“Every morning and every night, I lie in bed wondering why you’re not beside me.”— K.A. Tucker, amazon.com
“You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up.”— Louise Erdrich, amazon.com
“When you really love someone, you see all their mess and their brokenness and you love them anyway. In fact, seeing all of that sort of makes you love them more.”— Heather Hepler, amazon.com
“Part of falling in love with someone is actually falling in love with yourself. Realizing that you're gorgeous, you're fearless and unpredictable, you're a firecracker spitting light, entrancing a hundred faces that stare up at you with starry eyes.”— Leah Raeder, amazon.com
“Love is never supposed to hurt. Love is supposed to heal, to be your haven from misery, to make living fucking worthwhile.”— Mia Asher, amazon.com
“There's no need to wait for the bad things and bullshit to be over. Change now. Love now. Live now.”— Kris Carr, amazon.com
“You will never find the perfect person but you might be lucky enough to find someone who wants to be.”— J.S.B. Morse, amazon.com
“I am hard on myself. But isn’t it better to be honest about these things before someone else can use them against you? Before someone else can break your heart? Isn’t it better to break it yourself?”— Stephanie Perkins, amazon.com
“I delete the picture of him from my phone. I delete his number. I think that if I just delete him enough, it will be like none of it ever happened and my heart won't hurt so badly.”— Jenny Han, amazon.com
“I learned that I had no need to feel ashamed, that I could make amends for the wrongs I had done, that I could address the fear I had always fled, that I could re-evaluate my feelings of worthlessness.”— Russell Brand, amazon.com
“You remember your first love because they show you, prove to you, that you can love and be loved, that nothing in this world is deserved except for love, that love is both how and you become a person and why.”— John Green, amazon.com
“Be comfortable with being alone. Focus on making yourself better instead of looking for a better man.”— Sarah Dawn Pantalita, thoughtcatalog.com
“You are so much stronger than you have even begun to realize. You’re honest and caring. You’re hilarious and intelligent. You’re strong and compassionate. You’re beautiful, and you’re fucking powerful.”— Aly McHenry, thoughtcatalog.com
“Do not be confused. If he had truly wanted this he would not be leaving you with a broken heart to remember him by.”— Orenda, instagram.com
“Society's perfect doesn't exist, but if you find someone who loves you despite your flaws and accepts your imperfections, and you do the same for them, you've found your perfection right there.”— Saatwik M., instagram.com
“I do not regret loving you. I regret letting myself think you would ever love me the same way.”— Cheyenne Collins-Miller, thoughtcatalog.com
“When you love someone, you don’t leave when things get difficult, you don’t run away at the first sign of trouble. You put in even more effort than before. You become an even stronger team.”— Holly Riordan, thoughtcatalog.com
“Sometimes it’s better to just let things be, let people go, don’t fight for closure, don’t ask for explanations, don’t chase answers and don’t expect people to understand where you’re coming from.”— Rania Naim, thoughtcatalog.com