"Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that 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 didn't ask for it. They did 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 simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends' 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 real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love."

"Wait for the boy who pursues you, the one who will make an ordinary moment seem magical, the kind of boy who brings out the best in you and makes you want to be a better person, wait for the boy who will be your best friend, the person who will drop everything to be with you at any time of the day no matter what the circumstances, wait for the boy who makes you smile like no other boy makes you smile and when he smiles you know he needs you, wait for the boy who wants to show you off to the world when you are in sweats and have no makeup on, but appreciates it when you get all dolled up for him, and most of all wait for the boy who will put you at the center of his universe, b/c obviously he's at the center of yours"

"No hurt heals by itself. So although we do not choose the ways we are hurt, we can choose the ways we will heal."

"I've learned that you cannot make someone love you. All you can do is be someone who can be loved. The rest is up to them."

"Take a second out to think about this: in your life you search and search for the right person for you. Every time you break up with someone you get one step closer to that person. You should look at moving on as getting closer to meeting the one."

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on!"

"Life isn't about keeping score. It's not about how many people call you and it's not about who you've dated, are dating, or haven't dated at all. It isn't about who you've kissed, what sport you play, or which guy or girl likes you. It's not about your shoes or your hair or the color of your skin or where you live or go to school. In fact, it's not about grades, money, clothes, or colleges that accept you or not. Life isn't about if you have lots of friends, or if you are alone, and it's not about how accepted or unaccepted you are. Life just isn't about that. But life is about who you love and who you hurt. It's about how you feel about yourself. It's about trust, happiness, and compassion.  It's about sticking up for your friends and replacing inner hate with love. Life is about avoiding jealousy, overcoming ignorance, and building confidence. It's about what you say and what you mean. It's about seeing people for who they are and not what they have. Most of all, it is about choosing to use your life to touch someone else's in a way that could never have been achieved otherwise. These choices are what life's about."

"After a while you learn the subtle difference between holding a hand and chaining a soul. You learn that love doesn't mean leaning and company doesn't mean security.  You begin to learn that kisses aren't contracts and presents aren't promises. You begin to accept your defeats with your head up and your eyes open, with the grace of an adult, not the grief of a child. You learn to build all your roads on today because tomorrow's ground is too uncertain for plans. After a while you learn that even sunshine burns if you get too much. So you plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers. You learn that you really can endure, that you really are strong, and you really do have worth."

"A good friend helps you up when you fall. A best friend pees their pants laughing, trips you again, and calls you an asshole"

"Love comes to those who still hope although they've been disappointed; to those who still believe although they've been betrayed, to those who still need Love although they've been hurt before, and to those who have the courage and faith to build trust again."

"I know that God will not give me more than I can handle.  I just wish he didnt trust me so much!"

"As you walk away I see the fire in your eyes and I can hear the laughter in your voice as you watch my heart break. And I am frozen. I cant find the words to tell you that I hate you. I cant tell you how I wish you would just leave my life forever. And I cant tell you how much I hope she hurts you. So instead I tell you I love you. Hoping that the fire in your eyes dies down, and the laughter in your voice becomes tears in your eyes, and that you turn around and un-break my heart. Only to realize that wishes often dont come true, and hearts are more often broken than not. And I stand thereand watch you walk away."

"We may take different steps on different paths, we may get caught up in different aspects of life, we may not be able to touch and share...but our love will always be there."

"No smile is as beautiful as the one that struggles through the tears."

"I know that I should get on with my life, but a life lived without you could never be right, as long as the stars shine down from the heavens, long as the rivers run to the sea, I'll never get over you getting over me."

"Promise me that's all I want. Just a promise that you will never forget me, tell me I changed you somehow, let me know that I had an impact on your life, promise me that you'll always remember me... please. Losing you was hard enough, but I don't want to go on knowing I meant absolutely nothing to you."

"I wanted a perfect ending....now I've learned the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next."

"Nunc scio quit sit amor." <--Latin "Now I know what love is." 

"It's not missing you that kills me ... It's knowing I once had you in my life that does."

"And it's not that I want to have you. All I want is to deserve you."

"I've met another man. He's the best man I've ever met. He's bright, handsome and he's crazy about me. And, he's married. There's only one thing; he doesn't like my hat."

"I have said nothing because there is nothing I can say that would describe how I feel as perfectly as you deserve it." 

"Sometimes, you have to hurt in order to grow, fall in order to know, and lose in order to gain, because most of life's lessons are learned in pain..."

"If two past lovers remain friends...they were either never in love, or have never stopped loving."

"Ive learned there is nothing better than staying up all night talking about nothing, and everything all at once.  Life is not about getting to bed early, waking up early, money, work, or a career.  Life is about finding a smile on your face the next morning because of a laugh or tear the night before.  Life is about laughing until you cry.  Life is about making a fool of yourself just to make someone elses day, sending a quick "I love you" message, staying up an extra hour to help your friend study, suggesting ice cream & movie night at the right moment, giving a hug when no words can be spoken, facing the fears together.  Life is about love plain and simple."

"A heart is a fragile thing. That's why we protect them so vigorously, give them away so rarely, and why it means so much when we do. Some hearts are more fragile than others, pure somehow like crystal in a world of glass, even the way they shatter is beautiful."