“When my absence doesn't alter your life, the my presence has no meaning in it.”— Unknown, theodysseyonline.com
“Relationships are all about trust and equality. If one person shares, then the other person should share, too.”— Sophie Kinsella, amazon.com
“Don't get starry-eyed about somebody you can't have, especially if it blinds you to somebody who's really important.”— Rick Riordan, amazon.com
“Real love doesn’t let people disappear; it doesn’t let the unfortunate timing of the universe stop two people from ending up together. Because people always find their way in the end, people who are meant for each other, will ride through storms and packed out tubes and delayed flights and every sin…”— Rose Goodman, thoughtcatalog.com
“Because love doesn’t wait for time. Because clocks don’t reset. Because an hour lost is one you never get back. Because you should not have to see someone’s face in a photograph and tell yourself and your friends that they were the ‘one who got away’.”— Rose Goodman, thoughtcatalog.com
“The truth is, love doesn’t worry so much about time. Love doesn’t stop being love because things are complicated. Feelings don’t stop burning inside you like fireworks just because you both have other priorities, or your lives are a little messy. That intense need to be beside each other doesn’t jus…”— Rose Goodman, thoughtcatalog.com
“I don't like to feel so crazy about someone. I don't like to feel like my happiness is so tied up in another person.”— Gabrielle Zevin, amazon.com
“I wish I knew how to love someone without killing myself. How to mend hearts without breaking my own. How to Kiss and not create bruises.”— Michelle K., michellekpoems.tumblr.com
“She said the reason that love is so painful is that it always amounts to two people wanting more than two people can give.”— Edna O'Brien, amazon.com
“We have this idea that love is supposed to last forever. But love isn't like that. It's a free-flowing energy that comes and goes when it pleases. Sometimes it stays for life; other times it stays for a second, a day, a month, or a year. So don't fear love when it comes simply because it makes you v…”— Neil Strauss, amazon.com
“You know when sometimes you meet someone so beautiful — and then you actually talk to them and five minutes later they're as dull as a brick; but then there's other people. And you meet them and you think, "Not bad, they're okay," and when you get to know them...their face just, sort of, becomes the…”— Tom MacRae, Amy Pond, Karen Gillan, amazon.com
“I wonder why we always deny love. I remember in middle school, if you were accused of the crime of loving, you screamed denials constantly and stopped ever even looking at the boy you were accused of liking. The boys could destroy each other by yodeling, "An-drew lo-oves Jen-nie," and both Andrew an…”— Caroline B. Cooney, amazon.com
“...our job is to love people. When it hurts. When it's awkward. When it's uncool and embarrassing. Our job is to stand together, to carry the burdens of one another and to meet each other in our questions.”— Jamie Tworkowski, twloha.com
“The only obsession everyone wants: 'love.' People think that in falling in love they make themselves whole? The Platonic union of souls? I think otherwise. I think you're whole before you begin. And the love fractures you. You're whole, and then you're cracked open.”— Philip Roth, amazon.com
“I want to say yes, but I don't want to be with a boy whose heart belongs to somebody else. Just once, I want to be somebody else's first choice.”— Jenny Han, amazon.com
“I never expected her. Sometimes people sneak up on you and suddenly you don't know you ever lived without them.”— Elle Kennedy, amazon.com
“Once someone has let you go emotionally, it's over, no matter how tightly or desperately you commit to hang on. Better to release yourself from the relationship with your dignity intact, than fight a losing battle and risk lasting damage to your heart.”— Beau Taplin, afadthatlastsforever.tumblr.com