“How amazing it is to find someone who wants to hear about all the things that go on in your head.”— Nina LaCour, amazon.com
“I think perhaps love comes from finding someone you feel utterly comfortable with, someone who makes you comfortable with yourself. It’s like…finding yourself, or maybe it’s like finding the other part of yourself.”— Candice Proctor, amazon.com
“It's weird to feel like you miss someone you're not even sure you know.”— David Foster Wallace, amazon.com
“Meeting your soul mate is like walking into a house you’ve been in before - you will recognize the furniture, the pictures on the wall,the books on the shelves, the contents of drawers: You could find your way around in the dark if you had to.”— Jandy Nelson, amazon.com
“Once you have met a true human being, let him not disappear from the horizon of your heart.”— Rumi, goodreads.com
“The person you’re meant to be with will never have to be chased, begged or given an ultimatum.”— Mandy Hale, goodreads.com
“We’re all lonely for something we don’t know we’re lonely for. How else to explain the curious feeling that goes around feeling like missing somebody we’ve never even met.”— David Foster Wallace, goodreads.com
“I want to be the best version of myself for anyone who is going to someday walk into my life and need someone to love them beyond reason.”— Jennifer Elisabeth, amazon.com
“We don't need to be constantly reasonable in order to have good relationships; all we need to have mastered is the occasional capacity to acknowledge with good grace that we may, in one or two areas, be somewhat insane.”— Alain de Botton, amazon.com
“When two people belong together, there is simply--at long last--a wondrous reciprocal feeling that both parties see the world in precisely the same way.”— Alain de Botton, amazon.com
“Marriage: a hopeful, generous, infinitely kind gamble taken by two people who don't know yet who they are or who the other might be, binding themselves to a future they cannot conceive of and have carefully omitted to investigate.”— Alain de Botton, amazon.com
“We believe we are seeking happiness in love, but we are really after is familiarity.”— Alain de Botton, amazon.com
“There is, in the early period of love where...we can be childish, imaginative, wild, hopeful, cynical, fragile, and multiple; all of this our lover can understand and accept us for.”— Alain de Botton, amazon.com
“Love is dividend of gratitude for our lover's insight into our own confused and troubled psyche.”— Alain de Botton, amazon.com
“Love reaches a pitch at those moments when our beloved turns out to understand, more clearly than others have ever been able to, and perhaps even better than we do ourselves, the chaotic, embarrassing, and shameful parts of us. That someone else gets who we are and both sympathizes with us and forgi…”— Alain de Botton, amazon.com
“Love is also, and equally, about weakness, about being touched by another's fragilities and sorrows, especially when--as happens in the early days--we ourselves are in no danger of being held responsible for them.”— Alain de Botton, amazon.com
“Love means admiration for qualities in the lover that promise to correct our weaknesses and imbalances; love is a search for completion.”— Alain de Botton, amazon.com
“How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: I need this, I need someone to pour myself into.”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com