“I sometimes think the stronger you feel about someone, the harder it is to picture their face when you are away from them.”

“Once someone's hurt you, it's harder to relax around them, harder to think of them as safe to love. But it doesn't stop you from wanting them.”

Holly Black book White Cat

“When you negate the negative that someone thinks or feels with the positive, you are denying them the authentic support they need to deal with what they are facing.”

Teal Swan (1984) American spiritual teacher

“Push something in someone’s face, and they will shove it away reflexively. Threaten to snatch it away from them, and sometimes they become convinced that it is what they want.”

Frances Hardinge (1973) British children's writer

“It hurts to let go. Sometimes it seems the harder you try to hold on to something or someone the more it wants to get away. You feel like some kind of criminal for having felt, for having wanted. For having wanted to be wanted.”

Henry Rollins (1961) American singer-songwriter

“When I'm thinking about how beautiful you are……I stroke your face with my hand

When you cry….. I wipe away your tears

When you feel happy….. I feel happy also.

When you feel blue….. I am your cheerleader

There are so many things and occassions that I will be there for you.

This is how I know I want to Marry You!”

Stephie Pahlavi Zan

“When you own a piano, it's harder to think about moving.”

Stephen King book Misery

“It is much harder to lie to someone's face.
But.
It is also much harder to tell the truth to someone's face.”

David Levithan (1972) American author and editor

“I guess, really thinking about it, I always assumed when you missed someone, it was tangible… something real you could grab and hold on to, but it's a not-there feeling.”

Norma Fox Mazer (1931–2009) American children's writer

“When I have to think about it, I know the picture is wrong. And sizing is a form of thinking and coloring is too. My instinct about painting says, 'If you don’t think about it, it's right'. As soon as you have to decide and choose, it's wrong. And the more you decide about, the more wrong it gets. Some people, they paint abstract, so they sit there thinking about it because their thinking makes them feel they're doing something. But my thinking never makes me feel I'm doing anything.”

Andy Warhol (1928–1987) American artist