18 Of The Most Illuminating Literary Passages On Love, Life, And Romance By Beau Taplin

“There was never going to be an “us” because you wanted to be missed more than you wanted to be loved.”
“There was never going to be an “us” because you wanted to be missed more than you wanted to be loved.”
Western Civilization has a long history of fearing the devil and sometimes even worshipping him. Either way, it almost never ends well.
Did you take Latin and ancient Greek in high school and then never used it again? Yeah, me too.
We walk deliberately into so many of our failures because never trying at all is infinitely easier than admitting that we give a shit.
Don’t ignore your inner voices, but don’t become a victim of your own speculative thoughts, either.
He/she will not stop crying. Nobody can even pinpoint the source of tears, it seems to be about everything. It runs the gamut from ex lover turmoil to just crying because the party ran out of Fireball.
“If we failed the notoriously grueling marriage interview, I would be deported and my fake husband would be imprisoned for at least two years.”
“Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.” –Alphonse de Lamartine
The scene: You’re going to your ex’s wedding. He’s not just any ex, he’s THE ex, the one you thought you were going to spend forever with, at least when you two were walking the halls of your liberal Midwestern college campus.
A home. Love. A relationship that could actually work. No, these are not the things that happen to bad people, to broken people, to people who come from an unconventional home.
If you like someone you talk to them. None of this “well she texted me first so I’m going to put her in purgatory for a couple days” bullshit.