Truly powerful people don’t explain why they want respect. They simply don’t engage someone who doesn’t give it to them.
—Sherry Argov in Why Men Love Bitches
Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves.
—Gene Fowler
Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others.
—Samuel Johnson
In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.
—Erich Fromm
It isn’t about looks; gorgeous women get dumped every day.
—Sherry Argov in Why Men Love Bitches
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
—William J. H. Boetcker
Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.
—Euripides
Relationships are never static. They have to evolve over time as the individuals in them change.
—Sherryl Woods in Driftwood Cottage
When you are your own best friend, you don’t endlessly seek out relationships, friendships, and validation from the wrong sources because you realize that the only approval and validation you need is your own.
—Mandy Hale in The Single Woman
You deserve someone who loves you with every single beat of his heart, someone who thinks about you constantly, someone who spends every minute of every day just wondering what you’re doing, where you are, who you’re with, and if you’re OK. You need someone who can help you reach your dreams and protect you from your fears. You need someone who will treat you with respect, love every part of you, especially your flaws. You should be with someone who could make you happy, really happy, dancing on air happy.
—Cecelia Ahern in Love, Rosie
Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.
—Samuel Johnson
Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success—yours or his.
—Franklin P. Jones
I think I wanted it too much and you didn’t want it enough.
—Jay Crownover in Rule
Someday we’ll run into each other again, I know it. Maybe I’ll be older and smarter and just plain better.
—Gabrielle Zevin in Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac
Never tell all you know—not even to the person you know best.
—Agatha Christie in The Secret Adversary