“You don’t just walk away from someone when things get tough, you find a way to stick it out and figure out what’s gone wrong.”— Shana Norris, amazon.com
“However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself. Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.”— Aidan Chambers, amazon.com
“Sometimes you break your heart in the right way, if you know what I mean.”— Gregory David Roberts, amazon.com
“…Difficult relationships come into our lives for a reason. No one would choose them, certainly. But if we let them, they can teach us how to be flexible with others and more forgiving.”— Joan Bauer, goodreads.com
“To love is also good, for love is hard. Love between one person and another: that is perhaps the hardest thing it is laid on us to do, the utmost, the ultimate trial and test, the work for which all other work is just preparation. For this reason young people, who are beginners in everything, do not…”— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com
“You can love somebody and it can change your life but it doesn’t mean that you’re necessarily right to be together forever, but that love will change your life forever. And that’s okay.”— Rashida Jones, ew.com
“It's sad isn't it? I once thought worlds of you and now you're just another lesson.”— Beau Taplin, afadthatlastsforever.tumblr.com
“When we pass by another person without telling them we love them it’s cruel and wrong and we all know this.”— Dave Eggers, amazon.com
“Do not allow him to consume you. If he does not call, go to sleep. If he does not message, put your phone away and have a fantastic day anyway. If he acts distant when you are with him and refuses to tell you what is wrong, don’t wait for him, go home and do something you love. If he tries to insinu…”— Nikita Gill, meanwhilepoetry.tumblr.com
“You deserve someone who loves you with every single beat of [their] heart, someone who thinks about you constantly, someone who spends every minute of every day just wondering what you’re doing, where you are, who you’re with, and if you’re OK. You need someone who can help you reach your dreams and…”— Cecelia Ahern, amazon.com
“At the end of a relationship, it is the one who is not in love that makes the tender speeches.”— Alain de Botton, amazon.com
“Pain only appears in the presence of love. This much I can say I have learnt by heart...”— Sharanya Manivannan, softblow.org
“Every instance of heartbreak can teach us powerful lessons about the kind of love we really want.”— Martha Beck, facebook.com
“I am slowly learning that endings aren’t something to be upset about, but rather, I am slowly learning how to appreciate how damn lucky I was to experience something real and hopeful and light in a world that sometimes fails to be soft.”— Bianca Sparacino, thoughtcatalog.com
“What seems like a reasonable distance to one person may feel too far to somebody else.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“How much of your life, the life you know, is actually your own? We all do things for others, stretching out limbs like thigmotropic plant clinging to the structure of another to both give and receive life-sustaining supplements. But what do we do for ourselves that we do not do for others?What momen…”— Stephanie (Student), amazon.com
“Love makes you dependent; pain pushes you to the breaking point of self-actualization.”— Kim, amazon.com