Quote by Jodi Picoult

“When I loved myself enough, I no longer needed things or people to make me feel safe.”

— Kim McMillen

“Is that what love meant? To lose yourself in another person, to the point of giving up part of whom you are?”

— Eve Carter

“I realized I needed my own love more than the people I selflessly gave it to.”

— Alishah Khan

“I was used to being loved. A large, tight-knit family will do that for you. I might have wanted to carve my own path…

— Jo Spain

“When you grow up as I have, a lost girl without any real past, you latch on to the people who seem to love…

— Kristin Hannah

“No matter how much you loved someone, sometimes you had to let them go. Sometimes, a person you loved was not someone who made…

— J.A. Armstrong

“Love can really screw you up before you figure out how to live with it. And once you do? You wonder how the hell…

— Nora Roberts

“Nor did I grasp the capacity of love's absence to destroy, that my lack of love for myself made my own life unbearable. You…

— Mia Fontaine

“You needed love, but not the kind of love most people used and were used up by.”

— Charles Bukowski

“All that mattered in life, that someone loved you even though you had faults.”

— Pepper Phillips

“If you love something, don't let it go, if it struggles, it never wanted to be yours.”

— Aurora Thurman

“was not yet in love, but I was in love with love, and from the very depth of my need hated myself for not…

— Augustine of Hippo