“I think I fell in love with her, a little bit. Isn't that dumb? But it was like I knew her. Like she was my oldest, dearest friend. The kind of person you can tell anything to, no matter how bad, and they'll still love you, because they know you. I wanted to go with her. I wanted her to notice me. A…”— Neil Gaimon, amazon.com
“In the dark beside me, she smelled of sweat and sunshine and vanilla.”— John Green, Alaska Young, amazon.com
“The reason relationships are falling apart in modern times, is because we now have choice. And we’re choosing to be scared. We’re choosing to run from our own vulnerability. We’re choosing to blame others instead of seeing the truth – the opportunity to look inside and grow.”— Kiara O'Leary, thoughtcatalog.com
“The problem is not in the girl who needed too much from him or the guy who exuded a fake arrogance to hide his vulnerability. The problem is that these people are mirroring back to us our own issues, and we keep switching people, but WE are the one common denominator. Their neediness, their arroganc…”— Kiara O'Leary, thoughtcatalog.com
“We’re too busy staring at our smart phones and iPads that we don’t even know who we really are. We are over-stimulated, externally-focused and too scared to look inside and find out what lights us up inside, what our fears are, and who we are when the world feels like it’s closing in from the outsid…”— Kiara O'Leary, thoughtcatalog.com
“But because we have grown up in an age where everything is at our fingertips, when we reach out and it’s not easy and it scares us a little – we pull our hands back in and keep moving on. Looking for the next easy thrill in a new connection, not putting in the time to really see and love deeply.”— Kiara O'Leary, thoughtcatalog.com
“We have become a society where some people are settling for being treated in a way that is less than they deserve because they’re scared of being alone, and others are not truly letting anyone in or giving them a chance because they’re scared of what those people will find out about them.”— Kiara O'Leary, thoughtcatalog.com
“Find someone who will amplify you. You were born to be loud. You are a blown-ear drum kind of loud and you own it. Find someone who makes you louder.”— Tatum Ryan, thoughtcatalog.com
“Find someone who will dance. I don’t say this lightly. Find someone who will grab your hand and spin you out on the dance floor even though neither of you can dance and everyone is watching. Find someone who will turn a car ride into a disco. Find someone who will have fun with you with no fear of b…”— Tatum Ryan, thoughtcatalog.com
“But she loved him, too, with a ferocity that eventually forced her to leave him. They fought each other with the kind of graceful anger that only love can create. Still, their love was passionate, unpredictable, and selfish.’”— Sherman Alexie, amazon.com