“And if I had cared about her as I should have, as I thought I did, how could I have let her go?”— John Green, amazon.com
“I think the truth is...you fell for a face and a body and then put the person inside you wanted to find there.”— Aidan Chambers, amazon.com
“He used to love me, and now he's just a stranger who happens to know all my secrets.”— Clementine Von Radics, amazon.com
“I'm afraid I won't meet anyone else I can connect with. I'm scared it'll be just you.”— Sade Andria Zabala, sadeandriazabala.com
“'I care,' he said in a trembling voice. 'I care so much that I do not know how to tell you without it seeming inconsequential compared to how I feel. Even if I am distant at times and seem as if I do not want to be with you, it is only because this scares me, too.'”— Aimee Carter, amazon.com
“30. We emotionally manipulated one another until we thought it was love. 31. Forgive me, I was lonely so I chose you.”— Warsan Shire, youtube.com
“I’d rather not love anyone, he thought. I’d rather have fun. And fun, his good side said to him, you have no fun when you do not love.”— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com
“Which is, I'm an optimist that two people can be together to work out their conflicts. And that commitment, I think, might be what love is, because they both grow from their relationship.”— Garry Shandling, books.google.com
“I would kiss you in the middle of the ocean during a lightning storm cuz I’d rather be left for dead than wondering what thunder sounds like.”— Andrea Gibson, facebook.com
“Loving someone who hates themselves is a special kind of violence. A fight inside the bones. A war within the blood.”— Yrsa Daley Ward, amazon.com
“She was strange and beautiful and those were human qualities that I had never seen Weaved together before. She became terrifying to me, not because I feared who she was, but for the sake of love, I feared what she could do to me.”— Christopher Poindexter, goodreads.com
“Maybe this whole time, I already had the things I’ve been asking others to give me.”— Rudy Francisco, goodreads.com
“My first love was some insignificant boy when it should have been myself.”— Michelle K., michellekpoems.tumblr.com
“Is it possible to love so desperately that life is unbearable? I don’t mean unrequited, I mean being in the love. In the midst of it and desperate. Because knowing it will end, because everything does. End.”— Peter Heller, amazon.com
“I didn’t need you to fix me. I needed you to love me while I fix myself.”— Michelle K., michellekpoems.tumblr.com
“And I need to see you, but I don’t see you, and I need to hear you, but I don’t hear you, and I need to touch you, but I don’t touch you, and I need to think about you, and that is all I do.”— Charles Bukowski, thelovejournals.com