being with someone Quotes

“My purpose, my whole life, had been to love him and be with him, to make him happy.”

“When we feel deeply drawn to someone, we cathect them; that is, we invest feelings or emotion in them. That process of investment wherein a loved one becomes important to us is called ‘cathexis’.”

“It is silly, isn’t it, that I would dream of someone else offering to me the acceptance and affirmation I was withholding from myself. This was a moment when the maxim “You can never love anybody if you are unable to love yourself” made clear sense. And I add, “Do not expect to receive the love from someone else you do not give yourself.”

“I love you. I want to be with you. We’ll find a way to make it work.”

“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.”

“I hope you find someone who knows how to love you when you are sad.”

“Always be honest about the way someone makes you feel about yourself.”

“I hate the moments between meeting someone and leaving someone”

“When he texts you, he’s thinking about you. When he calls you, he misses you. When he shows up, he wants you. When he suddenly stops doing all of the above for you, he’s doing it for someone else.”

“Best of all I like being with my mom.”

“When I’m with him, I feel like the hero of a story, of my story.”