“Love, I am learning, is too big to just be about what I get out of it.”— Chrissy Stockton, amazon.com
“Love is doing a kindness for someone else, not expecting to receive anything in return...”— Sylvain Reynard, amazon.com
“...most of the time people use the word love as just another way to show off they're hungry.”— Colum McCann, amazon.com
“...it’s better to live like a flame...to know a man and love him, even if he can’t be yours, than never to love at all.”— Eloisa James, amazon.com
“I wonder why we always deny love. I remember in middle school, if you were accused of the crime of loving, you screamed denials constantly and stopped ever even looking at the boy you were accused of liking. The boys could destroy each other by yodeling, "An-drew lo-oves Jen-nie," and both Andrew an…”— Caroline B. Cooney, amazon.com
“The only obsession everyone wants: 'love.' People think that in falling in love they make themselves whole? The Platonic union of souls? I think otherwise. I think you're whole before you begin. And the love fractures you. You're whole, and then you're cracked open.”— Philip Roth, amazon.com
“And in the end, we were all just humans, drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.”— Christopher Poindexter, instagram.com
“Love means holding on to someone just as hard as you can because if you don't, one blink and they might disappear forever.”— Ellen Hopkins, amazon.com
“I want to love you without clutching, appreciate you without judging join you without invading, invite you without demanding, leave you without guilt, criticize you without blaming, and help you without insulting. If I can have the same from you, then we can truly meet and enrich each other.”— Virginia Satir, en.wikiquote.org
“If you believe in love, you’re setting yourself up to be disappointed.”— Candace Bushnell,, amazon.com
“What do I know about love? Not much-that’s the safe answer. Even when I think I have a grasp on it, something comes along to make me realize I don’t know anything at all. It’s just a concept to me. It’s the thing that all the songs are written about, the thing that makes smart people act stupidly.”— David Levithan, amazon.com
“Not all love is gentle. Sometimes it’s gritty and dirty and possessive, sometimes it’s not supposed to be careful or soft at all. Sometimes it feels like teeth.”— Azra T., 5000letters.tumblr.com
“Love isn’t soft, like those poets say. Love has teeth which bite and the wounds never close.”— Stephen King, amazon.com