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

Lonely People

“Lonely people tend, rather, to be lonely because

 they decline to bear the psychic costs of being around other humans. 

They are allergic to people. People affect them too strongly.” 

~ David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: 

Essays and Arguments

People Die

“People die, I think, but your relationship with them doesn't. 

It continues and is ever-changing.” 

~ Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

I Have No Right

“I have no right to say or do anything that 

diminishes a man in his own eyes. 

What matters is not what I think of him but 

what he thinks of himself. 

Hurting a man in his dignity is a crime.” 

~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

A True Gentleman

“A true gentleman is one that apologizes anyways, 

even though he has not offended a lady intentionally. 

He is in a class all of his own because he 

knows the value of a woman's heart.” 

~ Shannon Alder

And Then the Line

“And then the line was quite but not dead.

 I almost felt like he was there in my room with me, 

but in a way it was better, 

like I was not in my room and he was not in his, 

but instead we were together in some invisible 

and tenuous third space that could only be visited on the phone.” 

~ John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

When You Struggle With Your Partner

“When you struggle with your partner, 

you are struggling with yourself. 

Every fault you see in them touches 

a denied weakness in yourself.” 

~ Deepak Chopra

I Want To Be Around People

“I want to be around people that do things. 

I don’t want to be around people anymore that 

judge or talk about what people do. 

I want to be around people that dream and support and do things.” 

~ Amy Poehler

The Best Relationships

“The best relationships in our lives are the best 

not because they have been the happiest ones, 

they are that way because they have stayed strong 

through the most tormentful of storms.” 

~ Pandora Poikilos, Excuse Me, My Brains Have Stepped Out

I Define Connection

“I define connection as the energy that exists 

between people when they feel seen, heard, and valued; 

when they can give and receive without judgment; 

and when they derive sustenance and strength from the relationship.” 

~ Brené Brown

Can Officially Confirm

“Can officially confirm that the way to a man's heart 

these days is not through beauty, food, sex, 

or alluringness of character, but merely the

 ability to seem not very interested in him.” 

~ Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones's Diary

Misgivings, n.

Happy 6th Anniversary to this Blog on July 27th!  :)

“misgivings, n.

Last night, I got up the courage to ask you if you regretted us.

"There are things I miss," you said. "But if I didn't have you, I'd miss more.” 

~ David Levithan, The Lover's Dictionary