#comp

You couldn't just pick and choose at will when someone depended on you, or loved you. It wasn't like a light switch, easy to turn on or off. If you were in, you were in. Out, you were out. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#loved #relationships #love

He was the toast to her butter. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#love #love

Men don't complicate women, women complicate themselves. ↗

— Delia Medina

#men #women #men

I am beginning to remember what it means to need things. Laughter. Companionship. Love. " He leant forward and pressed his forehead to mine. "And I need you, Merit. ↗

— Chloe Neill

#companionship #ethan #love #merit #need

How we need that security. How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: I need this. I need someone to pour myself into. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#desire #love #need #security #sylvia-plath

The more I lived with Jan, the more I loved her, the more I made her miserable. It was a vicious cycle (page 209)……The more I loved her the more I hated her. And the more she loved me, the more I harmed myself (page 269). ↗

— Marvin Gaye

#david-ritz #divided-soul #hate #janis-hunter #love

You say that you hope I will be recognized as the best novelist of my generation. I want you to know now and know completely that that would mean to me absolutely nothing. ↗

— Jean Stafford

#absolutely nothing #best #completely #generation #hope

The point is not that this world is too sad to love or too glad not to love; the point is that when you do love a thing, its gladness is a reason for loving it, and its sadness a reason for loving it more. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#gladness #love #sadness #love

You could at least complain,” I say. “I adore complaining. It calms the nerves. ↗

— Franny Billingsley

#humor #humor

Why do you have to be so annoying sometimes?" "Cant help it. It's the company I keep. ↗

— Kamila Shamsie

#company #humor #humor