“I don’t know how to love without using my whole heart. I don’t know what its like to love someone ‘half way’. I practice giving love in the same way I’d like to receive it.”— Reyna Biddy, amazon.com
“You are not broken. You can love and be loved, despite what may feel like the eternally brutal nature of the world. Even when you're drowning and so far under, there is always time to reach for someone who will teach you how to breathe again.”— Jessica Park, amazon.com
“Maybe that’s what it all comes down to. Love, not as a surge of passion, but as a choice to commit to something, someone, no matter what obstacles or temptations stand in the way. And maybe making that choice, again and again, day in and day out, year after year, says more about love than never havi…”— Emily Giffin, amazon.com
“The problem was that I craved intimacy to the same degree that I detested commitment.”— Amanda Palmer, amazon.com
“A soulmate is a meeting of mind, spirit and body with someone whose strengths, flaws and energy perfectly complement your own. It is steady ground, a shelter in a storm, a point on a map when you are wayward and lost–the promise of a place to come home to for as long as you are here in the world.”— Beau Taplin, afadthatlastsforever.tumblr.com
“Commit to loving yourself completely. It’s the most radical thing you will do in your lifetime.”— Andrea Gibson, issuu.com
“You’re still trying to protect me. Real or not real,’ he whispers. ‘Real,’ I answer. 'Because that’s what you and I do, protect each other.”— Suzanne Collins, amazon.com
“Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.”— Robert Sternberg, goodreads.com
“If you put off making the commitment, you are more likely to stay committed longer.”— Hugh Hefner, amazon.com
“Do you know what your problem is? You can’t live with the idea that someone might leave.”— John Green, amazon.com
“I shall do one thing in this life - one thing certain - that is, love you, and long for you, and keep wanting you till I die.”— Thomas Hardy, amazon.com
“You can’t make any one person your world. The trick is to take what each can give you and build a world from it.”— Sarah Dessen, amazon.com
“Love grows from stable relationships, shared experience, loyalty, devotion, trust.”— Richard Wright, goodreads.com
“I don’t need someone to complete me, I need someone to make things a little bit better every now and again.”— Jon Richardson, goodreads.com