“I love you, really. You know I love you. I've never loved any one else the way I love you.”— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com
“I want to talk about what happened without mentioning how much it hurt. There has to be a way. To care for the wounds without reopening them. To name the pain without inviting it back into me.”— Lora Mathis, loramathis.com
“Forgive my fingers for when they find your body they will lose themselves.”— Tyler Knott Gregson, tylerknott.com
“...when I kissed her and saw that her eyes were shut. I kissed both her shut eyes. I thought she was probably a little crazy. It was all right if she was. I did not care what I was getting into.”— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com
“I can't say how every time I ever put my arms around you I felt that I was home.”— Ernest Hemingway, nytimes.com
“I had been sad without any good reason. I am after all the most inconsistent person I know, and if I did not love you once and for all, I would love you anyway simply for being unafraid of this inconsistency.”— Franz Kafka, amazon.com
“But I do adore you — every part of you from heel to hair. Never will you shake me off, try as you may.”— Virginia Woolf, amazon.com
“...you don't know the first thing about love. Love isn't about taking what you want; it's about wanting happiness for the one you love.”— Terry Goodkind, amazon.com
“I have built a home for you in my heart; just know the door may not always be open, but it will always be unlocked.”— Michelle K., michellekpoems.tumblr.com
“Except I think it feels more like an empty stomach than a broken heart. An aching hollowness that food can't cure. You know. You've felt it yourself, I bet. You hurt all the time, you're restless, you can't think straight, you sort of wish you were dead but what you really want is for everything to…”— Richard Laymon, amazon.com
“I've never forgotten him. Dare I say I miss him? I do. I miss him. I still see him in my dreams. They are nightmares mostly, but nightmares tinged with love. Such is the strangeness of the human heart. I still cannot understand how he could abandon me so unceremoniously, without any sort of goodbye,…”— Yann Martel, amazon.com
“Everytime I see...or hear her voice, or hear her thunder feet approaching I am so truly happy and I know how lucky we are to be happy that way, and never to be bored alone together.”— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com
“Some day I'll probably love other women - or maybe there'll never be anything but you.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“i wish you love. simply and for no other reason. but because you deserve it.”— Nayyirah Waheed, twitter.com
“Let's lie very still and quiet and hold each other and not think at all.”— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com
“I love you in waves, and lately, every day has been a hurricane.”— Amanda Helm, amandaspoetry.tumblr.com
“oh god it’s wonderful to get out of bed and drink too much coffee and smoke too many cigarettes and love you so much”— Frank O'Hara, amazon.com