“There comes a point when you just love someone. Not because they're good, or bad, or anything really. You just love them. It doesn't mean you'll be together forever. It doesn't mean you won't hurt each other. It just mean you love them. Sometimes in spite of who they are, and sometimes because of wh…”— Laurell K. Hamilton, amazon.com
“Love me, because love doesn't exist, and I have tried everything that does.”— Jonathan Safran Foer, amazon.com
“Someone has to leave first. This is a very old story. There is no other version of this story.”— Richard Siken, amazon.com
“It was strange, really. A couple months ago, I had thought I couldn't live without him. Apparently I could.”— Gabrielle Zevin, amazon.com
“'Well, that's the thing,' she said, ‘your first love isn’t the first person you give your heart to— it’s the first one who breaks it.'”— Lang Leav, amazon.com
“What was it like to love him? Asked Gratitude. It was like being exhumed, I answered, and brought to life in a flash of brilliance. What was it like to be loved in return? Asked Joy. It was like being seen after a perpetual darkness, I replied. To be heard after a lifetime of silence. What was it li…”— Lang Leav, amazon.com
“I don’t know how you are so familiar to me—or why it feels less like I am getting to know you and more as though I am remembering who you are. How every smile, every whisper brings me closer to the impossible conclusion that I have known you before, I have loved you before—in another time, a differe…”— Lang Leav, amazon.com
“fit in here, in my palm, in my shadow, don’t be bigger than my idea of you, don’t be more beautiful than i can accept, don’t be more human than i am willing to allow you to be and be quiet, you’re too loud, even your un-belonging is loud. quiet your dreams, your voice, your hair, quiet your skin, qu…”— Warsan Shire, theodysseyonline.com
“She writes things with her movements that I for the life of me could never write with a pen.”— Christopher Poindexter, goodreads.com
“You are a constellation And I’ve owned a telescope since the day I was born”— Rudy Francisco, rudyfrancisco.tumblr.com
“It was a question I had worn on my lips for days—like a loose thread on my favorite sweater I couldn't resist pulling—despite knowing it could all unravel around me. "Do you love me?" I ask. In your hesitation I found my answer.”— Lang Leav, amazon.com
“When I feel myself falling out of love with you, I turn the record of your laughter over, reposition the needle. I dust the dirty living room of your affection.”— Sierra Demulder, sierrademulder.tumblr.com
“I'm so sorry that I wasted your time because you really do mean a lot to me and I hope you have a very nice life because I really think you deserve it. I really do. I hope you do, too. Okay, then. Goodbye.”— Stephen Chbosky, amazon.com
“You must not reduce yourself to a puddle just because the person you like is afraid to swim and you are a fierce sea to them; because there will be someone who was born with love of the waves within their blood, and they will look at you with fear and respect.”— T.B. LaBerge, tblaberge.tumblr.com
“She's familiar. My only familiar thing in a world of inconsistency and confusion.”— Colleen Hoover, amazon.com
“It's sad isn't it? I once thought worlds of you and now you're just another lesson.”— Beau Taplin, afadthatlastsforever.tumblr.com
“but she loves like that, with her heart on her sleeve and the sea in her eyes... and it's impossible to change that.”— R. M. Drake, twitter.com