From books and screens

[frombooksandscreens]

I think we ought to live happily ever after. It should be hair-raising.

Howl

Howl’s Moving Castle, Diana Wynne Jones

[frombooksandscreens]

Faith is what brings two people—despite all their imperfections—together. Faith is trusting in what we feel for each other enough to take a chance on a future together. Faith is knowing that there will be challenges ahead, but that we'll get through them somehow. Faith is about believing—even if you've no assurances that you ought to.

Gia

Dare to Love, C. P. Santi

[frombooksandscreens]

Not everyone is made to follow the same road. But that doesn't make you bad—just different.

Uncle Emong

Dare to Love, C.P. Santi

[frombooksandscreens]

You don't get to choose who you fall in love with. You don't get to make a list of all the things you want and choose the best candidate from the list. It's not a job interview, and even then, you don't always get the best. No one's perfect. Not even perfect you. People just are, and you accept them, flaws and all. And love, it never happens the way you plan for it to happen.

Beginner's Guide: Love and Other Chemical Reactions, Six de los Reyes

[frombooksandscreens]

Some things in life just don't make sense. It's like all the confounding factors in the world decided to gang up on you.

Thomas

Beginner's Guide: Love and Other Chemical Reactions, Six de los Reyes

[frombooksandscreens]

Not fighting is not feeling. Not feeling is not being anything. Do you really think you can live like that?

Nero

Beginner's Guide: Love and Other Chemical Reactions, Six de los Reyes

[frombooksandscreens]

Happiness is not measurable. One could consider quality of life as a proxy for comparing levels of happiness, even across one's own timeline, but the scale remains unclear. For what makes a person happy is not one's quality of life, but the moment at which one considers themselves happy.

Kaya

Beginner's Guide: Love and Other Chemical Reactions, Six de los Reyes

[frombooksandscreens]

If it hurts, it hurts. It's okay for your heart to break. That's what makes us human, right? Nothing to be afraid of? Nothing to be ashamed of?

Nero

Beginner's Guide: Love and Other Chemical Reactions, Six de los Reyes

[frombooksandscreens]

Like testicles, the male ego is very sensitive. Please act accordingly.

Nero

Beginner's Guide: Love and Other Chemical Reactions, Six de los Reyes

[frombooksandscreens]

The worst that could happen is rejection and heartbreak, and frankly we deal with that everyday already.

Kaya

Beginner's Guide: Love and Other Chemical Reactions, Six de los Reyes

[frombooksandscreens]

There is nothing wrong with being single. It doesn't really make you any less of a person. Your value is not, in any way dependent on whether or not you are romantically involved with another individual. There are worse things than being single. Like being in a terrible relationship or married to someone that's just wrong for you.

Eugene

Beginner's Guide: Love and Other Chemical Reactions, Six de los Reyes

[frombooksandscreens]

You don't get to save your heart from breaking by pretending you don't have one. That's not how this works. You think you can control everything with your rules but that's not also how this works.

Adrian

Feels Like Summer, Six de los Reyes

[frombooksandscreens]

Everyone needs someone. Especially the ones who think they don't.

Adrian

Feels Like Summer, Six de los Reyes

[frombooksandscreens]

You get so used to having someone, growing up with someone, the moment they’re gone you’re lost. You just don’t know who you are anymore.

Adrian

Feels Like Summer, Six de los Reyes

[frombooksandscreens]

The thing about pain is that sometimes it comes without warning, everywhere and all at once without so much as an introduction.

Jett

Feels Like Summer, Six de los Reyes

[frombooksandscreens]

I’m too busy figuring out how to be yours to fall for anyone else.

Adrian

Feels Like Summer, Six de los Reyes

[frombooksandscreens]

Good or bad, in the end what would have mattered is that we took a chance. And if it didn't work out, then we cut our losses and say goodbye. Goodbye is better than being in limbo.

Jett

Feels Like Summer, Six de los Reyes