I Didn't Plan On Falling In Love With You

“Love is a condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”

— Robert Heinlein, amazon.com

“And love is needing someone. Love is putting up with someone's bad qualities because they somehow complete you.”

— Sarah Dessen, amazon.com

“Maybe it was the way he said, ‘I’d rather spend my summer with you than any other girl.’ Maybe it was how being around him made me forget the brace and the wounds, made me feel whole and unbroken.”

— Natalie Lindeman, nytimes.com

“For the two of us, home isn’t a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.”

— Stephanie Perkins, amazon.com

“I no longer believed in the idea of soul mates, or love at first sight. But I was beginning to believe that a very few times in your life, if you were lucky, you might meet someone who was exactly right for you. Not because he was perfect, or because you were, but because your combined flaws were ar…”

— Lisa Kleypas, amazon.com

“Because I love you truly, because you love me, too. My very greatest happiness is sharing life with you.”

— Minna Thomas Antrim, amazon.com

“Listen, I love you. You make my world. And I’m here for you now, and forever. I’m here.”

— Pat Pace, thoughtcatalog.com

“I’m not sure about what the future holds for me but I’m sure I want you in it.”

— Rania Naim, thoughtcatalog.com

“Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get–only with what you are expecting to give–which is everything.”

— Katharine Hepburn, amazon.com

“I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.”

— Charles Dickens, amazon.com

“Love is a choice as much as it is magic. Magic comes in moments, but choices stretch out over time. We make them new each morning.”

— Jamie Tworkowski, amazon.com

“Suddenly I wanted to go over and hug her, for no other reason than I loved her.”

— Junot Dìaz, amazon.com

“We were together. I forget the rest.”

— Walt Whitman, amazon.com

“I've never had a moment's doubt. I love you. I believe in you completely. You are my dearest one. My reason for life.”

— Ian McEwan, amazon.com

“Maybe love was meant to save us from ourselves.”

— R.M Drake, rmdrk.bigcartel.com

“Sometimes I wonder how you put up with me. Then I remember, oh, I put up with you. So we're even.”

— someecards, someecards.com

“Love came when you weren't looking, except in the case of millions who found mates on Match.com, but, hey. It sounded good.”

— Kristan Higgins, amazon.com

“We’re all seeking that special person who is right for us...And it isn’t until you finally run up against your deepest demons, your unsolvable problems—the ones that make you truly who you are—that we’re ready to find a lifelong mate. Only then do you finally know what you’re looking for. You’re loo…”

— Galway Kinnell, thoughtcatalog.com

“I believe in true love, you know? I don't believe that everybody gets to keep their eyes or not get sick or whatever, but everybody should have true love, and it should last at least as long as your life does.”

— John Green, Isaac, amazon.com

“Find someone. Fall in love, Give your soul. Lose your soul, Lose that love. Find someone else.”

— Allen Epley, thelifeandtimes.bandcamp.com

“and as she walked away I finally understood the most courageous thing to do...was to let another person love you.”

— R. M. Drake, rmdrk.bigcartel.com

“I love you, I'll never stop.”

— Ann Brashares, amazon.com

“But the you who are tonight is the same you I was in love with yesterday, the same you I'll be in love with tomorrow.”

— Gayle Forman, amazon.com

“So if I asked you about art you could give me the skinny on every art book ever written... Michelangelo? You know a lot about him I bet. Life's work, criticisms, political aspirations. But you couldn't tell me what it smells like in the Sistine Chapel. You've never stood there and looked up at that…”

— Robin Williams, amazon.com

“We are born in twos and we are searching, searching for the other piece that other person to guide us home.”

— R. M. Drake, amazon.com