“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
“I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times… In life after life, in age after age, forever.”— Rabindranath Tagore, amazon.com
“i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)i am never without it(anywhere i go you go,my dear;and whatever is done by only me is your doing,my darling)”— E. E Cummings, amazon.com
“It's so nice to wake up in the morning all alone and not have to tell somebody you love them when you don't love them any more.”— Richard Brautigan, amazon.com
“i like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more. i like your body. i like what it does, i like its hows. i like to feel the spine of your body and its bones, and the trembling -firm-smooth ness and which i will again and again and again kiss, i li…”— E. E Cummings, amazon.com
“You haven’t kissed anyone for a while now. To you, everything tastes like blood.”— Warsan Shire, itwillheal.wordpress.com
“Okay, we didn’t work, and all memories to tell you the truth aren’t good. But sometimes there were good times. Love was good. I loved your crooked sleep beside me and never dreamed afraid. There should be stars for great wars like ours.”— Sandra Cisneros, 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
“The desire to be loved is the last illusion: Give it up and you will be free.”— Margaret Atwood, amazon.com
“I don't go into town anymore. I bring out the emergency in people and I don’t know why. When I speak, women fall sick and stars drop like dead birds from the night. My home, instead, is on a ridge where horses bow their heads and bear the elements. Alone, I conduct experiments. I communicate with st…”— Austen Leah Rosenfeld, narrativemagazine.com
“Maybe love is in New York City, already asleep; You are in California, Australia, wide awake. Maybe love is always in the wrong time zone. Maybe love is not ready for you. Maybe you are not ready for love. Maybe love just isn’t the marrying type. Maybe the next time you see love is twenty years afte…”— Sarah Kay, Phil Kaye, youtube.com
“You loved a man who treated you like absinthe, half poison and half god.”— Clementine Von Radics, amazon.com
“Your heart will become a dusty piano in the basement of a church and she will play you when no one is looking. Now you understand why it’s called an organ.”— Rudy Francisco, fuckyeahrudyfrancisco.tumblr.com
“I like imagining your body is Saturn, my body ten thousand rings wrapped around you.”— Andrea Gibson, amazon.com
“I want a tattoo of the first morning we woke up together. I want the memory to hurt.”— Clementine Von Radics, amazon.com