I suppose I think about love more than anyone really should. I am constantly amazed by its sheer power to alter and define our lives.
-The Holiday

In my opinion, the best thing you can do is find a person who loves you for exactly what you are. Good mood, bad mood, ugly, pretty, handsome, what have you, the right person will still think the sun shines out your ass. That's the kind of person that's worth sticking with.
-Juno

I heard what you said. I’m not the silly romantic you think. I don’t want the heavens or the shooting stars. I don’t want gemstones or gold. I have those things already. I want…a steady hand. A kind soul. I want to fall asleep, and wake, knowing my heart is safe. I want to love, and be loved. -Shana Abe

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return. -Maya Angelou

If a dude isn't calling you when he says he will, or making sure you know that he's dating you, then you already have your answer. Stop making excuses for him; his actions are screaming the truth: he's just not that into you.

- Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo , He's just not that into you

Afraid and shy, I let my chance go by; the chance that you might love me, too. You give your hand to me, and then you say goodbye.
- Jann Arden

I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not fuck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together, in the most innocent sense of the phrase. But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating. So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was hurricane. John Green, Looking for Alaska

There's nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons. -Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

In some ways we grow up. We have families, we get married, divorced, but for the most part, we still have the same problems that we did when we were fifteen. No matter how much we grow taller, grow older, we are still forever stumbling, forever wondering, forever young.
-Grey's Anatomy

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares. -Henri J. M. Nouwen, The Road to Daybreak: A Spiritual Journey

Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love. -Rainer Maria Rilke

Sure, she’s pretty, but it’s about more than that. You two connect. Anything you throw at her, she can throw right back. You figured out what’s going on in that predictable head of hers in under five minutes, but something tells you her heart would take about five years.
- What She Doesn’t Know Will Kill You

It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not. -James Gordon

What is it you want, Mary? What do you want? You want the moon? Just say the word and I'll throw a lasso around it and pull it down. Hey. That's a pretty good idea. I'll give you the moon, Mary.
- It's a Wonderful Life

I love you. And not in a friendly way, although I think we're great friends. And not in a misplaced affection, puppy-dog way, although I'm sure that's what you'll call it. And it's not because you're unattainable. I love you. Very simple, very truly. You're the epitome of every attribute and quality I've ever looked for in another person. . . . But I had to say it. I can't take this anymore. I can't stand next to you without wanting to hold you. I can't look into your eyes without feeling that longing you only read about in trashy romance novels. I can't talk to you without wanting to express my love for everything you are. And if we never speak again, please know that I am forever changed because of who you are and what you've meant to me. -Chasing Amy

I do my thing, and you do your thing. I am not in this world to live up to your expectations, and you are not in this world to live up to mine. You are you, and I am I, and if by chance we find each other, it's beautiful. -Frederick E. Perl

And what happens if the person you're supposed to be with never appears, or she does, and you're too distracted to notice? -Ever After

Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose. -The Wonder Years

for those of us who try to keep remembering,
try to do our better than our best.
think of all the children in the drifts of snow.
winners never quit, but winters never rest.
- she & him

Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

What if I were smiling and running into your arms? Would you see then what I see now?
-Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

Alone people don't like to hear about the together people...It's just sort of mean. It's sort of like bringing a 6-pack to an AA meeting.
- Grey's Anatomy

So she had to satisfy herself with the idea of love--the loving of things whose existence she didn't care at all about. Love itself became the object of her love. She loved herself in love, she loved loving love, as love loves loving, and was able, in that way, to reconcile herself with a world that fell so short of what she would have hoped for. It was not the world that was the great and saving lie, but her willingness to make it beautiful and fair, to live a once-removed life, in a world once-removed from the one in which everyone else seemed to exit.
- Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated

If you don't leap, you'll never know what it's like to fly.
-Guy Finley

Maybe the thing to do after you roll the dice-and lose-is simply pick them up and roll them again. -Emily Giffin, Something Borrowed

The past did affect the present and the future, in ways you could see and a million ones you couldn't. Time wasn't a thing you could divide easily; there was no defined middle or beginning or end. I could pretend to leave the past behind, but it would not leave me. -Sarah Dessen, Just Listen

It's just that, I just think that some things are meant to be broken. Imperfect. Chaotic. It's the universe's way of providing contrast, you know? There have to be a few holes in the road. It's how life is. -Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever

When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not.
-Mark Twain

She really does like him, she likes lying next to him, she wants to be around him; when you get down to it, can you say that about many people?
Curtis Sittenfeld, The Man of My Dreams

It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.
-Marianne Williamson

So darlin', I just wanna say, just in case I don't come through, I was on to every play. I just wanted you.
- Fiona Apple, Shadowboxer

I am not the kind of girl who thinks a guy is the answer to everything... I'm just tired of being alone.
- My So-Called Life

It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. -J.K. Rowling

You can be anywhere when your life begins. When the future opens up in front of you -- and you may not even realize it at first -- but it's already happening. - Crazy/Beautiful

The friends who grew up with you deserve a special respect. The ones who stuck by your shoulder to shoulder, in a time where nothing was certain, all life lay ahead, and every road led home. - The Wonder Years

I had always been in love with him. I counted the lashes of each closed eye. He had been my almost, my might have been, and I did not want to leave him.
-Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

Songs and smells will bring you back to a moment in time more than anything else. It's amazing how much can be conjured with a few notes of a song or a solitary whiff of a room. A song you didn't even pay attention to at the time, a place that you didn't even know had a particular smell.
- Emily Giffin, Something Borrowed

Wrong turns are as important as right turns. More important sometimes. -Richard Bach

You're going to come across people in your life who will say all the right words at all the right times. But in the end, it's always their actions you should judge them by. It's actions, not words, that matter. -Nicholas Sparks

He loved her, of course, but better than that, he chose her, day after day. Choice: that was the thing.

- Sherman Alexis

Sometimes I hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.
- Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Increidbly Close

We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out. -Ray Bradbury

But there's a story behind everything. How a picture got on a wall. How a scar got on your face. Sometimes the stories are simple, and sometimes they are hard and heartbreaking. But behind all your stories is always your mother's story because hers is where yours begins. -Mitch Albom, For One More Day

I used to think that I wouldn't change anything from my past, because doing so would inevitably affect who I am now. But considering my current state, I'm thinking it might not be a bad idea to go back in time to fix things
- Megan McCafferty, Charmed Thirds

As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed as ignorant as you were at twenty-two, you'd always be twenty-two. Aging is not just decay, you know. It's growth. It's more than the negative that you're going to die, it's the positive that you understand you're going to die, and that you live a better life because of it. -Mitch Albom, Tuesdays With Morrie

Just let me go, we have to be able to criticize what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if you're not trying to make something better, then as far as I can tell, you are just in the way.
-Ani DiFranco, Critics and Critics

If I'm gonna go down I'm gonna do it with style. You won't hear me surrender, you won't hear me confess cause you've left me with nothing but I have worked with less
-Ani DiFranco

The biggest problem in our marriage is that she wants me around.
-Knocked Up

What is family? They were the people who claimed you. In good, in bad, in parts or in whole, they were the ones who showed up, who stayed in there, regardless. -Sarah Dessen

No relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something greater. The love we have for each other is bigger than these small differences. And that's the key. It's like a big pie chart, and the love in a relationship has to be the biggest piece. Love can make up for a lot. -Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby

Life as it happens to me and life as I choose it; they are such very different things. -Mary Anne Radmacher