“I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.”— Elizabeth Barrett Browning, writerswrite.co.za
“I wonder how many people don’t get the one they want, but end up with the one they’re supposed to be with.”— Fannie Flagg, amazon.com
“The relationship of a girl and her favorite novel can be complex indeed.”— Andrea Cremer, amazon.com
“Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable. We cannot know at the outset how the relationship will affect us. Like a chemical mixture, if one of us is changed, both of us will be. Will we grow in self-actualization, or will it destroy us? The one thing we can be certain of is that if we l…”— Rollo May, amazon.com
“The opportunity is not to discover the perfect company for ourselves. The opportunity is to build the perfect company for each other.”— Simon Sinek, amazon.com
“With trust comes a sense of value―real value, not just value equated with money. Value, by definition, is the transference of trust. You can't convince someone you have value, just as you can't convince someone to trust you.”— Simon Sinek, amazon.com
“One thing I learned a long time ago is that even if you think you’re meant to be with someone, that doesn’t necessarily mean you get to be with them.”— Miranda Kenneally, amazon.com
“She looked away. I thought she was looking for another cigarette. Then I saw she was crying. I could feel her crying. Shaking and crying. She wouldn’t look up. I put my arms around her.”— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com
“I wanted someone to love who would stay: stay and be there, always.”— Audrey Niffenegger, amazon.com
“Soon we will be strangers. No, we can never be that. Hurting someone is an act of reluctant intimacy. We will be dangerous acquaintances with a history.”— Hanif Kureishi, amazon.com
“That’s the thing about friendship, it’s a lot rarer than love, because there is nothing in it for any body.”— Owen Wilson, amazon.com
“People like you hold their loved ones above ideals. They’ll do anything to protect them, no matter what it costs.”— Aimee Carter, amazon.com
“Insecurity is the worst sense that lovers feel..Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust.”— Graham Greene, amazon.com
“Your relationship with yourself sets the tone for every other relationship you have.”— Robert Holden, amazon.com
“Yet we can perhaps only ever fall in love without knowing quite who we have fallen in love with. The initial convulsion is necessarily founded on ignorance.”— Alain de Botton, amazon.com