“To him, I was just a five minute smoke break. To me, he was an addiction.”— Ashleigh Catibog-Abraham, wnq-writers.com
“She doesn’t want to fall for someone new the second they lock eyes. She doesn’t want to imagine a future when there’s barely even a present. But she can’t help it. It’s the way that she is.”— Holly Riordan, thoughtcatalog.com
“The thought of her flooded every corner of my mind with light and poured brightness into miraculous lofts I hadn’t even known were there, vistas that seemed to exist not at all except in relationship to her.”— Donna Tartt, Theodore Decker, amazon.com
“Falling in love is more than infatuation. It is the need to feel whole, to feel safe, to be healed, to join together with someone, heart and soul.”— Michael R. French, amazon.com
“Rather than some notional idea of perfect complementarity, it is the capacity to tolerate dissimilarity that is the true marker of the 'right' person.”— Alain de Botton, amazon.com
“We speak of 'love' as if it were a single, undifferentiated thing, but it comprises two very different modes: being loved and loving. We should marry when we are ready to do the latter and have become aware of our unnatural--and dangerous--fixation on the former.”— Alain de Botton, amazon.com
“You know, I think that book that I wrote, in a way, was like building something. So that I wouldn't forget the... details of the time that we spent together. You know, like just a reminder that... that once we really did meet! You know, that this was real! That this happened!”— Ethan Hawke, Jesse, amazon.com
“I used to waste my time dreaming of being alive, now I only waste it dreaming of you.”— Fall Out Boy, open.spotify.com
“Living with him is like being told a perpetual story: his mind is the biggest, most imaginative I have ever met. I could live in its growing countries forever.”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com
“Infatuation is not quite the same thing as love; it's more like love's shady second cousin who's always borrowing money and can't hold down a job.”— Elizabeth Gilbert, amazon.com