“Confused as I felt about him, he was my escape, my reminder that there was another world I could join.”— Tracy Chevalier, amazon.com
“I love the way her eyes spark when we're talking or when she's telling me something she wants me to know, the way she mouths the words to herself when she's reading and concentrating, the way she looks at me as if there's only me, as if she can see past the flesh and bone and bullshit right into me…”— Jennifer Niven, amazon.com
“I want to live in the craters of his dark side my body fitting in the curvature of his wound.”— Amy Black, Roger H. Brightley, amazon.com
“There I was, way off my ambitions, getting deeper in love every minute.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“I stopped looking for someone to love me. I became that person instead.”— Rudy Francisco, twitter.com
“Honestly, I don't need someone who sees the good in me. I need someone who sees the bad in me and still wants me.”— Unknown, twitter.com
“I used to want to be consumed in love; to be beaten up, whole. The love that I want now is thick. But I've got to be able to move in it.”— Yrsa Daley Ward, twitter.com
“I want to get to know you once for all, and I want you to know me. And then say good-bye. I believe it's always best to get to know people just before leaving them. I've noticed how you've been looking at me. There has been a continual look of expectation in your eyes, and I can't endure that. That'…”— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, amazon.com
“You like someone who can't like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot.”— John Green, David Levithan, amazon.com
“Remember, we're madly in love, so it's all right to kiss me anytime you feel like it.”— Suzanne Collins, amazon.com
“You cannot remove my scars or rewrite the past that haunts me. Just hold me tight and tell me everything is going to be okay.”— Michael Faudet, twitter.com
“I think you know you’ve found someone special when you meet them for the first time, and it feels like you’re just picking up where you left off. You kind of look at them and think ‘Where the hell did you come from? Where the hell have you been?’”— Caitlyn Siehl, alonesomes.tumblr.com
“Sometimes when you meet someone, there's a click. I don't believe in love at first sight, but I believe in that click.”— Ann Aguirre, amazon.com
“All at once we were madly, clumsily, shamelessly, agonizingly in love with each other; hopelessly, I should add...”— Vladimir Nabokov, amazon.com