“How to read her coldness: She is preoccupied. She is unhappy. She is unhappy with you. You did something and now she’s unhappy, and you need to find out what it is so she will stop being unhappy. You talk to her. You are clear. You think you are clear. You say what you are thinking and you say it af…”— Carmen Maria Machado, amazon.com
“You have this codependency that you think is love, and then you have this addiction to the passion and the frustration with each other.”— Selena Gomez, teenvogue.com
“I’m not one to have hundreds of social media friends. My circle of friends is fairly small. So to have women whom I’d known five or ten years meet my cancer news with silence was heartbreaking.”— Rachel Garlinghouse, scarymommy.com
“Here’s a list of things that WILL NOT make a man act right: Great sex. Buying him things. Being a good woman. Supporting his dreams. Arguing with him.”— Joshua Bingham, twitter.com
“At times Joe and Beck seem cute together (isn't it great how we've been conditioned to believe stalking can be flattering?) — until you remember Joe is actually a violent, obsessive dude who entraps women under the guise of being a woke, sensitive, literary-minded boyfriend.”— Claire Dodson, teenvogue.com
“Honeymoon is over, roses on the floor, screaming out accusing, calling me a whore. Your words are shaking me, giving me whiplash. We're on a trampoline and soon we're gonna crash.”— Jaira Burns, open.spotify.com
“I can't resist the taste of your lips, it’s making me sick right now. And I've had enough of wanting your love if you never give it up.”— Charlotte Lawrence, open.spotify.com
“I fuckin' hate you, but I love you just the same. You tear my heart out in just the perfect way.”— Charlotte Lawrence, open.spotify.com
“She wasn't happy with you because you were never happy.”— Rob Weiss, Cameron 'Cam' Calderon, Victor Rasuk, imdb.com
“It's totally fair not to want to hurt someone you're in a relationship with, but if you're no longer invested in the relationship you might end up doing more harm than good by sticking with it.”— Brittney McNamara, teenvogue.com
“Here's the thing. I'm nice to you, and you're mean to me. There's something wrong about that, but I can't put my finger on what it is.”— Michael Schur, Jason Mendoza, Manny Jacinto, imdb.com
“I like the sad eyes, bad guys, mouth full of white lies, kiss me in the corridor, but quick to tell me goodbye.”— Halsey, open.spotify.com
“Oversharing. What does it say about us that a woman who speaks the truth of her experience should be dismissed for telling more than the world feels comfortable hearing?”— Joyce Maynard, nytimes.com
“Holding on to toxic relationships is what keeps us from growing.”— Lena Dunham, Adam Sackler, Adam Driver, imdb.com
“This guy was never violent, rarely raised his voice. Coming from an abusive past, it was hard for me to recognize what he was doing as abuse because it was all mental.”— Gabbie Hanna, youtube.com
“If you’re in a toxic relationship right now, just know that there is a better life possible for you. You are worthy of the happiness that life has to offer. You are deserving of healthy love and self-love. You are worthy of infinite abundance and success. You will be okay by yourself. In fact, who k…”— Shahida Arabi, thoughtcatalog.com
“How absurd that you minimize female self-respect and self-worth by saying someone should stay in a toxic relationship...I am not a babysitter or a mother and no woman should feel that they need to be.”— Ariana Grande, teenvogue.com