— Shana Abé

“I heard what you said. I’m not the silly romantic you think. I don’t want the heavens or the shooting stars. I don’t want gemstones or gold. I have those things already. I want a steady hand. A kind soul. I want to fall asleep, and wake, knowing my heart is safe. I want to love, and be loved.”

be the reason

Today, 

be the reason 

someone feels loved.

— where the romance never dies and the roses never wilt

“I just want to be loved the right way. I want to come home to all of the windows open, the curtains swaying in the wind and the scent of apple pie drifting down the hall. I want to be loved even when I’m quiet and deep in thought gardening. I want a love that admires simplicity. 

Give me a love that is two cups of coffee gone cold because we decided to make love on the kitchen floor. Show me a love that fills the spaces between my ribs with passion.

A love that doesn’t fade in the night but whispers “forever” as we fall asleep.”

— Gemma Teller

“Only men need to be loved, sweetheart. 

Women need to be wanted.”

— Unknown

“Before you can grow up, you must fall in love three times. Once, you must fall in love with your best friend, ruining your friendship forever. This will teach you who your true friends are, and the fine line between friendship and more. 

Once you must fall in love with someone you believe is perfect. You will learn that no one is perfect, and that you should never be treated as anything less than you deserve. 

And once, you must fall in love with someone that is exactly like you. This will teach you about who you are, and who you want to be. And when you’re through will all that, you learn that the people who care about you the most are the ones that you hurt, and the ones that hurt you are the ones that needed you the most. 

But most of all, you learn that love is only a concept and is not something that can be defined, it is different to each and every person on this earth, knowing that everyone only wants to be loved.”

i saw that you were perfect

— Shana Abé

“I’m not the silly romantic you think. I don’t want the heavens or the shooting stars. I don’t want gemstones or gold. I have those things already. I want… a steady hand. A kind soul. I want to fall asleep, and wake, knowing my heart is safe. I want to love, and be loved.”

and more like a human.

私は愛されるよりも何も望んでいない。

I wanted nothing more than to be loved.

知られるように、尊重されるように。

To be known and to be respected.

小さい怪物のように扱われることがあります

To be treated less like a monster—

多くの人間のように。

—and more like a human.

— One Tree Hill

“We all want to be loved … to be happy. So why aren’t we? Because we’ve become experts at sabotaging our own happiness. Feeling like victims when in fact it’s the choices we make, the bad habits, the vices, the inability to show love and compassion. These are things that tear us down. We’re not victims. We’re assassins when it comes to love and happiness.”

Go right ahead. Laugh at a girl who loved too easily.

Be careful if you make a woman cry because God counts her tears.

Be careful if you

make a woman cry

because God counts her 

tears. The woman came

out from his ribs.

Not from his feet to be

walked on, not from his 

head to be a superior,

but from his side to be 

equal, under the arm to

be protected and next to

the heart to be loved....

i wanted to help myself realize why i even loved you at all.

if you carry one thing

To love and be loved in return

— Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

“You can be lonely even when you are loved by many people,

 since you are still not anybody’s one and only.”

— Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

to be loved by the one you love

To love someone is one thing, to be loved is another, to be loved by the one you love is everything

— Cassandra Clare

“The boy never cried again, and he never forgot what he’d learned: that to love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed.”

STOP. READ. THIS. NOW.

~Galileo Galilei

   “I have loved stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”   

forget someone you loved

Trying to forget someone you loved is like

 trying to remember someone you never 

knew.