“We tiptoed around each other like heartbreaking new friends.”

“We went around without looking for each other, but knowing we went around to find each other.”

Julio Cortázar book Hopscotch

“Sometimes it’s heartbreaking to see your siblings as the people they’ve become. Maybe that’s why we all stay away from each other as a matter of course.”

Jonathan Tropper (1970) American writer

“There no longer seems to be the fear of retribution, we are empowering each other. We are encouraging each other to change business models, to try new ventures. We are banding together to support each other, to give each other advice, to change our existing culture. I believe that we are on the verge of creating a new antitype.”

Gwyneth Paltrow (1972) American actress, singer, and food writer

“You always feel like you are the only one in the world, like everyone else is crazy for each other, but it's not true. Generally, people don't like each other very much. And that goes for friends, too.”

Miranda July (1974) American performance artist, musician and writer

“We differ widely from each other; do we not, as circumstances change around us, moulding us like slaves to their will — do we not differ yet more from ourselves?”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist

“we are drawn to each other like drops of water, like the planets we repulse each other like magnets, like the color of our skin.”

Tite Kubo (1977) Japanese manga artist

“A part of us stayed like that: fearful of the world around us, and-no matter how much we despised ourselves for it-unable quite to let each other go.”

Kazuo Ishiguro book Never Let Me Go

“You're my flame in the dark. We chase away the shadows around each other.”

Richelle Mead book The Indigo Spell

“I don’t get why they call it heartbreak. It feels like every other bone in my body is broken too. ”

Jared Leto (1971) American actor and musician