It’s hard being left behind. It’s hard to be the one who stays.

I won't ever leave you, even though you're always leaving me.

—Audrey Niffenegger in The Time Traveler’s Wife

Sometimes when you finally find out, you realize that you were much better off not knowing.

—Audrey Niffenegger in Her Fearful Symmetry

I wanted someone to love who would stay: stay and be there, always.

—Audrey Niffenegger in The Time Traveler’s Wife

To good and true love fear is forever affixed.

—François Rabelais

You can’t be responsible for anyone but you. We all make our own decisions, and pay our own consequences. You can love someone, but you can’t fix them.

—Lyla Payne in By Referral Only

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

—George Jean Nathan

Mom always told me there are two kinds of love in this world: the steady breeze, and the hurricane.

—Melody Grace in Unbroken

That’s love. A part of what makes it so awesome is the level of real, true intimacy, and the risk you take by opening yourself up that way to someone who has the power to gut you.

—Lauren Dane in Inside Out