People

“People generally didn't cheat in good relationships.”

~ Emily Giffin, Something Blue

I Know I'm Not Going to Be

“I know I'm not going to be in your head all the time.

 But once you know me, 

I'll be forever in your heart. ”

~ Crystal Woods, Write like no one is reading

If You're Right & I'm Not

“If you're right & I'm not, 

I'm going to be hell to live with, she said. 

So, you better think about that 

next time you want to be right. ”

~ Brian Andreas

But I Think We Both Knew

“But I think we both knew, even then, 

that what we had was something even more rare, 

and even more meaningful.

 I was going to be his friend 

and was going to show him possibilities.

 And he, in turn, would become someone 

I could trust more than myself.”

~ David Levithan, Boy Meets Boy

Time Has Its Revenges

“Time has its revenges, but revenge seems so often sour. 

Wouldn’t we all do better not trying to understand,

 accepting the fact that no human being will ever understand another,

 not a wife with a husband, nor a parent a child?

 Perhaps that’s why men have invented God –

 a being capable of understanding. ”

~ Graham Greene, The Quiet American

Women Writers

“Women writers make for rewarding (and efficient) lovers. 

They are clever liars to fathers and husbands; 

yet they never hold their tongues too long, 

nor keep ardent typing fingers still.”

~ Roman Payne, Rooftop Soliloquy

It Seems To Me

“It seems to me that if you place music 

(and books, probably, and films, and plays, 

and anything that makes you feel) 

at the center of your being, 

then you can’t afford to sort out your love life, 

start to think of it as the finished product. 

You’ve got to pick at it, 

keep it alive and in turmoil, 

you’ve got to pick at it and unravel it 

until it all comes apart

 and you’re compelled to start all over again.

 Maybe we all live life at too high a pitch, 

those of us who absorb emotional things all day,

 and as a consequence we can never feel merely content:

 we have to be unhappy, or ecstatically,

 head-over-heels happy, 

and those states are difficult to achieve 

within a stable, solid relationship.”

~ Nick Hornby

If I Lived A Million Lives

“If I lived a million lives, 

I would've felt a million feelings 

and I still would've fallen a million times for you.”

~ Robert M. Drake

Madness

“Madness and chaos are self-destructing 

but overthinking is the suicide.”

~ Robert M. Drake

Truth

“Truth builds trust.”

~ Marilyn Suttle

You Know Why

“You know why people pair up into couples? 

Because being a human is fucking terrifying. 

But it's a hell of a lot easier if you're not doing it by yourself.”

~ Alice Oseman, Loveless

You Get Lonely Is What It Is

“You get lonely, is what it is. 

A person's not supposed to go through life with absolutely nobody. 

It's not normal. 

The longer you go by yourself the weirder you get, 

and the weirder you get the longer you go by yourself. 

It's a loop and you gotta do something to get out of it.”

~ Jim Shepard

There Are So Many Movies Like This

“There are so many movies like this, 

where you thought you were smarter than the screen 

but the director was smarter than you, 

of course he's the one, 

of course it was a dream, 

of course she's dead, 

of course, it's hidden right there, 

of course it's the truth and you in your seat 

have failed to notice in the dark.”

~ Daniel Handler, Why We Broke Up

You'll Blow Up A Helicopter

“You'll blow up a helicopter, but you won't go out with me?

 What is wrong with you?”

~ Meg Cabot, When Lightning Strikes

There Are So Many Movies

“There are so many movies like this, 

where you thought you were smarter than the screen 

but the director was smarter than you, 

of course he's the one, of course it was a dream, 

of course she's dead, of course, it's hidden right there, 

of course it's the truth and you in your seat 

have failed to notice in the dark.”

~ Daniel Handler, Why We Broke Up 

Love Him

“Love him,’ said Jacques, with vehemence,

 ‘love him and let him love you. 

Do you think anything else 

under heaven really matters? 

And how long, at the best, can it last, 

since you are both men 

and still have everywhere to go? 

Only five minutes, I assure you, only five minutes, 

and most of that, helas! in the dark. 

And if you think of them as dirty, 

then they will be dirty— 

they will be dirty because you will be giving nothing,

 you will be despising your flesh and his. 

But you can make your time together anything but dirty, 

you can give each other something which will make both of you better—

forever—if you will not be ashamed, if you will only not play it safe.’ 

He paused, watching me, and then looked down to his cognac. 

‘You play it safe long enough,’ he said, in a different tone, 

‘and you’ll end up trapped in your own dirty body, 

forever and forever and forever—

like me.”

~ James Baldwin, Giovanni's Room

I'm Done

“I'm done.

 I don't need anything more out of life.

 I have you, and that's enough.”

~ Alessandra Torre