Settling-for-second-best Quote by Catherine Sanderson

“You will be with you longer than anyone else on the planet, so why not make it a good relationship?”

— Cheryl Richardson

“I was messed up when it came to relationships, not happy with what I told myself I wanted, yet unwilling to take the risk…

— S.H. Kolee

“I faced the real possibility of spending the rest of my life alone, never experiencing great love. But then again, I might not live…

— Denise Grover Swank

“You shouldn't really expect anything out of a relationship, if you aren't willing to put anything in it...”

— José N. Harris

“I guess that's what a relationship is, believing each other, even when it doesn't seem like a good idea.”

— Jason Donnelly

“knowing that I would belong to him for as long as he wanted to keep me. And, as it turned out, even longer than…

— Emily Giffin

“I just don't have a tremendously strong belief that relationships can work. I'm really quite convinced that they don't. And if they do, it's…

— Morrissey

“Relationships are strange. you damn the entire world for something you believed in only to realize that something was nothing.”

— SFathima

“I just did not like to invest myself in a relationship that would soon end.”

— Samantha Young

“Nobody was asking for more than I wanted to give, and all the interactions were short and sweet. If only all relationships could be…

— Sarah Dessen

“...some things, like love, might be worth hoping for. That it was okay to long for it, even in the face of the impossible.”

— Susan May Warren

“The best relationships fade out and you're not even sure when it ended.”

— Derrick C. Brown