“You must not reduce yourself to a puddle just because the person you like is afraid to swim and you are a fierce sea to them; because there will be someone who was born with love of the waves within their blood, and they will look at you with fear and respect.”— T.B. LaBerge, tblaberge.tumblr.com
“The female doesn't want a rich man or a handsome man or even a poet, she wants a man who understands her eyes if she gets sad, and points to his chest and say : "Here is your home country.”— Nizar Qabbani, middleeasternpoetry.tumblr.com
“I did not beg him to stay because I was begging God that he would not leave.”— Warsan Shire, warsanshirepoetryreblogs.tumblr.com
“Sometimes we just have to cut off the dead branches in our life. Sometimes that's the only way we can keep the tree alive. It's hard and it hurts, but it's what's best.”— Nicole Williams, amazon.com
“And most of all, I want to do nothing with you. I want to spend a Sunday at home, me in my corner, you in yours, reading or working or writing, silently in our spaces. I want to be so together that we don’t have to say anything at all, that we can just watch it rain and drink our tea and occasionall…”— Chelsea Fagan, thoughtcatalog.com
“He used to love me, and now he's just a stranger who happens to know all my secrets.”— Clementine Von Radics, amazon.com
“Loving someone who hates themselves is a special kind of violence. A fight inside the bones. A war within the blood.”— Yrsa Daley Ward, amazon.com
“The worst form of incompatibility is when both of you are giving but neither of you are receiving.”— Sue Zhao, blossomfully.tumblr.com
“No, I do not want to be loved unconditionally. I want to be shown when I am treating you less than you deserve. I want you to leave if I ever start making you promises I do not see through. Love me for my flaws, yes, but don’t you dare ever allow them to hurt you.”— Beau Taplin, afadthatlastsforever.tumblr.com
“Once, I believed in you like a poem, turned your heart into a metaphor for my heart, turned our mouths into honey and caramel lozenges. But metaphors come and metaphors go, and not even seasons have the courtesy to stay till dawn.”— Shinji Moon, amazon.com
“...it's always harder to be the one who's left behind than the one who leaves.”— Tamara Ireland Stone, amazon.com
“That's a big burden for someone...To feel like if you leave a person, their whole life is going to crumble to dust.”— Mia Sheridan, amazon.com
“i need someone who knows struggle as well as I do someone willing to hold my feet in their lap on days it is too difficult to stand the type of person who gives exactly what I need before I even know I need it the type of lover who hears me even when I do not speak...”— Rupi Kaur, amazon.com
“The moment I start to feel under appreciated I distance myself. I don't care to be anything to anyone who doesn't crave me. I don't want to be anywhere that I'm not missed every time my presence is missing...”— Reyna Biddy, reynabiddy.tumblr.com
“I know exactly how that is. To love somebody who doesn’t deserve it. Because they are all you have. Because any attention is better than no attention.”— Augusten Burroughs, amazon.com