“I’m never gonna wait that extra twenty minutes to text you back, and I’m never gonna play hard to get when I know your life has been hard enough already. When we all know everyone’s life has been hard enough already it’s hard to watch the game we make of love, like everyone’s playing checkers with t…”— Andrea Gibson, andrewgibby.tumblr.com
“'Sometimes I don't get you,' I said. She didn't even glance at me. She just smiled toward the television and said, 'You never get me. That's the whole point.'”— John Green, amazon.com
“Your relationship should be a safe haven not a battlefield. The world is hard enough already.”— Unknown, positiveoutlooksblog.com
“But what happens when you don't find that right person? Do you just spend the rest of your life in a relationship where the conversation isn't great, everything isn't perfect, but it is nice and sweet?”— Miranda Kenneally, amazon.com
“You don't let go of a bad relationship because you stop caring about them. You let go because you start caring about yourself.”— Charles Orlando, twitter.com
“No relationship is perfect so just find the right one to go through hell and heaven with.”— Unknown, twitter.com
“...those are the two things you want to do most when you love somebody: to save them (sometimes from themselves) and to be near them always.”— Francois Lelord, amazon.com
“People put so much effort into starting a relationship and so little effort into ending one.”— Marina Abramovic, newyorker.com
“Tell him yes. Even if you are dying of fear, even if you are sorry later, because whatever you do, you will be sorry all the rest of your life if you say no.”— Gabriel García Márquez, amazon.com
“'How do you know when it's over?' 'Maybe when you feel more in love with your memories than with the person standing in front of you.'”— Gunnar Ardelius, amazon.com
“and then there are some who believe that old relationships can be revived and made new again. but please if you feel that way don’t phone don’t write don’t arrive”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“...Difficult relationships come into our lives for a reason. No one would choose them, certainly. But if we let them, they can teach us how to be flexible with others and more forgiving.”— Joan Bauer, goodreads.com
“Often, when we have a crush, when we lust for a person, we see only a small percentage of who they really are. The rest we make up for ourselves. Rather than listen, or learn, we smother them in who we imagine them to be, what we desire for ourselves, we create little fantasies of people and let the…”— Beau Taplin, afadthatlastsforever.tumblr.com
“It takes a special person to see darkness inside of someone and not condemn them.”— Shannon Messenger, amazon.com
“They never discussed it, but both came to understand it as a promise: he would always make sure there was a place for her. She would always be able to say, Someone is coming. I am not alone.”— Celeste Ng, amazon.com
“Now listen here, I'm going to give you all a piece of advice because it's too late for this guy. Here's what I recommend to you. If you have someone that you think is the one...take that person and travel around the world. Buy a plane ticket for the two of you to travel all around the world and go t…”— Bill Murray, parade.com
“But just because you're strong and resilient doesn't mean you never need someone to be there for you, to take care of you.”— Tammara Webber, amazon.com
“Each lover has a theory of his own About the difference between the ache Of being with his love, & being alone:”— W. H. Auden, web.mit.edu