“I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself”

“My only love sprung from my only hate!
Too early seen unknown, and known too late!
Prodigious birth of love it is to me,
That I must love a loathed enemy.”

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English playwright and poet

“Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.”

Jean Paul Sartre book The Devil and the Good Lord

“My happiness has to come from within myself or it is too fragile a thing to be of any use to me and too much of a burden to benefit any of my loved ones.”

Mary Balogh (1944) Welsh-Canadian novelist

“Is it a shame that I can’t accept love? Am I too burned out to move towards what will keep me alive or too smart to get pulled into someone else’s world?”

Henry Rollins (1961) American singer-songwriter

“I'm so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything,' maybe that would have made the impossible possible. Maybe, but I couldn't do it, I had buried too much too deeply inside me. And here I am, instead of there.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“And I know, and you know too
That a love, like ours
Is terrible news
But that wont stop me crying
No, that wont stop me crying over you”

Zooey Deschanel (1980) American actress, musician, and singer-songwriter

“I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent.”

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer

“But I could love you, too, sister. If you’d let me.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

“In the end, the only person I truly want to comfort me is Haymitch, because he loves Peeta, too.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay