“Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.”
— Stephen R. Covey
“I am the dark and I am the light, I am the moon and I am the starless night sky. Fall in love with all that I am or please, do not fall in love with me at all.”
— Unknown
“There are two reasons why people don’t talk about things; either it doesn’t mean anything to them, or it means everything.”
— Unknown
“I want to talk to you. Of course I want to talk to you. I’m just not too sure you want to talk to me.”
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“You may be slow to warm up, but once you do, you light up the whole room.”
— Jenna Evans Welch
“A man can’t love you because you haven’t read as many books as he has? He can’t love you because you don’t speak French or because you don’t go to operas? You’re telling me we have to fall in love with people who are just like us?”
— Billie Letts
“I think you are having a different sort of heartbreak. Maybe a kind of heartbreak of being in the world when you don’t know how to be. If that makes any sense?”
— Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces
Nikita Gill
“I’d much rather have one great person to talk to every night than have several pointless conversations with temporary people.”
— Unknown
"I've always liked quiet people: You never know if they're dancing in a daydream or if they're carrying the weight of the world."
- John Green (Looking for Alaska)