Ted Michael Quotes

I am a relationship phoenix: I crash and burn and then I rise and start again.

— Ted Michael

“Love is terrifying and hard and awful but it's also amazing and beautiful, and there's something about us, as humans, that wants that perfect relationship even though we know it's probably unattainable, and even if we do manage to get it, holding on to t, helping it grow into something that will last a lifetime, well ... it's daunting in its impossibility.”

— Ted Michael

“Long distance sucks, but if you love someone, don't you at least want to try?”

— Ted Michael

“Just because two people don't wind up spending their entire lives together doesn't mean their relationship was a failure.”

— Ted Michael

How can you so desperately miss something you never had in the first place?

— Ted Michael

“She wants to be friends. But what does that mean? Were we ever really friends? Friends don't stay up talking on the phone Every Single Night about Stupid Lit le Things and Most Important Things until it's light outside. Friends don't tell each other their most secret secrets. Friends don't hook up. Friends don't ache for each other. They just don't.”

— Ted Michael

“I swear off dating until someone new and amazing sweeps me off my feet and makes me forget all the hard parts of falling in love.”

— Ted Michael

“Because love, no matter how tragic, is not an ending. It is a test and a textbook; it is a map to undiscovered places and a lexicon of languages yet to be spoken.
Love.
Really, it is a beginning.”

— Ted Michael

“But that's the thing about best friends-you're allowed to sound pathetic because they love you unconditionally.”

— Ted Michael

“You're never going to be strong by making someone else weak.”

— Ted Michael

“Sometimes, the truth comes out in ways you wish it didn't; all you can do is hope that someday you will be forgiven, that the blemish will be erased from the permanent record known as your soul.”

— Ted Michael

“Why are the only happy endings the ones where the couples get together?" I ask. "Can't they just be friends? Can't that be a happy ending too?”

— Ted Michael

“I have always known there is a difference between loneliness and aloneness. I am alone, but my father is lonely. And if I had to choose one, I would rather be alone.”

— Ted Michael