“You are so good. So good, you’re always feeling so much. And sometimes it feels like you’re gonna bust wide open from all the feeling, don’t it? People like you are the best in the world, but you sure do suffer for it.”— Silas House, books.google.com.ph
“so here it is. i loved him, yes. but loving him made me kind of hate myself. and that wasn’t good.”— Warsan Shire, kushandwizdom.tumblr.com
“People were created to be loved. Things were created to be used. The reason why the world is in chaos is because things are being loved and people are being used.”— Emmanuel Torres, amazon.com
“They won’t understand until you leave. The minute you walk away you’ll become ‘the best they’ve ever had.’ It’s crazy how loss triggers love.”— Alex Elle, noeeeee.tumblr.com
“You’re seeking something, but at the same time, you are running away for all you’re worth.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love.”— Erich Fromm, amazon.com
“She scares the hell out of me and calms my soul at the same time. Maybe that’s what love is—a total contradiction that somehow balances out.”— Tammara Webber, amazon.com
“The flowers were so beautiful, so delicate and unthreatening, but they choked everything around them.”— Scott Westerfeld, amazon.com
“Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.”— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, amazon.com
“I will admit there’s a certain degree of giving a f**k that goes into not giving a f**k. By saying you don’t care if the world falls apart, in some small way you’re saying you want it to stay together, on your terms.”— John Green and David Levithan, amazon.com
“Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.”— Andre Dubus, facebook.com
“I don’t know how to express that being with someone so dangerous was the last time I felt safe.”— Janet Fitch, amazon.com
“Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying you’re friends is easy. Being friends is not.”— David Levithan, Rachel Cohn, amazon.com
“What is bad for the heart is good for the art. The terrible irony of our lives as artists.”— Jandy Nelson, amazon.com
“Let's escape the past. The past didn't work. All we have is the future, and I'm the one who wrote 'no future for you!' Don't let the irony be lost.”— John Lydon, axs.com
“The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side.”— Scott Westerfeld, amazon.com