People change and forget to tell each other.
—Lillian Hellman
He doesn't love me. He might still love me as I was at fifteen, when I didn't know any better. When I trusted everyone. I'm not that person anymore.
—Sarah Dessen in That Summer
Why does he have to be my boyfriend? Are you inferior if you don't have a boyfriend? Why does everybody have to be in love with somebody?
—Ann Brashares in Girls In Pants
I envy people that know love. That have someone who takes them as they are.
—Jess C. Scott in The Devilin Fey
I thought it must be fate that I kept bumping into him, some strange sign that he was meant to come back into my life and fix or change something, a voice from the past arriving in the present with the answers to everything.
—Sarah Dessen in That Summer
A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others.
—Frank Morgan
For too long, I've been telling myself that I could spend all this time with you and flirt with you and not have it mean anything. It does mean something. You mean something to me.
—Claudia Gray in Stargazer
There's so much more to life than finding someone who will want you, or being sad over someone who doesn't. There's a lot of wonderful time to be spent discovering yourself without hoping someone will fall in love with you along the way, and it doesn't need to be painful or empty. You need to fill yourself up with love. Not anyone else. Become a whole being on your own. Go on adventures, fall asleep in the woods with friends, wander around the city at night, sit in a coffee shop on your own, write on bathroom stalls, leave notes in library books, dress up for yourself, give to others, smile a lot. Do all things with love, but don't romanticize life like you can't survive without it. Live for yourself and be happy on your own. It isn't any less beautiful.
—Emery Allen
People fall in love all the time. And it's not always with the right people. And it's not always reciprocated.
—Sarah Addison Allen in The Peach Keeper
It was too hard to fall in love with someone, learn all of their quirks and passions, assume you'd spend the rest of your life with them, and then suddenly have them snatched away forever.
—Caren Lissner in Starting from Square Two
Even when we were standing in church and I was getting ready to take my vow I can remember wishing that you were standing there instead of him.
—Nicholas Sparks in The Best of Me
During his stint as host of a show called You Bet Your Life, Groucho Marx interviewed many participants. On one occasion he interviewed a Mrs. Story, who had given birth to twenty-two children. "I love my husband," Mrs. Story said enthusiastically. "I like my cigar, too," said Groucho, "but I take it out once in a while.
—Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes
In our society, we've become myopic and obsessive about one particular kind of love: dyadic love, which takes the form of romance, sex, marriage. As a result we end up asking all the wrong questions. Books about relationships talk about how to "get" the love you need, how to "keep" love, and so on. But the right question to ask is "How do I become a more loving human being?
—Sam Keen
My mother buried three husbands, and two of them were just napping.
—Rita Rudner
Date someone who'll wait to make sure you get inside before driving away.
—Morgan Matson in Since You've Been Gone