"The Velveteen Rabbit was about how little kids get one toy that they love more than all the others & even when its fur has been rubbed off & it’s gone saggy with bits missing - the little child still thinks it’s the most beautiful toy in the world & can’t bear to be parted from it. That’s how it works when people really love each other." - Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding

"God would never create your soul mate & never allow you to meet him." - Steve Harvey

“We all have the potential to fall in love a thousand times in our lifetime. It’s easy. They all count. But there are certain people you love who do something else; they define how you classify what love is supposed to feel like. These are the most important people in your life & you’ll meet maybe four or five of these people over the span of 80 years. But there’s still one more tier to all this; there is always one person you love who becomes that definition. It usually happens retrospectively, but it always happens eventually. This is the person who unknowingly sets the template for what you will always love about other people, even if some of those lovable qualities are self-destructive & unreasonable. You will remember having conversations with this person that never actually happened. The person is real & the feelings are real - but you create the context & context is everything. The person who defines your understanding of love is not inherently different than anyone else & they’re often just the person you happen to meet the first time you really, really want to love someone. But that person still wins. They win & you lose. Because for the rest of your life, they will control how you feel about everyone else.” - Chuck Klosterman

"I really do have love to give; I just don't know where to put it."

"A soul-mate is someone who has locks that fit our keys, and keys that fit our locks. When we feel safe enough to open the locks, our truest selves step out and we can be completely and honestly who we are; we can be loved for who we are and not who we’re pretending to be. Each unveils the best part of the other. No matter what else goes wrong around us, with that one person we’re safe in our own paradise. Our soul mate is someone who shares our deepest longing, our sense of direction. When we’re two balloons, and together our direction is up, chances are we’ve found the right person. Our soul mate is the one who makes life come to life." - Richard Bach