“Her heart was wild but I didn't want to catch it, I wanted to run with it, to set mine free.”— Atticus, instagram.com
“When a man touches a woman's body, he is not just touching her body. It goes MUCH DEEPER than that for a woman. He is touching parts of her soul-parts as diverse as how she feels about being a grandmother some day, to what is her favorite ice cream, to how much she loves her pet, and to her opinion…”— Jim Anderson, amazon.com
“Don’t fall in love with a woman who reads, a woman who feels intensely, a woman who writes… Don’t fall in love with an educated, magical, delirious, or crazy woman. Don’t fall in love with a woman who thinks, who understands what she knows and also knows how to fly; a woman sure of herself. Don’t fa…”— Martha Rivera-Garrido, gentlemenhood.com
“As for you girls, you must risk everything for Freedom, and give everything for Passion, loving everything that your hearts and your bodies love. The only thing higher for a girl and more sacred for a young woman than her freedom and her passion should be her desire to make her life into poetry.”— Roman Payne, facebook.com
“Find a woman who makes you feel more alive. She won't make life perfect but she'll make it infinitely more interesting. And then love her with all that's in you.”— Gayle Roper, amazon.com
“The last time you touch her will feel remarkably like the first. She will be drunk and smiling and full of love for you when she steps out of her dress. You will forget she is leaving because you can still hold her face in your hands. You will forget she is leaving because her lips are soft and wet…”— Joaquin Fernandez, thoughtcatalog.com
“She apologized with you in her mouth, hot and hungry and holding back tears.”— Joaquin Fernandez, thoughtcatalog.com
“You made love like a romance novel, begging her with your body not to go.”— Joaquin Fernandez, thoughtcatalog.com
“You could hear the wind in the leaves, and on that wind traveled the screams of the kids on the playground in the distance, the little kids figuring out how to be alive, how to navigate a world that was not built for them by navigating a playground that was.”— John Green, Hazel, amazon.com
“The definition of humanness is the opportunity to marvel at the majesty of creation.”— John Green, Hazel, amazon.com
“You're arguing that the fragile, rare thing is beautiful simply because it is fragile and rare. But that's a lie and you know it.”— John Green, Hazel, amazon.com
“[She is] a woman so strong she burns heaven and drenches hell.”— John Green, Miles 'Pudge' Halter, amazon.com
“But there was so much to do: cigarettes to smoke, sex to have, swings to swing on.”— John Green, Alaska Young, amazon.com
“I’ll know that our chapters lived on separate pages for a while but the ink was always pressed together, was always permanent, that in the end we'd come back together.”— Rose Goodman, thoughtcatalog.com
“He'll stare at the house for a long time, not remembering / the aftertaste of ice-cube tray popsicles, / searching for something he can call his. He'll have to drive away, like he always does-- / because your'e gone, and you've been gone, / and anyway, he was wrong about the color of your eyes.”— Kara Searcy, google.com
“There is little to the concept of ‘belonging’ other than being possessed by your own haunting need to be completed. It is not being homeless but being a wanderer not searching for a home that sets you free.”— Julia Laksa, thoughtcatalog.com