“Think of the first time you slept with someone, or the first time you fell in love: that blinding explosion that left you crackling to the fingertips with electricity, initiated and transformed. I tell you that was nothing, nothing at all, beside the power of putting your lives, simply and daily, in…”— Tana French, amazon.com
“I turn and I slowly walk away and I don’t look back. It has always been a fault of mine, but it is the way I am. I never look back. Never.”— James Frey, amazon.com
“Love is that condition in the human spirit so profound that it allows me to survive, and better than that, to thrive with passion, compassion, and style.”— Maya Angelou, en.wikiquote.org
“If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain.”— Emily Dickinson, amazon.com
“Oh, I wouldn't say love always makes you happy. Sometimes it makes you incredibly sad.”— Rick Riordan, amazon.com
“If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter...”— Markus Zusak, amazon.com
“I love thee not as something private and personal, which is your own, but as something universal and worthy of love which I have found.”— Henry David Thoreau, amazon.com
“...I thought about how love was always the thing that did that—smashed into you, left you raw. The deeper you loved, the deeper it hurt.”— Wally Lamb, amazon.com
“While we loved each other we didn’t need words to make ourselves understood. But people don’t love forever. A time came when I should have found the words to keep her with me—only I couldn’t.”— Albert Camus, amazon.com
“...love is a verb. Love — the feeling — is a fruit of love, the verb. So love...Serve...Sacrifice. Listen...Empathize. Appreciate. Affirm...”— Stephen R Covey, amazon.com
“Leave him in-between the pages. Leave him hanging off the last sentence of the last poem's last stanza. Leave him; you deserve a good night's sleep.”— Lora Mathis, loramathis.com
“The truth is, I wished for the same thing I always do, when I let myself wish at all. Him.”— Abby McDonald, amazon.com
“And I can’t help but to run my fingers down your spine like you are my favorite book. But I still cannot read you, you are your own language. Your pages are tired and torn, but I want you, I want it all.”— Michelle K., michellekpoems.tumblr.com
“...you were my favorite poem and I'd read you every night knowing I might never understand every word but that's okay – ‘cause the lines of you were the closest thing to holy I'd ever heard.”— Andrea Gibson, youtube.com
“You draw constellations in my freckles. I mean you ask me not to fall in love with you and then you go write poems with your tongue and draw constellations in my freckles.”— Clementine Von Radics, clementinepoetry.us
“I kiss him and say: There is something in me cannot be healed. There is something in me needs breaking open.”— Clementine Von Radics, clementinepoetry.us