She wants to know if I love her, that's all anyone wants from anyone else, not love itself but the knowledge that love is there, like new batteries in the flashlight in the emergency kit in the hall closet.
-Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

I want someone to call when I get bored, to sneak me junk food when I'm sick, to understand that I mean the opposite of what I say, someone that will know how to cheer me up, that won't have overwhelming expectations of me, that will feel comfortable around my family, just someone that truly enjoys my company as much as I enjoy theirs. -Bounce

Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly. -Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

He stands there, then walks away.
My God, if I could only say
I'm holding every breath for you.
-Taylor Swift

i've heard it said
that people come into our lives for a reason
bringing something we must learn
and we are led
to those who help us most to grow
if we let them
and we help them in return
-wicked, for good

All I understood was that she was the girl I sat up every night thinking about and when I’m with her I feel happy to be alive, like I can do anything, even talk to you like this. So that’s what I feel is love, when I’m better because she’s here. -Boy Meets World

None of those other things make a difference. Love is the strongest thing in the world, you know. Nothing can touch it. Nothing comes close. If we love each other, we're safe from it all. Love is the biggest thing there is.
- Snow Falling On Cedars

Once, when she was six years old, she had fallen from a tree, flat on her stomach. She could still recall that sickening interval before breath came back into her body. Now, as she looked at him, she felt the same way she had felt then, breathless, stunned, nauseated.

-Gone With The Wind

What you feel only matters to you. It's what you do to the people you love. That's what matters. That's the only thing that counts.
-The Last Kiss

the way i see it
isn't necessarily
the way you see it
or the way it is
or ought to be
what's more important
is that we're all
looking for it
and a way to see it.
-desi di nardo

I know he's watching me; I can see him through the cracks. his eyes are small and shy on my back.

- ani difranco, 4th of july

Love does not have to be fireworks, or butterflies. sometimes, love comes softly and slowly. love in its own time, invading your heart- it could be a stranger, or an extended hand. it all depends if you reach out for it.

- Unknown

It's the rule of life that everything you have always wanted comes the very second you stop looking for it.
-Sex & The City

This is why you should never, ever get your hopes up. This is why you should see the glass as half empty. So when the whole thing spills, you aren't as devastated. -Emily Giffin, Something Borrowed

Sure, it sucked to be lost, but I'd long ago realized I preferred it to depending on anyone else to get me where I needed to go. That was the thing about being alone, in theory or in principle. Whatever happened-- good, bad, or anywhere in between-it was always, if nothing else, all your own. -Sarah Dessen, Lock and Key

so many roads, so many detours, so many choices, so many mistakes. as we drive along this road called life occasionally a gal will find herself a little lost. and when that happens, i guess she has to let go of the coulda, shoulda, woulda, buckle up, and just keep going. -sex & the city

I put my hand on him. Touching him was always so important to me. It was something I lived for. I never could explain why. Little, nothing touches. My fingers against his shoulder. The outsides of our thighs touching as we squeezed together on the bus. I couldnt explain it, but I needed it. Sometimes I imagined stitching all of our touches together. How many hundreds of thousands of fingers brushing against each other does it take to make love?

Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

And I loved him, jesus how I loved him. It wasnt love of course, even I can see now that it was infatuation, but at the time it near enough killed me. Its so passionate, so intense, so painful, that even years afterward you still feel the hurt when you hear their name.

- Jane Green, Straight Talking

this is how it works
you peer inside yourself
you take the things you like
and try to love the things you took
-regina spektor, on the radio

Along the way you bump into people who make a dent on your life. Some people get struck by lightning. Some are born to sit by a river. Some have an ear for music. Some are artists. Some swim the English Channel. Some know buttons. Some know Shakespeare. Some are mothers. And some people can dance.

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

it all changed. everything was different. we almost seem like a regular, normal couple. when we're in bed, i want to climb inside of him, and even that would not be close enough. because there is this unnamed thing we share, this deep need. and i don't mean sex -- at least i don't mean just sex. when he kisses my neck or rolls on top of me, i think, there, right there. don't move.

Jill A. Davis - Girls Poker Night

So just kiss me, and let my hair messy itself in your fingers. Let me steady myself in the arms of a man who won't ask me to be what he needs, but lets me exist as I am. -Jewel

But at a certain point the memory of her stopped accompanying me wherever I went. She stayed behind, the way a city stayed behind as a train pulls out of the station. It’s there, somewhere behind you, and you could go back and make sure of it. By why should you? – Bernhard Schlink, The Reader

And I say, 'Baby, I'm sorry that I am so crazy. I am astounded by your patience,' but you say, 'Believe or not, baby, the joy you bring me still outweighs it.'

-Ani Difranco, Sick Of Me

i'm sorry to myself for treating me worse than i would anybody else. -alanis morissette, sorry to myself

i was addicted to saying things and having them matter to someone. -waitress

i know a girl, she puts the color inside of my world.
-john mayer, daughters

I bet you've had a hard time walking into a room full of people on your own, right? Yeah. I know that. I know what it is not to feel like you're in the room until he looks at you or touches your hand or even makes a joke at your expense, just to let everyone know...you're with him. You're his.

