Rachael Crowe

If These 24 Quotes Don't Make You Think Of Them, Don't Marry Them

Because you need to be ready to love them for better or for worse. 
Heidi Priebe
February 28, 2017
“I will love you as a thief loves a gallery and as a crow loves a murder, as a cloud loves bats and as a range loves braes. I will love you as misfortune loves orphans, as fire loves innocence and as justice loves to sit and watch while everything goes wrong.”
— Lemony Snicket, Unknown
Tagged: Love, Relationships, Metaphors
“I will love you if I never see you again and I will love you if I see you every Tuesday.”
— Lemony Snicket, A Series Of Unfortunate Events
Tagged: Love, Breakups, Change
“I wish I’d done everything on Earth with you.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Tagged: Love, Regret, Breakups, Change, Nostalgia
“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Tagged: Love, Relationships, Giving Love, Opening Up, Self-improvement, Self-Help, Self-Love
“Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn’t have to invent a thing.”
— Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close
Tagged: Love, Imagination, Idealism, Relationships, Home
“I got lost in him, and it was the kind of lost that’s exactly like being found.”
— Claire LaZebnik, Epic Fail
Tagged: Love, Getting Lost, Co-dependency, Relationships, Falling In Love
“I have seen the best of you and the worst of you, and I choose both.”
— Sarah Kay, Phil Kaye, An Origin Story
Tagged: Love, Relationships, Perfection, Imperfection, Choosing Love
“I do not want to look for a mad passionate affair. Not because I’m frightened but because, please believe me, I do not want a lover. I want a friend.”
— Anne Sexton, A Self-Portrait In Letters
Tagged: Love, Passion, Lovers, Friendship, Falling In Love, romance
“I hope 
that if alternate universes exist, 
 it will still be you and me 
 in the end. I hope that 
 there will always be an us. 
 In every world, 
 in every story.”
— Tina Tran, Let Us Always Find Each Other
Tagged: Love, Relationships, Alternate Universes, Multiverses
“You could come knocking on my door five years from now and I would open my arms wider and say ‘come here, it’s been too long, it felt like home with you.’”
— Azra T., My Heart Is Full Of Open Windows
Tagged: Love, Timing, Lost Love, Relationships, Moving On
“Those mornings when we kiss and surrender for an hour before we say a single word.”
— David Levithan, The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel
Tagged: Sex, Love, Kissing
“Anyone who is in love is making love the whole time, even when they’re not. When two bodies meet, it is just the cup overflowing. They can stay together for hours, even days. They begin the dance one day and finish it the next, or–such is the pleasure they experience–they may never finish it. No eleven minutes for them.”
— Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes: A Novel (P.S.)
Tagged: Intimacy, Sex, Love, Relationships
“We all want someone to build a fort with. We want somebody to swap crayons with and play hide-and-seek with and live out imaginary stories with. We start out getting that from our family. Then we get it from our friends. And then, for whatever reasons, we get it in our heads that we need to get that feeling- that intimacy- from a single someone else. We call if growing up. But really, when you take sex out of it, what we want is a companion. And we make that so damn hard to find.”
— David Levithan, Are We There Yet
Tagged: Friendship, Love, Intimacy
“If you’re fortunate enough, you will find a person who sees this world in the exact same way that you do.”
— Ryan O'Connell, You Can’t Get Through Your 20s Without A Best Friend
Tagged: Friendship, Life, Friends, Love
“I want to do everything on earth with you. I want to float down rivers, traverse deserts, scale mountains and submerge ourselves into the sea. I want to take on a lifetime worth of challenges alongside you but most of all, I want to come home to you.”
— Heidi Priebe, I Want To Do Everything On Earth With You
Tagged: Quality Time, Love, travel, Adventure
“When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.”
— Brené Brown, Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
Tagged: Authenticity, Relating, Love, Connection, Bravery, strength
“I laughed and said, Life is easy. What I meant was, Life is easy with you here, and when you leave, it will be hard again.”
— Miranda July, No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories
Tagged: Life, Difficulty, Struggle, Love
“You’ll know that someone loves you when they do not make excuses. They aren’t trying to evade you or cover any suspicious tracks. They are upfront about where they’ve been, where they’re going and where they are. They want you to understand that they are human and they’ve made mistakes. They know you’re going to make them, too.”
— Heidi Priebe, Here Is How You’ll Know That Someone Loves You
Tagged: Love, Relationships
“It's a damn dream when you find someone you can do nothing with. Whether you're skydiving together or sitting at home and doing different things, it's always comfortable. That is fucking love.”
— Ryan O'Connell, How To Tell If Somebody Loves You
Tagged: Love
“I can't remember ever not loving you.”
— Caitlyn Siehl, What We Buried
Tagged: Poetry, Love
“We loved like we were trying to make up for lost time.
Every touch an apology, an
'I'm sorry I haven't been with you every day since elementary school.'”
— Caitlyn Siehl, What We Buried
Tagged: Poetry, Love
“When you are with the right person, time falls away.”
— Heidi Priebe, The Truth About Meeting Someone At The Wrong Time
Tagged: Timing, Love, Relationships
“You never meet the right people at the wrong time because the right people are timeless.”
— Heidi Priebe, The Truth About Meeting Someone At The Wrong Time
Tagged: Timing, Love, Relationships