• one day, whether you are 14, 28 or 65, you will stumble upon someone who will start a fire in you that cannot die. however, the saddest, most awful truth you will ever come to find–is they are not always with whom we spend our lives.
• it is a frightening thought, that in one fraction of a moment you can fall in the kind of love that takes a lifetime to get over.
• kiss me until i forget how terrified i am of everything wrong with my life.
• often, when we have a crush, when we lust for a person, we see only a small percentage of who they really are. the rest we make up for ourselves. rather than listen, or learn, we smother them in who we imagine them to be, what we desire for ourselves, we create little fantasies of people and let them grow in our hearts. and this is where the relationship fails. in time, the fiction we scribble onto a person falls away, the lies we tell ourselves unravel and soon the person standing in front of you is almost unrecognisable, you are now complete strangers in your own love. and what a terrible shame it is. my advice: pay attention to the small details of people, you will learn that the universe is far more spectacular an author than we could ever hope to be.
• no, i do not want to be loved unconditionally. i want to be shown when i am treating you less than you deserve. i want you to leave if i ever start making you promises i do not see through. love me for my flaws, yes, but don’t you dare ever allow them to hurt you.
• i want to fall to sleep with you, and i could care less whether it is in layers upon layers of clothing or only our skin - all i really want is to wake up not knowing where i end and you begin.
• there’s a corner of my heart that is yours. and i don’t mean for now, or until i’ve found somebody else, i mean forever. i mean to say that whether i fall in love a thousand times over or once or never again, there’ll always be a small quiet place in my heart that belongs only to you.
• self love is an ocean and your heart is a vessel. make it full, and any excess will spill over into the lives of the people you hold dear. but you must come first.
• home is not where you are from, it is where you belong. some of us travel the whole world to find it. others, find it in a person.
• i learned much too late that what you called love was nothing but a
• desperate and irrational fear of a life lived alone.
• a relationship should not be measured in months or years. it's the calibre of the memories that matter. their impact, their permanence, and the degree to which they change you. i've had relationships lasting years i can now scarcely recollect, and hours with others that feel like infinities.
• sunsets are proof that endings can often be beautiful too.
• beautiful. crushingly so. you look like the rest of my life.
• hearts aren't handcuffs and people aren't prisons. when you feel it's time for you to leave, you leave. you neither need to wait to be released, nor ask for permission.
• falling for a person isn’t a process. you can’t plan for it in advance, or anticipate its arrival. love strikes in single moments. anywhere. anytime. some day you catch them gardening in the sun, or singing dreadfully in the shower, and you think, oh, i could spend all my life with you.

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