You Can't Lose Something

“You Can't Lose Something You Never Had”

~ Kate G. Hudson

Don't Worry About Hurting Me

“Don't worry about hurting me, 

if that's what you're afraid of.

 I want to get hurt. 

At least I´ll feel something for a change.”

~ Katie Kacvinsky, Awaken

Annabeth

“Annabeth,” he said hesitantly, “in New Rome, 

demigods can live their whole lives in peace.”

Her expression turned guarded. 

“Reyna explained it to me. 

But, Percy, you belong at Camp Half-Blood. 

That other life—”

“I know,” Percy said. “But while I was there, 

I saw so many demigods living without fear: 

kids going to college, couples getting married and raising families. 

There’s nothing like that at Camp Half-Blood. 

I kept thinking about you and me…

and maybe someday when this war with the giants is over…”

It was hard to tell in the golden light, 

but he thought Annabeth was blushing. “Oh,” she said…

“I’m sorry,” he said. “I just…

I had to think of that to keep going. 

To give me hope. Forget I mentioned—”

“No!” she said. “Gods, Percy, that’s so sweet.”

~ Rick Riordan, The Mark of Athena

You Fit Into Me

“You fit into me

like a hook into an eye

a fish hook

an open eye” 

~ Margaret Atwood

When God Knows You're Ready

“When God knows you're ready for the responsibility of commitment, 

He'll reveal the right person under the right circumstances.” 

~ Joshua Harris, I Kissed Dating Goodbye: 

A New Attitude Toward Relationships and Romance

We All Take Different Paths

“We all take different paths in life,

 but no matter where we go, 

we take a little of each other everywhere.” 

~ Tim McGraw

When What You Hear

“When what you hear and 

what you see don't match, 

trust your eyes.” 

~ Dale Renton

That's Why I Loved Being With You

“That's why I loved being with you. 

We could do the simplest things, 

like toss starfish into the ocean 

and share a burger and talk 

and even then I knew that I was fortunate. 

Because you were the first guy who 

wasn't constantly trying to impress me. 

You accepted who you were, 

but more than that, 

you accepted me for me. 

And nothing else mattered -- 

not my family or your family 

or anyone else in the world. 

It was just us.” 

~ Nicholas Sparks, The Best of Me

Love Doesn't Mean Anything

“Love doesn't mean anything if you're not willing to make a commitment, 

and you have to think not only about what you want, 

but about what he wants. 

Not just now, but in the future.”

~ Nicholas Sparks, Safe Haven

Unrequited Love

“Unrequited love is the infinite curse of a lonely heart.” 

~ Christina Westover

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