F. Scott Fitzgerald says we were all just humans…

Posted on September 29, 2014 by Attempted Love

“And in the end, we were all just humans, drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.”

– F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Stephen Chbosky says it was a hopeful kind of sad…

Posted on September 29, 2014 by Attempted Love

“She wasn’t bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just takes time.”

– Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

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Christopher Poindexter says it was rather beautiful…

Posted on September 29, 2014 by Attempted Love

“It was rather

beautiful: the way he

put her insecurities to

sleep.

The way he dove into

her eyes and starved

all the fears

and tasted all the

dreams she kept

coiled beneath her

bones.”

– Christopher Poindexter

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Salvador Plascencia says I don’t know what they are called…

Posted on September 29, 2014 by Attempted Love

“I don’t know what they are called, the spaces between seconds– but I think of you always in those intervals.”

– Salvador Plascencia, The People of Paper

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Willa Cather says where there is great love…

Posted on September 29, 2014 by Attempted Love

“Where there is great love, there are always miracles.”

– Willa Cather

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Cynthia Hand says he wants to keep me safe…

Posted on September 29, 2014 by Attempted Love

“He’s waiting. He’s still waiting. He’s given up everything for me. His entire life. His future. Everything, because he wants to keep me safe. Because he believes, in his heart, that he’s my purpose and I’m his.”

– Cynthia Hand, Boundless

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Sir Hugh Walpole says the most wonderful of all things in life…

Posted on September 25, 2014 by Attempted Love

“The most wonderful of all things in life is the discovery of another human being with whom one’s relationship has a growing depth, beauty and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing; it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of divine accident, and the most wonderful of all things in life.”

– Sir Hugh Walpole

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