“Things were happening around us, but nothing was happening between us.”— Jonathan Safran Foer, amazon.com
“Good conversation turns me on. A connection between two people, a mental one first.”— Brian Molko, thesuitup.tumblr.com
“Love is not selective, just as the light of the sun is not selective. It does not make one person special. It is not exclusive. Exclusivity is not the love of God but the ‘love’ of ego. However, the intensity with which true love is felt can vary. There may be one person who reflects your love back…”— Eckhart Tolle, amazon.com
“Everything carries me to you, as if everything that exists, aromas, lights, metals, where little boats that sail towards those isles of yours that wait for me.”— Pablo Neruda, allpoetry.com
“With one burning hand she held his and with the other she kept pushing him away.”— Leo Tolstoy, amazon.com
“When two people fall in love and suspect they are made for each other, the thing is to have the courage to break it off, for by continuing they have everything to lose and nothing to gain.”— Søren Kierkegaard, amazon.com
“Oh, how people love to disappear from your life. Especially when you already got attached to them.”— Anton Chekhov, the-raven-kid.tumblr.com
“We want someone that we can be at our weakest with, and not feel so. That our vulnerability isn’t taken advantage of, but taken care of.”— Dae D. Lee, wnq-writers.com
“Intimacy is really the ability to fuse your identity with someone else’s without the fear that you’re going to lose something yourself.”— Erik Erikson, fyp-psychology.com
“...we know so little about one another. We embrace a shadow and love a dream.”— Hjalmar Söderberg, amazon.com
“The world is not a pleasant place to be without someone to hold and be held by.”— Nikki Giovanni, amazon.com
“You don’t let go of a bad relationship because you stop caring about them. You let go because you start caring about yourself.”— Charles J. Orlando, twitter.com
“I get way too sensitive when I get attached to someone. I can detect the slightest change in the tone of their voice, and suddenly I’m spending all day trying to figure out what I did wrong.”— Brandon Stanton, facebook.com
“Because isn’t that the point of every relationship: to be known by someone else, to be understood? He gets me. She gets me. Isn’t that the simple magic phrase?”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.com