“When you’re in love you don’t have to do a damn thing. You can just be. You can just stay quiet in the world. You don’t have to move an inch.”— Charles Baxter, amazon.com
“It’s such a liability to love another person… it’s like playing catch with grenades.”— Janet Fitch, amazon.com
“I will find that special person who is wrong for me in just the right way.Let our scars fall in love.”— Andrew Boyd, amazon.com
“When someone’s been gone a long time, at first you save up all the things you want to tell them. You try to keep track of everything in your head. But it’s like trying to hold on to a fistful of sand: all the little bits slip out of your hands, and then you’re just clutching air and grit.”— Jenny Han, amazon.com
“The chaos in me is the chaos in you. Like the love in you is the love in me. So maybe we’re both a little crazy. Enough to believe we’re found where dreams are born and beneath our faults remain a science, where you and I will run away and leave nothing behind.”— R. M. Drake, goodreads.com
“At first I could not meet his eyes. When I did it was like sitting close to a fire that suddenly blazes up.”— Tracy Chevalier, amazon.com
“I wanted to tell you that wherever I am, whatever happens, I’ll always think of you, and the time we spent together, as my happiest time. I’d do it all over again, if I had the choice. No regrets.”— Cynthia Hand, amazon.com
“love stutters when it gets nervous. love trips over its own shoe laces. love is clumsy. and my heart refuses to wear a helmet.”— Rudy Francisco, rudyfrancisco.tumblr.com
“I hope you find the kind of love where a single touch can calm your tormented soul.”— Nikita Gill, meanwhilepoetry.tumblr.com
“Sure I loved him - too much. And he loved me, only not enough. I just want someone who thinks I’m number one in his life. I’m not willing to accept emotional scraps anymore.”— Amy Tan, amazon.com
“If he truly loves you, he will love you when you are an ocean breeze, but also when you are a summer storm. You were not made to be loved in parts, you were meant to be loved as a whole.”— Nikita Gill, meanwhilepoetry.tumblr.com
“The first time I heard my name in your mouth, the ground felt like a language I haven’t spoken in years. I forgot everything I knew about gravity.”— Rudy Francisco, rudyfrancisco.tumblr.com
“Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.”— Gloria Steinem, elle.com