He Loved Her

“He loved her for almost everything she was & 

she decided that was enough to let him stay for a very long time.” 

~ Brian Andreas

I Won't Telephone Him

“I won't telephone him.

 I'll never telephone him again as long as I live. 

He'll rot in hell before I'll call him up. 

You don't have to give me strength, God; I have it myself.

 If he wanted me, he could get me. He knows where I am.

 He knows I'm waiting here. 

He's so sure of me, so sure. 

I wonder why they hate you, as soon as they are sure of you.” 

~ Dorothy Parker, The Portable Dorothy Parker

When You Find a Guy

“When you find a guy who calls you beautiful instead of hot,

 who calls you back when you hang up on him, 

who will stand in front of you when others cast stones, 

or will stay awake just to watch you sleep, 

who wants to show you off to the world when you are in sweats, 

who will hold your hand when you're sick, 

who thinks you're pretty without makeup, 

the one who turns to his friends and says, ‘that’s her’, 

the one that would bear your rejection
because losing you means losing his will to live, 

who kisses you when you screw up, 

watches the stars and names one for you and 

will hold and rock that baby for hours so you can sleep…

you marry him all over again.” 

~ Shannon Alder

He Wasn't the Type

“He wasn't the type for displays of affection, either verbal or not. 

He was disgusted by couples that made out in the hallways between classes, 

and got annoyed at even the slightest sappy moments in movies. 

But I knew he cared about me: he just conveyed it more subtly, 

as concise with expressing this emotion as he was with everything else. 

It was in the way he'd put his hand on the small of my back, 

for instance, or how he'd smile at me when I said something that surprised him. 

Once I might have wanted more, but I'd come around 

to his way of thinking in the time we'd been together. 

And we were together, all the time. 

So he didn't have to prove how he felt about me. 

Like so much else, I should just know.” 

~ Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever