"I don't want to be with somebody who would rather be with me than with nobody. I want to be with somebody who would rather be with me than with anybody."
"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 firmly convinced that it's better to spend your time looking for someone who will treat you right, than to waste your time with someone who does you wrong."
"I try to teach my heart not to want nothing it can't have."
"Why should I settle for a cubic zirconium when there is a big shiny sexy diamond standing right in front of me?" - Party of Five
"I've noticed that i always want what i can't have.. especially in relationships.. and I'm always causing problems to make the relationship unattainable.. because when i want what i can't have.. well i can't get hurt…" - beckie
"i'm sad that this is the kind of person i am. i am a person who will stay in a relationship for three years because i know that this relationship will never hurt me. i will park my love here because here i will never experience great joy, but more important, i will never be devastated. the dissolving of this won't be painful at all. it will just be a formality. a formal ending to something that barely or never existed." - girls' poker night by jill a davis
"it's all about might. it might hurt. it might not work. it might be awful. i never think it might work. it might be good. it might be fun." - girls' poker night by jill a davis
"it's funny how the prospect of love is so much more interesting when you don't actually know the person you're fabricating a fantasy life with. i can't allow reality to get in my way." - girls' poker night by jill a davis
"there was no difficult period of forgetting him or getting over him. which made me wonder if i had ever loved him, or anyone else." - girls' poker night by jill a davis
"I've always avoided fights. i make jokes instead. i tell people what they want to hear in order to avoid a confrontation. i pretend to want things i don't want, and i pretend not to want things i do want. no one gets hurt. except me. the lines are so crossed and blurred at the point that i don't know what i want. i just know i want it to be easy." - girls' poker night by jill a davis
"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
"I never wanted any of them. I just didn't want to be alone. I was a user." - My legendary Girlfriend by Mike Gayle
"experience had taught me that even the most precious memories fade with the passage of time." - The Wedding by Nicholas Sparks
"Most people are looking for someone to love, but me, I'm simply looking for the ability to love."
"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
"how I spend my life wondering why I never seem to have healthy, happy relationships. How I probably wouldn't know a healthy, happy relationship if it jumped on my head and knocked me sideways." - Mr. Maybe by Jane Green
"I've always thought that it would happen really quickly, that I'd meet someone, we'd fall in love, and we'd probably both know by the end of our first evening that this was it. I'm not sure how I'd know, but I'm convinced I would. The only problem with that is, I think I know with all of them." - Mr. Maybe by Jane Green
"I wish I could be hard and cynical. That I could take things slowly, not give too much of myself, because I'd be so frightened of getting hurt that there wouldn't be any other way. But no. every time I meet someone I dive in headfirst, showering them with love and attention, and hoping that this time they're going to be different." - Mr. Maybe by Jane Green
"just because he's good company doesn't mean I fancy him, but then maybe fancying someone isn't what it's all about? Maybe I've been wrong in waiting for that sweep you off your feet feeling, the feeling I had with [him]. And, let's face it, it didn't exactly work with [him], so maybe I've been looking for the wrong thing." - Mr. Maybe by Jane Green
"I'd rather spend the rest of my life cooking for one than being with someone who can do without me." - everwood
"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."
"Maybe there isn't a Mr. Right. Maybe there's a Mr. Good Enough."
"I know what I should do but I just can't walk away."- Jimmy Eat World
"People who have slept in the same bed for twenty-five years may not be truly joined, and people who are many miles apart may not seperate at all." -a return to love
