“Because I left him, I feel even more empowered than ever. Because I left him, I remember what it’s like to be the girl who is always smiling.”— AJ Ecton, thoughtcatalog.com
“Trust actions more than empty words and see how someone’s actions communicate who they are, not who they say they are.”— Shahida Arabi, thoughtcatalog.com
“You have family and friends who love you. You have a world out there just waiting for you to conquer it. You have a life that will be anything you make it.”— Malorie Blackman, amazon.com
“We live in a world where there is such a clear definition of what a girl should be that it takes almost no effort at all to completely hate ourselves.”— Jennifer Elisabeth, amazon.com
“Love's about finding the one person who makes your heart complete. Who makes you a better person than you ever dreamed you could be.”— Julia Quinn, amazon.com
“If loneliness was a choice, what was the other option? To settle for second-best and try to be happy with that? And was that fair to the person you settled for?”— Lisa Kleypas, amazon.com
“Loving isn't about selecting only the good parts. It's about taking the whole and loving the lot.”— Santa Montefiore, amazon.com
“Today might not be so good. But tomorrow, you got another chance to get it right.”— David Baldacci, amazon.com
“Life would be a lot easier if conversations were rewindable and erasable, like videos.”— Sophie Kinsella, amazon.com
“Love isn’t a quilt. Love isn’t patient, love isn’t kind. Love is a game, a chase, a thrill. Love is wild and war-like, and every man and woman must fight for themselves.”— Lauren Blakely, amazon.com
“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“If we have loved much, we must have given much also, and when everything's over, we feel as though we have lost everything.”— Jocelyn Soriano, amazon.com
“Sometimes you tell someone to never speak to you again and then the phone rings and you hope it´s them.”— John Mayer, twitter.com
“The loneliest moment in someone's life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“Fear is for eternity. The fear of falling in love, the fear of being in love, and the fear of falling out of love.”— Shashank K, instagram.com
“People with anxiety always feel alone in their own head, and also hate to feel like a burden to others.”— Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, thoughtcatalog.com
“Wait for the guy who makes you look forward to not only tomorrow, but to the rest of your life.”— Becca Martin, thoughtcatalog.com
“You’ve gone through heartbreak, and whether you are fully over it now or are still healing, you’ve learned that you are so much stronger than you ever could have guessed.”— Kim Quindlen, thoughtcatalog.com