- P.S. I Love You

Dear Baby, I hope someday somebody wants to hold you for 20 minutes straight and that's all they do. They don't pull away. They don't look at your face. They don't try to kiss you. All they do is wrap you up in their arms and hold on tight, without an ounce of selfishness in it. -Waitress

contrary to what the cynics say, distance is not for the fearful, it is for the bold. it's for those who are willing to spend a lot of time alone in exchange for a little time with the one they love. it's for those knowing a good thing when they see it, even if they don't see it nearly enough. -O, The Oprah Magazine

if you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. if you don't ask, the answer is always no. if you don't step forward, you're always in the same place. -nora roberts

Sometimes someone says something really small… and if just fits into this empty space in your heart. And you can feel it settling in there, maybe for the rest of your life.

- My So-Called Life

I'm afraid of not having enough time. Not enough time to understand people, how they really are, or to be understood myself. I'm afraid of quick judgments and mistakes that everybody makes. You can't fix them without time. I'm afraid of seeing snapshots instead of movies.- The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

Don't wait for someone to tell you it's too late.

Cause these are the best days.

Graham Colton, Best Days

You see when I've touched the sky
The earth's gravity has pulled me down
But now I've reconciled that in this world
Birds and angels get the wings to fly
-tracy chapman, at this point in my life

I am listening to the low moan of the dial tone again, and I am getting nowhere with you ... and I can't let it go, and I can't get through...

- ani difranco, both hands

imperfection is beauty; madness is genius. and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring. -marilyn monroe

I am torn between the compulsion to run and the urge to stand still and hope the danger will pass. -Koren Zailckas, Smashed

I can only hope that Camus was right when he wrote that "what gives value to travel is fear." I suppose it's possible that a little dash of fear gives value to more than just travel. For one thing, it can teach us to be brave. - without reservations, alice steinbach

I miss you. Whenever something funny happens, I always wanna tell you about it.

- Sex and The City

Each of us may think we know exactly what we need to make us happy, what will be good for us, what will ensure we have our happy ending, but life rarely works out in the way we expect, and our happy ending may have all sorts of unexpected twists and turns, be shaped in all sorts of unexpected ways. -Jane Green, Swapping Lives

But, like ivy, we grow where there is room for us.

-Miranda July, No One Belongs Here More Than You

When I picked up the phone I realized that out of the billions of people on the planet, you were the one I wanted to speak to the most. It was like the deepest part of me took control and said what it felt, unafraid of embarrassment or rejection or any of that other stuff that normally leaves me paralyzed with fear. I didn't think. I just was. - My Legendary Girlfriend by Mike Gayle

You don't have to know the right way, the perfect way to do something. You just try it with your heart. And it works. - Pink by Marilyn Griffith

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want. -Lao Tzu

I know I have a heart because I can feel it breaking.

- Wizard of Oz

So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

- Lee Iacocca

While you can't leave it behind, you can look at the events of your past from a new point of view. Turn them around. See all the angles. Consider it your second chance. Second chances do come your way. Like trains, they arrive and depart regularly. Recognizing the ones that matter is the trick. - Jill A. Davis, Ask Again Later

And the weirdest thing of all is that it feels so right. I suppose it's true what they say, you never know it's right until it is, although I'm really scared of saying that out loud just in case he turns out to be a bastard, but somehow I don't think he will. -Jane Green, Mr. Maybe

nothing splendid has ever been achieved expect by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance. -bruce barton

"Love is not a feeling, Mr. Burns. It's an ability."

– Dan in Real Life

you have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. what you'll discover will be wonderful. what you'll discover will be yourself. -alan alda

there will come a time when you believe everything is finished. that will be the beginning. -louis l'amour

All of the things in my life that worked suddenly seemed broken. So I abandoned my former life. Truth be told? It was an emergency escape hatch that released me from a job that had kidnapped my personal life, and got me out of a relationship I was too afraid to engage in.

- Jill A. Davis, Ask Again Later

life's like that, with awesome impersonality it ambushes us, changing our lives and the lives of those we love in an instant. - alice steinbach, without reservations

if you and i are a story
that never gets told
if what you are is a daydream
i'll never get to hold, at least you'll know

-taylor swift, stay beautiful

You better know that in the end
It’s better to say too much
Than never to say what you need to say again

-John Mayer, Say

To me you are perfect, and my wasted heart will always love you.

- Love Actually

i will never ask

if you don't ever tell me.

-alkaline trio

i think we're here for each other.
-carol burnett

I think relationships can be defined by big moments that don't happen - or by the little ones that do.

-Scrubs

I realize that our visits are starting to run together in one delicious blur of talking, touching, dozing, and simply existing together in a warm, easy silence. Like the perfect beach vacation, where the routine is so blissfully uneventful that when you return home and friends ask how your trip was, you can't really recall what exactly you did to fill up so many hours. That is what being with him is like.

- Something Borrowed by Emily Giffin