Personal Love Archive

"everyone I've held in my arms I believed I've pushed away." - Juliana Theory, "as it stands"

"When I was young I didn't notice the loneliness. As I got older, staying young became more and more difficult. Loneliness, I realized, was starting to make me old." - Mr. Fix It

"I had even purposely chosen relationships that I knew would have a limited shelf life because I wanted to be able to dump them at the drop of a hat." - My Legendary Girlfriend by Mike Gayle

"But it has always seemed to me that it must be heavenly to be loved blindly, passionately, wholly...worshipped in fact." - The Scarlet Pimpernel

"I can feel it in my bones: I'm gonna spend my whole life alone." - Liz Phair, 'f*!@ and run'

"when you run into the later loves, that's when things get scary. I mean, it's at that point you've got a potential keeper on your hands. and to me that means: run for your life; it could be final love." - Girls' Poker Night by Jill A. Davis

"In my heart I know the answer that all the things I looked so hard to find were right here all along." - Amanda Marshall, "right here all along"

"'I had the heart of a relationship, but no body to grow it in.'" - Judi Piccoult, "my sister's keeper"

"Many people fear bugs, for others it's roller coasters that scare them, but for me? No, nothing that simple. I fear the one thing that has ruined my life forever... a broken heart."

"The romantics would call this a love story, the cynics would call it a tragedy. In my mind it's a little bit of both, and no matter how you choose to view it in the end, it does not change the fact that it involves a great deal of my life and the path I've chosen to follow." - Nicholas Sparks, 'The Notebook'