“I didn't mean it. I was just angry at something. I didn't mean I didn't love you.”— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com
“Teach your children not only how to love but how to be loved.”— Michelle K., michellekpoems.tumblr.com
“You've got to be strong enough for love. It's very easy to be cool and cynical. It's very difficult to just let yourself go and be in love. You've got to be strong enough for that.”— Noel Gallagher, rollingstone.com
“This step forward (at first right against the will of the men who are left behind) will transform the experiences of love, which is now full of error, alter it root and branch, reshape it into a relation between two human beings and no longer between man and woman. And this more human form of love (…”— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com
“To love is also good, for love is hard. Love between one person and another: that is perhaps the hardest thing it is laid on us to do, the utmost, the ultimate trial and test, the work for which all other work is just preparation. For this reason young people, who are beginners in everything, do not…”— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com
“Every true love and friendship is a story of unexpected transformation. If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we haven't loved enough.”— Elif Shafak, amazon.com
“I had no illusions about love anymore. It came, it went, it left casualties or it didn't. People weren't meant to be together forever, regardless of what the songs say.”— Sarah Dessen, amazon.com
“Not a day passes that I do not see ourselves, you and me, as we were when we met first. Every day of my life I see that.”— James Joyce, amazon.com
“Don't turn away...Listen! I've dropped out of their heart like a little sparrow fallen from its nest. So gather me up, dear, fold me to your heart—and you'll see how nice I can be.”— Jean-Paul Sartre, amazon.com
“You are so lucky to be best friends. Work hard at that. And respect that. Be patient. You don’t always have to be right. Even if you are, it doesn’t fucking matter anyway. Fight for it everyday. I wish I had.”— Rashida Jones, Celeste, amazon.com
“You can love somebody and it can change your life but it doesn’t mean that you’re necessarily right to be together forever, but that love will change your life forever. And that’s okay.”— Rashida Jones, ew.com