I Didn't Plan On Falling In Love With You

“There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.”

— Sarah Dessen, amazon.com

“True love wasn’t about the amount of time you spent with someone, it was about the quality of the time.”

— Tracy Brogan, amazon.com

“I look at you and a sense of wonder takes me.”

— Homer, amazon.com

“They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com

“For one human being to love another human being: that is perhaps the most difficult task that has been given to us, the ultimate, the final problem and proof, the work for which all other work is merely preparation.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com

“I really don’t know what ‘I love you’ means. I think it means ‘don’t leave me here alone’.”

— Neil Gaiman, amberkoneval.wordpress.com

“I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”

— John Green, amazon.com

“I am furious with you, but I love you very dearly.”

— Vladimir Nabokov, amazon.com

“I don't know what the future holds or anything like that. I don't know if it'll work. But I know that when you find someone that makes you think about the future that way, you have to jump with both feet, and give it a shot.”

— Sabrina Paige, amazon.com

“Any fool can love somebody who’s perfect, somebody who does everything right. But that doesn’t stretch your soul. Your soul only gets stretched when you can still love somebody after they’ve hurt you.”

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips, amazon.com

“Loving you was the last thing I felt really good at.”

— Rudy Francisco, youtube.com

“He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”

— Emily Brontë, amazon.com

“If we'd never met, I think I would have known my life wasn't complete. And I would have wandered the world in search of you, even if I didn't know who I was looking for.”

— Nicholas Sparks, amazon.com

“'But how will I know who my Soulmate is?' Brida felt that this was one of the most important questions she had ever asked in her life. 'By taking risks’ she said to Brida. ‘ By risking failure, disappointment, disillusion, but never ceasing in you search for Love. As long as you keep looking, you wi…”

— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com

“One day you meet someone and for some inexplicable reason, you feel more connected to this stranger than anyone else— closer to them than your closest family.”

— Lang Leav, amazon.com

“People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that’s what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert, amazon.com

“He's made me believe I'm worth love of the liquid kind, you know, the kind that seeps to all my damaged parts.”

— Zandile Funde, amazon.com

“I didn't just love him…I needed him. Not in some desperate "you complete me" sort of way. No, Vincent didn’t make me whole. He improved me. Something about him—something I didn't understand—had a way of amplifying the good in my nature while muting the bad. He was a catalyst for my soul.”

— Angela N. Blount, amazon.com

“True love is finding your soulmate in your best friend”

— Faye Hall, amazon.com

“Real love is looking at someone and knowing that you wouldn’t mind waking up to their bad breath for the next century, and you are fine with them seeing you before you brush your hair and fix your face for the day.”

— K.M. Shea, amazon.com

“Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's beautiful.”

— Milan Kundera, amazon.com

“That’s what happens with your first love. It carves a hole in the muscle and fiber, so that you have no choice but to wear it like a birthmark.”

— Rebecca Tsaros Dickson, thoughtcatalog.com

“First romance, first love, is something so special to all of us, both emotionally and physically, that it touches our lives and enriches them forever.”

— Rosemary Rogers, psychologytoday.com

“You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together.”

— Nicholas Sparks, amazon.com

“I've found out that falling in love doesn't have anything to do with time. It can take a year or an instant. It happens when it's ready to happen.”

— Nora Roberts, amazon.com

“The best love is the kind that weakens the soul, that makes us reach for more. That plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds.”

— Audrey Niffenegger, amazon.com

“You’re the one I want beside me for every little thing—from Tuesday nights after work to Saturday mornings curled up on the couch, from trips to the corner store to vacations across the world, from nights when I startle from bad dreams to afternoons when I come home from a run, glistening with sweat…”

— Marisa Donnelly, thoughtcatalog.com

“You’re the person I want to dive headfirst into life with. When I go out on the weekends, it is you I want shutting down the club with me. When I plan an adventure it is you I want holding the map. When I speculate about the future, I want to see you in every outlandish fantasy I plan for myself.”

— Heidi Priebe, thoughtcatalog.com

“I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I'm in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we're all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has be…”

— John Green, amazon.com