“Don’t feel sad over someone who gave up on you, feel sorry for them because they gave up on someone who would have never given up on them.”

“You cannot make someone love you. All you can do is be someone who can be loved. The rest is up up them.”

H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (1940) American writer

“Nobody really wants to spend life with someone who has no other choice, and children who have been raised by a mother who gave up her life for them almost always spend years on an analyst's couch learning to spit in her eye.”

Merle Shain (1935–1989) Canadian writer

“I prefer someone who burns the flag and then wraps themselves up in the Constitution over someone who burns the Constitution and then wraps themselves up in the flag.”

Molly Ivins (1944–2007) American journalist

“A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them.”

Jim Morrison (1943–1971) lead singer of The Doors

“… only someone who'd never been an animal would put up a sign saying not to feed them….”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“Those who gave away their wings are sad not to see them fly.”

Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet

“Most truth's are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit.”

Edward R. Murrow (1908–1965) Television journalist

“You don't have to talk to someone to think about them and check up on them now and again.”

Emily Giffin (1972) American writer

“Keep your chin up. Eventually, you will meet someone who cares about your opinion. I'm so sorry I'm not her.”

Ally Carter book All Fall Down