.”— Anaïs Nin, the-goodsin.tumblr.com
“Because his task was not finished, I felt that I must re-dedicate myself to the completion of his work.”— Coretta Scott King, en.wikiquote.org
“‘I’m your girl,’ she said in the dark. 'Your girl. No matter what I’m always your girl.’”— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com
“I did not love you out or boredom or loneliness or caprice. I loved you because the desire for you was stronger than any happiness.”— Alessandro Baricco, amazon.com
“It’s one thing to fall in love. It’s another to feel someone else fall in love with you, and to feel a responsibility toward that love.”— David Levithan, amazon.com
“It was because they were two parts of a whole. He did not belong to her. And she did not belong to him. It was never about belonging to someone. It was about belonging together.”— Renee Ahdieh, amazon.com
“She’s confused and afraid to commit to the wrong thing, so she won’t commit to anything”— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com
“He told me he was afraid of commitment with thirteen tattoos on his body.”— Michelle K., michellekpoems.tumblr.com
“Think of the first time you slept with someone, or the first time you fell in love: that blinding explosion that left you crackling to the fingertips with electricity, initiated and transformed. I tell you that was nothing, nothing at all, beside the power of putting your lives, simply and daily, in…”— Tana French, amazon.com
“Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?”— Toni Morrison, amazon.com
“He told me he was afraid of commitment with thirteen tattoos on his body.”— Michelle K., michellekpoems.tumblr.com