So Many Believe

“So many believe that it is love that grows, 

but it is the knowing that grows 

and love simply expands to contain it.”

~ Wm. Paul Young, The Shack

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

Two Separate Beings

“Two separate beings, in different circumstances,

 face to face in freedom and seeking 

justification of their existence through one another, 

will always live an adventure full of risk and promise." 

~ Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

Tell Me

“Tell me whom you haunt 

and I’ll tell you who you are.”

~ Andre Breton

The Only Real Battle

“The only real battle in life 

is between hanging on and letting go.”

~ Shannon L. Alder

The Desire To Love Someone

“The desire to love someone always exceeds 

the desire to be loved by someone 

& that's exactly why we end up loving 

the person who doesn't deserve that LOVE.”

~ Anirban Bose, Bombay Rains, Bombay Girls

To Find Out If She Really Loved Me

“To find out if she really loved me, 

I hooked her up to a lie detector. 

And just as I suspected, 

my machine was broken.

~ Dark Jar Tin Zoo, 

Love Quotes for the Ages. Specifically Ages 19-91.

I Once Loved A Girl

“I once loved a girl who almost loved me, 

but not as much as she loved John Cusack.”

~ Chuck Klosterman, 

Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto

Human Relationships

“Human relationships always help us to carry on 

because they always presuppose further developments, a future - 

and also because we live as if our only task 

was precisely to have relationships with other people.”

~ Albert Camus

There Are All Kinds Of Ways

“There are all kinds of ways for a relationship to be tested, 

even broken, some, irrevocably; 

it’s the endings we’re unprepared for.”

~ Katherine Owen, Not To Us

I Think

“I think of how each person in a marriage 

owes it to the other to find individual happiness, even in a shared life. 

That this is the only way to grow together, instead of apart.”

~ Emily Giffin, Heart of the Matter

A Woman

“A woman can become a man's friend only in the following stages - 

first an acquaintance, 

next a mistress, 

and only then a friend.”

~ Anton Chekhov, Uncle Vanya

Her Face Looked Ugly

“Her face looked ugly in the attempt to avoid tears; 

it was an ugliness which bound him to her 

more than any beauty could have done. 

It isn't being happy together, 

he thought as though it were a fresh discovery, 

that makes one love -- it's being unhappy together.”

~ Graham Greene, The Ministry of Fear

A Tamed Woman

“A tamed woman will never leave her mark in the world.”

~ Robert M. Drake

People Are Islands

“People are islands,' she said. 

'They don't really touch. 

However close they are, they're really quite separate. 

Even if they've been married for fifty years.”

~ Ian Fleming, Casino Royale