Betty Smith Quotes

I did not need to know if he could love me. I needed to know if he could need me.

Women need to feel loved and men need to feel needed.

I need you,ʺ said Lissa. ʺI hear that from women a lot,ʺ said Adrian.

No one will ever love you as much as I do. Why isn't love enough?

Men are not our problem; it's what we are trying to get from them that messes us up. We use guys like mirrors to see if we're valuable.

He sometimes wondered if she had become involved with him just so that she could cry in someone's arms. Maybe she can't cry alone, and that's why she needs me.

We don't want women to really know men, because then they'll find out how much we need them.

All people have a natural desire to be needed, to have their importance to others tangibly confirmed.

Our most basic emotional need is not to fall in love but to be genuinely loved by another, to know a love that grows out of reason and choice, not instinct. I need to be loved by someone who chooses to love me, who sees in me something worth loving.

If you allow your rhythm to be interrupted, you'll create a void. Then to replace what you give up, you'll start to expect and need more from your partner.

I wish I were worthy of his love. (Any love.)I should tell him to run. But I can't. I need him.

He had found my worst weakness: I was one of those people who was desperate to be needed, to matter to someone.

Don't correct me, you don't have any rights over me." "What kind of life is this? So I sit at home , entirely dependent on this man, and then it turns out his heart was never with me. How is it possible to force someone to love me?

You want to be loved because you do not love; but the moment you love, it is finished, you are no longer inquiring whether or not somebody loves you.

I needed, I needed...you." "Don't tell me you need me." "But I can't help it. I do

You don't have to love me. Just don't leave me," he said against my leg

You were my last chance' she's said but don't all women say that? - But can it be by 'last chance' she doesn't mean mere marriage but some profoundly sad realization of something in me she really needs to go on living, at least that impression coming across anyway on the force of all the gloom we've shared -

…I think,' concluded Anne, hitting on a very vital truth, 'that we always love best the people who need us.

I know that sometimes people fake on each other out of genuine motives to hold onto the object of their tenderest feelings. They see themselves as so inadequate that they feel forced to wear a mask in order to continuously impress the other. I do not want to "hold" you, I want you to "stay" out of your own need for me.

... we always love best the people who need us.

Now and then it's clear to me, that need is love, and love is need.

Being needed was a handy trick. It could fill you up so full you never even noticed all the places that were empty.

Is it perhaps the one necessity of love, that it be needed? And the one great human tragedy that it so rarely is?

Just the fact that you need me to prove I love you is probably a clue it isn’t working

Being attached to someone is not about the other person. It is about your own sense of inadequacy.