“Maybe love is just about finding the person you can be your weird self with.”
Matt Haig book Reasons to Stay Alive
Variant: So love is about finding the right person to hurt you?”
“Pretty much.
Source: Reasons to Stay Alive
Source: Angel
“Maybe love is just about finding the person you can be your weird self with.”
Matt Haig book Reasons to Stay Alive
Variant: So love is about finding the right person to hurt you?”
“Pretty much.
Source: Reasons to Stay Alive
Judy Garland (1922–1969) actress, singer and vaudevillian from the United States
As quoted in Little Girl Lost (1974) by Al DiOrio, p. 9
Robert Fulghum (1937) American writer
Variant: You want my opinion? We're all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness — and call it love — true love.
Source: True Love (1998)
Dr. Seuss (1904–1991) American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books
Robert Fulghum in True Love (1998). Versions attributed to Dr. Seuss usually run "mutual weirdness".
Misattributed
“Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.”
Jean de La Bruyère (1645–1696) 17th-century French writer and philosopher
“When people are like each other they tend to like each other.”
Anthony Robbins (1960) Author, actor, professional speaker
Alastair Reynolds (1966) British novelist and astronomer
Source: Short fiction, The Iron Tactician (2016), p. 630