“I think I’ll go anti-love. Really, who needs it? Butterflies in the tummy, heart skipping beats…that can’t be safe.”

“Next time I fall in love, I’m wearing knee pads.”

“I’ve found almost everything ever written about love to be true. Shakespeare said ‘Journeys end in lovers meeting.’ What an extraordinary thought. Personally, I have not experienced anything remotely close to that, but I am more than willing to believe Shakespeare had. I suppose I think about love more than anyone really should. I am constantly amazed by its sheer power to alter and define our lives. It was Shakespeare who also said “love is blind”. Now that is something I know to be true. For some quite inexplicably, love fades; for others love is simply lost. But then of course love can also be found, even if just for the night. And then, there’s another kind of love: the cruelest kind. The one that almost kills its victims. Its called unrequited love. Of that I am an expert. Most love stories are about people who fall in love with each other. But what about the rest of us? What about our stories, those of us who fall in love alone? We are the victims of the one sided affair. We are the cursed of the loved ones. We are the unloved ones, the walking wounded. The handicapped without the advantage of a great parking space! Yes, you are looking at one such individual. And I have willingly loved that man for over three miserable years! The absolute worst years of my life! The worst Christmas’, the worst Birthday’s, New Years Eve’s brought in by tears and valium. These years that I have been in love have been the darkest days of my life. All because I’ve been cursed by being in love with a man who does not and will not love me back. Oh god, just the sight of him! Heart pounding! Throat thickening! Absolutely can’t swallow! All the usual symptoms.” – the holiday

“Love just doesn’t happen to girls like me; girls who build their hopes on an intricate web of day dreams. The truth is that everyone has issues and maybe building up a fake, perfect man in my mind was my biggest issue of all. I’ve been walking around with the ghost of my magic man. He’s been haunting me, keeping me from a world of opportunities that were right in front of me…” – Beauty & the Briefcase

“I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.” – Audrey Hepburn

“I know about safe sex, safe love is the hard thing. I wish they made that kind of protection.”

“I got scars on my heart and they won’t go away; Looking for someone to take them from me.” –  Hilary Duff, “Do you want me?”

“I know now that there are men out there who are, for me, the whole package, who are supportive of my successes because they know I will be just as supportive of theirs. I’m less tolerant of foolishness now; I know that it’s important I not tie myself up with the wrong person, because then I will miss the right person coming along.” - Ginnifer Goodwin

“I don’t want someone who wants someone else.”

“You see, if these theories are wrong, men don’t leave all women. They just leave me.” – someone like you

“I don’t know why, I’ve always been big on happy endings. You see, to me, the most romantic, beautiful love stories ever were the ones where two people meet, fall in love, and then fifty, sixty years later one of them dies and then a few days after that the other one dies because they just can’t bear to live without each other.” – The Story of Us

“I’ve never broken a heart before and I don’t intend to start now.” – Cait

“Did you ever notice that people give up on love as they get older? When you’re a little girl, all you want to do is fall in love. Then when you’re a teenager, every guy you meet you think is ‘the one’. Then when you’re an adult and you have been hurt from the breakups as a teen, you’re not interested in love anymore. You just don’t want to be alone, so you settle for someone you might even know isn’t your soul mate. I know so many adults that aren’t truly where they want to be. I just try to think about what they might have went through to make them settle for second best, and I hope that doesn’t happen to me.”

“I’m really co-dependent. I need crazy, mad attention from guys.” – Real World

“Love is the most dangerous craving of all, if you ask me. it turns us into people we aren’t, it makes us feel like hell, and makes us walk on water. it ruins us for anything else.” -Jodi Picoult, Vanishing Acts

“I’m taking my ride with destiny, willing to play my part, living with painful memories, loving with all my heart.” -Freddie Mercury

“I guess I was just being lead by the heart.” – 90210

“Then I realized what was wrong was, for the first time in my life, I was in a relationship where absolutely nothing was wrong.” – Sex and the City

“I have this ridiculously romantic notion of being swept off my feet and knowing instantly when I meet the man I’m going to marry.” – Mr. Maybe by Jane Green

“Because when your life is sucking you get drunk and sleep with inappropriate men. It’s your thing. Whatever.” – Grey’s Anatomy

“Did my heart betray me back on the road I never chose?” – Amanda Marshall, “last exit to Eden”

“Maybe Romeo and Juliet were fated to be together, but just for a while, and then their time passed. If they could have known that beforehand, maybe it all would have been okay. I told Mrs. Snyder that when I was grown up, I’d take fate into my own hands. I wouldn’t let some guy drag me down. Mrs. Snyder said that I’d be lucky if I ever had that kind of passion with someone, and that if I did, we’d be together forever. Even now, I believe that for the most part, love is about choices. It’s about putting down the poison and the dagger and making your own happy ending…most of the time.” – Grey’s Anatomy

“I may not be a smart man, but I know what love is.” – Forrest Gump

“oh the sound of the wind through my bones makes me laugh at all the bodies I kissed and never knew. oh the sound of a lover’s sympathy falling down to the floor just barely out of reach from me.” – Jann Arden, ‘the sound of’

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“when I’m livid on top of heartbroken I do tend to get carried away.” – a promising man, and about time, too by Elizabeth young

“experience had taught me that even the most precious memories fade with the passage of time.” – The Wedding by Nicholas Sparks

“Love is blind and so unkind… I never can make up my mind!” – The Ataris, “blind and unkind”

“I’m back at it again, setting myself up to get hurt. How many times will I have to get hurt until I realize I can prevent it by not falling in love?” – Justine

“I haven’t had morning sex since I was in college, and then it was only because I didn’t have to be in class till eleven.” – Sex and the City