“I will text you first. I will make the effort to see you. I will always tell you how I feel, even if it means giving you the power to destroy me.”— Tyler Niles Verrall, thoughtcatalog.com
“She’ll stop loving you because she loves herself too much to care for someone who broke her heart.”— Liane White, thoughtcatalog.com
“You’ll be okay on your own. I believe in you. You don’t need to find love to feel good about yourself.”— Nicole Tarkoff, thoughtcatalog.com
“I am a motherfucking badass. I can survive anything. And I will thrive.”— Shahida Arabi, thoughtcatalog.com
“I’m almost 25, and I still feel like a kid. I don’t need the material things I thought I would want. I don’t need the boyfriend or the house. I don’t need even stability. I just need to keep experiencing everything. The good and the bad. The bright and the gloomy. I just need to keep going.”— Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, thoughtcatalog.com
“In the grand scheme of things, love is simple. The person who wants to talk to you will find a way to talk to you. The person who wants to see you, will not decline your invitations.”— Rania Naim, thoughtcatalog.com
“Dear today, I spend all of you pretending I'm okay when I'm not, pretending I'm happy when I'm not, pretending about everything to everyone.”— Nina LaCour, amazon.com
“Don't talk to me. I'm tired and grumpy and I'll probably make fun of you.”— Ann Brashares, amazon.com
“I want to know what your favorite show was when you were a kid and who made you cry at school and what boy band you hung posters of on your wall. Then I want you naked in my bed.”— Abbi Glines, amazon.com
“It's very easy to get a boy to leave the room. It's much harder to get him to leave your thoughts.”— Elizabeth Eulberg, amazon.com
“You are beautiful. Know this. Anyone who tells you otherwise is simply lying. You are beautiful.”— Steve Maraboli, amazon.com
“I don't want to be with a boy whose heart belongs to somebody else. Just once, I want to be somebody else's first choice”— Jenny Han, amazon.com
“She had been an outsider, always the lonely girl, the one who stayed at home watching tv on Saturday nights while her friends went to parties and out on dates.”— R.L. Stine, amazon.com
“I'm usually torn between regretting what I did ten minutes ago and fearing what's gonna happen in ten years, so being in the moment is not my forte.”— Whitney Cummings, amazon.com
“Choose the one who gives a shit about you. Don't choose the one who promises to bring you the stars. Don't run after anyone who gives you promises they can't keep and pain you don't need.”— Abirami P. Kurukkal, instagram.com
“When you hit rock bottom, you will find a lot of people throwing pity from the top but no one will try to throw a rope even if they have one. You have to climb out yourself.”— Vernon Rodrigues, instagram.com
“I'm still in the process of forgiving myself for letting you treat me the way you did.”— SM (sm_soul_speech), instagram.com
“You know more than anyone else how exhausting it is to tend to people that don’t deserve it but, for some reason, you keep doing it anyways.”— Caitlin Conlon, thoughtcatalog.com
“Stop clinging onto people who only hurt you and take you for granted and cause you pain over and over again.”— Sophie Wrenfield, thoughtcatalog.com
“I'm sorry I believe in fairy tales. I’m sorry I expected you to give me what you don’t have. I’m sorry I asked you to be someone you don’t want to be. I’m sorry I wanted us to go somewhere that doesn’t exist.”— Farah Ayaad, thoughtcatalog.com