• "Don’t let people treat you like a cigarette, they only use you when they’re bored and step on you when they’re done. Be like drugs, let them die for you."
• "I crave your legs intertwined with mine, I crave nothing but you, in the most simplest of ways."
• "To be loved, I think, is the thing that gets you up in the morning."

— Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Morning Edition, NPR April 2012

• "Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that’s ok with them."

— Alain de Botton

• "If someday the moon calls you by your name don’t be surprised,

Because every night I tell her about you." — Shahrazad al-Khalij

• "And I’d choose you; in a hundred lifetimes, in a hundred worlds, in any version of reality, I’d find you and I’d choose you."

— The Chaos of Stars

• "I can’t stand it to think my life is going so fast and I’m not really living it."

— Ernest Hemingway

• "Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence."

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

• "I taste her and realize I have been starving."
• "Sometimes you’re 23 and standing in the kitchen of your house making breakfast and brewing coffee and listening to music that for some reason is really getting to your heart. You’re just standing there thinking about going to work and picking up your dry cleaning. And also more exciting things like books you’re reading and trips you plan on taking and relationships that are springing into existence. Or fading from your memory, which is far less exciting. And suddenly you just don’t feel at home in your skin or in your house and you just want home but “Mom’s” probably wouldn’t feel like home anymore either. There used to be the comfort of a number in your phone and ears that listened everyday and arms that were never for anyone else. But just to calm yo...