- michael cunningham, "And maybe — maybe — love will arrive, and remain. That could happen. There’s no obvious reason for love’s skittishness (though there is as well no obvious reason for the behaviour of neutrons). It’s all about patience. Isn’t it? Patience, and the refusal to abandon hope."
- james blunt, "Everybody wants a flame, but they don’t want to get burnt."
- e.j. cenita, "You don’t have to surround yourself with people. Sometimes, being alone is okay."
- sophia dembling, "One of the risks of being quiet is that the other people can fill your silence with their own interpretation: You’re bored. You’re depressed. You’re shy. You’re stuck up. You’re judgmental. When others can’t read us, they write their own story—not always one we choose or that’s true to who we are."
- twelfth doctor, "What, in the end, are any of us looking for? We’re looking for someone who’s looking for us."
- sara zarr, "There are certain people who come into your life, and leave a mark… Their place in your heart is tender; a bruise of longing, a pulse of unfinished business. Just hearing their names pushes and pulls at you in a hundred ways, and when you try to define those hundred ways, describe them even to yourself, words are useless."
- joseph mitchell, "She was very private. I don’t think anyone will ever be able to totally capture her—she seemed so evanescent."
- benjamin alire saenz, "I’m fighting myself. I know I am. One minute I want to remember. The next minute I want to live in the land of forgetting. One minute I want to feel. The next minute I never want to feel ever again."
- mark lawrence, "Memories are dangerous things. You turn them over and over, until you know every touch and corner, but still you’ll find an edge to cut you."
- decodingmyself, "I was never in love with you; just the idea of you."
- murakami haruki, "Have you ever had that feeling— that you’d like to go to a whole different place and become a whole different self?"
- beau taplin, "The hours between 12am and 6am have a funny habit of making you feel like you’re either on top of the world, or under it."
- dream-jackson, "I am a different person to different people. Annoying to one. Talented to another. Quiet to a few. Unknown to a lot. But who am I, to me?"
- lora mathis, "I am figuring out which parts of my personality are mine, and which ones I created to please you."
- erich fromm, "One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."
- johnathan safran foer, "This is love…isn’t it? When you notice someone’s absence and hate that absence more than anything? More, even, than you love their presence?"
- robert pinsky, "The heart grows brutal from feeding on fantasies."
- unknown, "You never know how long your words will stay in someone’s mind even after you’ve forgotten you spoke to them."
- gillian anderson, "(On masturbation) It’s about pleasing yourself when the hell you want to. You know, like even when you have a boyfriend, sometimes you’re in the mood and they’re not around."
- haruki murakami, "Don’t you think it would be wonderful to get rid of everything and everybody and just go some place where you don’t know a soul?"
- don miguel ruiz, "Don’t take anything personally. Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions of others, you won’t be the victim of needless suffering."
- unknown, "I always think of you before I fall asleep. The words you said, the way you looked. The things we laughed about, the silent moments we shared. And when I dream, I’ll dream of you. Because it’s about you, it’s always about you."
- jamie tworkowski, "Our job is to love people. When it hurts. When it’s awkward. When it’s uncool and embarrassing. Our job is to stand together, to carry the burdens of one another and to meet each other in our questions."
- oscar wilde, "I think it’s very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person."
- stephen king, "I hated high school. I don’t trust anybody who looks back on the years from 14 to 18 with any enjoyment. If you liked being a teenager, there’s something wrong with you."
- shannon l. alder, "If you have to convince someone to stay with you, then they have already left."
- vargus, "If you want to kill yourself, kill what you don’t like. I had an old self that I killed. You can kill yourself too, but that doesn’t mean you got to stop living."
- tara webster, "I always thought kissing was the boundary line but is it murkier than that? Can you cheat in a look, a thought, a moment of connection? Whatever the definition, one thing is pretty clear. If it feels like you’re cheating, you probably are."
- robin williams, "I used to think the worst thing in life was to end up all alone. It’s not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel all alone."
- unknown, "There are two people you’ll meet in your life. One will run a finger down the index of who you are and jump straight to the parts of you that pique their interest. The other will take his or her time reading through every one of your chapters and maybe fold corners of you that inspired them most. You will meet these two people; it is a given. It is the third that you’ll never see coming. That one person who not only finishes your sentences, but keeps the book."
- sigmund freud, "We choose not randomly each other. We meet only those who already exists in our subconscious."
- henry miller, "I see myself forever and ever as the ridiculous person, the lonely soul, the wanderer, the restless frustrated artist, the person in love with love, always in search of the absolute, always seeking the unattainable."
- choi seunghyun, "I am lonely. I’ve been like that since I was young. But I think I am a person that needs to be lonely."
- ohno satoshi, "Maybe the things you discover on your own are more valuable than the things that have been hammered into your head at school."
- gayle foreman, "I find the need to remind myself of the temporariness of a day, to reassure myself that I got through yesterday, I’ll get through today."
- nicola yoon, "There’s a Japanese phrase that I like: koi no yokan. It doesn’t mean love at first sight. It’s closer to love at second sight. It’s the feeling when you meet someone that you’re going to fall in love with them. Maybe you don’t love them right away, but it’s inevitable that you will."
- kaui hart hemmings, "That’s how you know you love someone, I guess, when you can’t experience anything without wishing the other person were there to see it, too."
- kahlil gibran, "If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don’t, they never were."
- stefan karl stefansson, "It’s not until they tell you you’re going to die soon that you realize how short life is. Time is the most valuable thing in life because it never comes back. And whether you spend it in the arms of a loved one or alone in a prison-cell, life is what you make of it. Dream big."
- salvador plascencia, "I don’t know what they are called, the spaces between seconds– but I think of you always in those intervals."
- robert brault, "Eventually soulmates meet, for they have the same hiding place"
- dita von teese, "You can be the ripest, juiciest peach in the world, and there’s still going to be somebody who hates peaches."
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