"The beautiful thing is, music can be like a time machine. One song - the lyrics, the melody, the mood - can take you back to a moment in time like nothing else can."

— Lisa Schroeder, Chasing Brooklyn (via simply-quotes)

"People always fall in love with the most perfect aspects of each other’s personalities. Who wouldn’t? Anybody can love the most wonderful parts of another person. But that’s not the clever trick. The really clever trick is this: Can you accept the flaws? Can you look at your partner’s faults honestly and say, ‘I can work around that. I can make something out of it.’? Because the good stuff is always going to be there, and it’s always going to pretty and sparkly, but the crap underneath can ruin you."

— Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage (via simply-quotes)

"Distance means so little when you love someone this much."

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"The few hours I spend with you are worth the thousand hours I spend without you."

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"Missing someone gets easier everyday because even though you are one day further from the last time you saw them, you are one day closer to the next time you will."

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"I’d rather be missing you than loving someone else."

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"When I sleep, I dream of you, and when I wake, I long to hold you in my arms. If anything, our time apart has only made me more certain that I want to spend my nights by your side, and my days with your heart."

— Nicholas Sparks, Nights In Rodanthe (via simply-quotes)

"When people care about each other, they always find a way to make it work."

— Nicholas Sparks, True Believer (via simply-quotes)

"Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can’t stand the thought of them changing? Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can’t see clearly?"

— Jodi Picoult, Vanishing Acts (via simply-quotes)