Booktoria

“It's sweet and everything, but it's like you're not even there sometimes. It's great that you can listen and be a shoulder to someone, but what about when someone doesn't need a shoulder? What if they need the arms or something like that? You can't just sit there and put everybody's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You just can't. You have to do things."
"Like what?" I asked. My mouth was dry.
"I don't know. Like take their hands when the slow song comes up for a change. Or be the one who asks someone for a date. Or tell people what you need. Or what you want.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“They stood together in a false intimacy, a nervous contact. And he was in love with her.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Women in Love

“True love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops.”
― William Goldman, The Princess Bride

“Do you love her?' she asked him.
'Always have,' he said.
'Then why in the world would you leave her alone?”
― Suzanne Palmieri, The Witch of Little Italy