Rachel

“What she'd thought was love before felt like a girlhood crush compared to the feeling now crashing over her. It sucked her under like riding whitewater rapids, spinning her around, and tossing her wildly into the air. There was no land, no balance, nothing to hold on to except Victor. In those quiet moments, he captured her loyalty and heart forever. She was done.”
― Kat Simons, Once Upon a Tiger

“I planned my whole future around Adam,' she said now, quietly. 'And now I have nothing.'
'No,' I told her, 'now you just don't have Adam. There's a big difference, Lissa. You just can't see it yet.”
― Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby

“But sometimes we crave the love of those we’re afraid to hate.”
― Anthony Breznican, Brutal Youth

“You are going to do some really stupid and mean things in the name of love. Don’t be so hard on yourself when things don’t turn out. You are a good person that loved deeply. Anybody worth having will know that hurting someone is not showing someone who you really are. You’re a sensitive person that showed the depth of your love, by the depth of your pain. Fairytale love will show you only one face. Real love will show you as many faces as it takes to get you to see how much that person really wanted you in their life.”
― Shannon L. Alder