Time heals. It's slow and it's painful but it works. Talking helps, going out with other people, seeing friends. She'll be like a book you read long ago. If you trust that if it's meant to be then it'll be again, and if it's not you will wake up one day and realize that you hadn't even thought of her once. And then you'll be free.
—Endless Love (2014)
Being with you never felt wrong. It's the one thing I did right. You're the one thing I did right.
—Becca Fitzpatrick in Crescendo
Everybody has a home team: It's the people you call when you get a flat tire or when something terrible happens. It's the people who, near or far, know everything that's wrong with you and love you anyways. These are the ones who tell you their secrets, who get themselves a glass of water without asking when they're at your house. These are the people who cry when you cry. These are your people, your middle-of-the-night, no-matter-what people.
—Shauna Niequist in Bittersweet
I loved her more than she loved me, that was the problem. A basic imbalance. Relationships like that never last, however hard you try.
—Lisa Jewell in Vince and Joy
There comes a point when you just love someone. Not because they're good, or bad, or anything really. You just love them. It doesn't mean you'll be together forever. It doesn't mean you won't hurt each other. It just means you love them.
—Laurell K. Hamilton in Incubus Dreams
Love in its essence is spiritual fire.
—Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.
—Phyllis Diller
Be a bit of a challenge; not because you're playing games but because you realize you're worth the extra effort.
—Mandy Hale in The Single Woman
Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.
—Joseph Brodsky
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
—Friedrich Nietzsche
I needed to hate someone and you're the one I love the most, so it fell on you.
—Gayle Forman in Where She Went
We were already separated, that was official, but there was still a window of hope left open that perhaps someday we could give things another try.
—Elizabeth Gilbert in Love
You're not in love with me, not really, you just love the way I always made you feel. Like you were the center of my world. Because you were. I would have done anything for you.
—Abby McDonald in Getting Over Garrett Delaney
Some relationships just don't work out, no matter how bad both parties might want them to. Sometimes time, distance, and circumstances get in the way. And sometimes we have a purpose for our lives that couldn't be fulfilled inside the bounds of that relationship.
—Mandy Hale in but My Luggage Has
I want to know you. You seem like someone worth knowing. Every day I feel like I'm surrounded by people with hard edges and sour faces but I get the sense that you're different. Too often people seem to think that they have the answers to everything. Their faces are trapped in permascowls and they can't be bothered with anything besides their own narcissism. You aren't like that. You still ask questions. You're still looking for the answers.
—Ryan O'Connell in I Want To Know You