“I’ve always felt that two people who shared as much as we did and shared such important years should have never drifted apart.”— Rainbow Rowell, amazon.com
“Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that’s ok with them.”— Alain de Botton, amazon.com
“I love you. I worry about you. I wonder whether I tell you enough how I love you and want you and need you and how I am diminished … when you are not with me and how I am multiplied when you are here.”— Pat Frank, amazon.com
“Someday, we’ll run into each other again, I know it. Maybe I’ll be older and smarter and just plain better. If that happens, that’s when I’ll deserve you. But now, at this moment, you can’t hook your boat to mine, because I’m liable to sink us both.”— Gabrielle Zevin, amazon.com
“The Venn diagram of boys who don't like smart girls and boys you don't want to date is a circle.”— John Green, youtube.com
“I learned that social media gives rise to fake relationships. I felt that I shed a lot of superficial relationships when I quit.”— Justin Deol, youtube.com
“When a boy says, 'I love you', he means, 'I am getting ready to be inconsistent with you now.'”— Edwin Bodney, youtube.com
“Discipline never works long term. Never. What works is when you become addicted to something positively new. You trade one addiction for another. You shift from having to do something, to wanting to do something.”— Tony Robbins, youtube.com
“This is the best time to find yourself, re-evaluate your life, decide what you want in a relationship, and be you.”— Liane White, thoughtcatalog.com
“We always see our worst selves. Our most vulnerable selves. We need someone else to get close enough to tell us we’re wrong. Someone we trust.”— David Levithan, amazon.com
“Don't fall in love with me, because I'm strong and independent and at the same time crumbly and soft.”— Jezi Kirsten, thoughtcatalog.com
“I don't see anything wrong with telling someone that you are selfish with their love and that you can't stand sharing them with anyone else.”— Vic Fuentes, puregrainaudio.com
“If he likes you, he will reply as fast as he can even if he’s busy.”— E.J. Cenita, baekebyan.tumblr.com
“People always fall in love with the most perfect aspects of each other’s personalities. Who wouldn’t? Anybody can love the most wonderful parts of another person. But that’s not the clever trick. The really clever trick is this: Can you accept the flaws? Can you look at your partner’s faults honestl…”— Elizabeth Gilbert, goodreads.com
“Women were excited after sex, wired because in their minds the relationship was on beginning.”— Eric Jerome Dickey, amazon.com
“You never asked me to wait for you -- and I don't even know if you want me to -- heck, I don't even know if I want to . . . but something is telling me that when you come back I'm going to be exactly what you want, and you will realize I have been here all this time, and you will wonder why you didn…”— Felicity, holliesquotes.com
“One day you’re going to find yourself in an ‘almost relationship’ that will seamlessly flow into an actual relationship. It may just take a little longer than you hoped for.”— Elizabeth Thompson, thoughtcatalog.com
“I don’t want a relationship over the phone. I don’t want to feel like I’m dating you, but I’m single. Like I’m close to you, but don’t know you at all. I want something real. I’m no longer willing to settle for a half-ass relationship, one that has potential but never finds a way to reach it. I dese…”— Holly Riordan, thoughtcatalog.com
“Don't think that a friends with benefits situation is a good way to start a regular relationship.”— College Times, collegetimes.com