“And now we're supposed to go back to our normal lives. That's what people do. They have these amazing experiences with another person, and then they just go home and clean the bathroom or whatever.”— Susane Colasanti, amazon.com
“I used to think that loving somebody meant sacrificing anything for them. I thought it meant writing them a blank cheque. I thought it meant that you would die without each other. But it turns out that death and a broken heart are not the same. These days, I think that love is not so dramatic as all…”— Leila Sales, amazon.com
“I think you know you’ve found someone special when you meet them for the first time, and it feels like you’re just picking up where you left off. You kind of look at them and think ‘Where the hell did you come from? Where the hell have you been?’”— Caitlyn Siehl, alonesomes.tumblr.com
“All at once we were madly, clumsily, shamelessly, agonizingly in love with each other; hopelessly, I should add...”— Vladimir Nabokov, amazon.com
“I sound awful saying it but I think it can be like that. I see a lot of people in unstimulating relationships. And not just boyfriend-girlfriend relationships. They find themselves in stagnant friendships. If people were a little less scared [of ending things] they'd get more out of life… You meet t…”— Laura Marling, theguardian.com
“I know what it’s like. When you lose someone who is your home, you know, your only home in the world. When that happens, you think, oh fuck! I should’ve had a backup home. Another person, a place a thing, something to make me feel safe and I don’t have that… and now I’m lost.”— Matt Drake, Charlie Countryman, Shia LaBeouf, amazon.com
“I don't mess around or play games. I don't believe in them. I just want honesty. I'd rather wake up one morning and say "You know what? I had a really terrible dream that you were fucking somebody else. Can you just give me extra love today?" instead of getting in a fight about some stupid shit and…”— John Mayer, ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com
“The best portion of your life will be the small, nameless moments you spend smiling with someone who matters to you.”— Ritu Ghatourey, goodreads.com
“I realized that I was holding on to something that didn't exist anymore. That the person I missed didn't exist anymore. People change.”— Sarah Ockler, amazon.com
“They want me. I want you. And you want someone else. But none of us wants to turn around.”— Iain Thomas, iwrotethisforyou.me
“don't settle for him because he thinks you're beautiful and you think no one else will find you beautiful...”— Warsan Shire, kalamu.com
“Whatever you love passionately always destroys you in the end. But how can I explain what has happened to me? How can I make anyone even understand that I can write about it? I don’t know, I don’t know any more; all I know is that it is so.”— Guy de Maupassant, amazon.com
“Someone has to leave first. This is a very old story. There is no other version of this story.”— Richard Siken, amazon.com
“'Well, that's the thing,' she said, ‘your first love isn’t the first person you give your heart to— it’s the first one who breaks it.'”— Lang Leav, amazon.com
“What was it like to love him? Asked Gratitude. It was like being exhumed, I answered, and brought to life in a flash of brilliance. What was it like to be loved in return? Asked Joy. It was like being seen after a perpetual darkness, I replied. To be heard after a lifetime of silence. What was it li…”— Lang Leav, amazon.com
“It was a question I had worn on my lips for days—like a loose thread on my favorite sweater I couldn't resist pulling—despite knowing it could all unravel around me. "Do you love me?" I ask. In your hesitation I found my answer.”— Lang Leav, amazon.com
“When I feel myself falling out of love with you, I turn the record of your laughter over, reposition the needle. I dust the dirty living room of your affection.”— Sierra Demulder, sierrademulder.tumblr.com