“Love — when it is unmistakably real, pure and true — will endure past distractions and mistakes on your collision course with its real form. There will be no denying it.”— Tiffany Bailey, instagram.com
“Tell me your secrets, all of the creep shit That's how I know it's true”— Ariana Grande, open.spotify.com
“All I can say is I wish my eyelids had asked permission before sacrificing themselves to keep the peace.”— Ibby Caputo, nytimes.com
“A touch from your real love is like heaven takin' the place of somethin' evil.”— Lana Del Rey, open.spotify.com
“It was just like, 'Let's stop playing. We really love each other. I'm scared to lose you, and you scared to lose me.'”— Cardi B, gq.com
“The summer heat is kind at night, and every window in our house is open and welcome to it.”— Schuyler Peck, instagram.com
“She has never heard me whisper into her ear or come up with a witty reply. She has never heard me ask a question or speak my mind, to anyone.”— Jamison Hill, nytimes.com
“The complicated chemistry created by two people who love each other has always interested me, maybe because I struggle so much to understand how it’s possible.”— Alia Wilhelm, rookiemag.com
“I still have no idea why you stayed. Why you tolerated me. But I’m glad you did.”— Lauren Doyle Owens, nytimes.com
“It’s easy to get complacent and imagine that the narrow band your partner allows you to see (or the only one you’re comfortable looking at) is all there is.”— Tim Kreider, nytimes.com
“My wife is actually somebody who helped me be comfortable with who I am and I just thank God so much that she did because it's so freeing to be comfortable with myself.”— Samira Wiley, bustle.com
“Good love is hard to come by. Not because those of us who find it are among the blessed chosen lucky few, but rather because: So few of us understand what “good love” actually is.”— Kris Gage, psiloveyou.xyz
“I don’t want a superhero, a prince charming, a savior. I don’t want anything other than an imperfect soul intertwining his arms, his hands, his heart with me.”— Marisa Donnelly, thoughtcatalog.com
“It's funny how in the end, you always go back to the ones that have been there from the very beginning.”— Paulo Coelho, twitter.com
“For me, love is about the way you treat a person on a daily basis when no one else is around.”— Whitney Cummings, youtube.com
“I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn't a nightmare.”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“Sometimes people walk away from love because it is so beautiful that it terrifies them. Sometimes they leave because the connection shines a bright light on their dark places and they are not ready to work them through. Sometimes they run away because they are not developmentally prepared to merge w…”— Jeff Brown, goodreads.com
“Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that’s ok with them.”— Alain de Botton, twitter.com