Personal Love Archive

"Everyone has at least five dreams every night. That's thirty-billion dreams. One of them has got to be about me."

"I'd rather spend the rest of my life cooking for one than being with someone who can do without me." - Everwood

"'I'm kind of rusty in the relationship department. at least the real relationship department.'" - the heat seekers by Zane

"most of all, I learned that it's possible for two people to fall in love all over again, even when there's been a lifetime of disappointment between them." - The Wedding by Nicholas Sparks

"I have high hopes that this year will be the year the dumb girl in me finally dies. she is long overdue for a painless, or even a painful, death. I'm so sick of listening to her try to convince me of things I know don't make any sense: that the plots of romantic movies are plausible; that men who have cheated repeatedly might suddenly decide to turn over a new leaf; that guys who are assholes might turn out to be more considerate in time." - It's My F---ing Birthday by Merrill Markoe

"I would rather you say 'I love you,' just once and truly mean it than say it a thousand times and never mean it even once."

"There's only one thing greater than my fear -- that is my love. My love will always conquer my fear -- but it can't do it immediately. It needs the full force of my love to do it and it takes days for that to emerge out of its dark hiding places."

"when I'm really serious about making this love thing work, I start bargaining. maybe we all do. I gather up my vices -- sugar, buying houseplants and then never watering them, cynicism -- and promise to abstain from all three in exchange for a new, more optimistic prospective. a life that works." - Girls' Poker Night by Jill A. Davis

"I do what most women do. I meet someone and some of it's right, maybe he looks right, or has the right job, or the right background, and, instead of sitting back and waiting for him to reveal his other bits, I make them up. I decide how he thinks, how he's going to treat me, and, sure enough, every time I conclude that this time he's definitely my perfect man, and all of a sudden, well, not so suddenly perhaps, usually around six months after we've split up, I see that he wasn't the person I thought he was at all." - Mr. Maybe by Jane Green

"Have you ever been in love? Horrible, isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens your heart and it means someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses. You build up this whole armor, for years, so nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you. They don't ask for it. They do something dumb one day like kiss you, or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so a simple phrase like 'maybe we should just be friends' or 'how very perceptive' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a body-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love." - Sandman: The Kindly Ones by Neil Gaman