“The children of the nuclear age, I think, were weakened in their capacity to love. Hard to love, when you're bracing yourself for impact. Hard to love, when the loved one, and the lover, might at any instant become blood and flames, along with everybody else.”— Martin Amis, amazon.com
“I have to stop blaming myself. I have to stop believing that I'm the hard one to love.”— V (writersuniverse), instagram.com
“I guess you heard he's gone to LA. He says that behind my eyes I'm hiding, and he tells me I pushed him away. That my heart's been hard to find.”— Tori Amos, open.spotify.com
“They know who they are, which means they also know – specifically – what they do and do not want in a partner, what works and what doesn’t. While this is fantastic in terms of being able to choose wisely, it ultimately diminishes their pool of prospects pretty significantly.”— Brianna Wiest, thoughtcatalog.com
“I understand women. There’s no man alive who can honestly say those words and mean them. It just isn’t possible, so there’s no use trying. But that doesn’t mean you can’t love them anyway. And it doesn’t mean that you should ever stop doing your best to let them know how important they are to you.”— Nicholas Sparks, Noah Calhoun, amazon.com
“I think she was afraid to love sometimes. I think it scared her. She was the type to like things that were concrete, like the ocean. Something you could point to and know what it was. I think that's why she always struggled with God. And I think that's why she also struggled with love. She couldn't…”— Carrie Ryan, amazon.com