“All I do when we're apart is think about you, and all I do when we're together is panic. And because I'm so out of control, I can't help myself. I'm not even mine anymore, I'm yours, and if you decide that you don't want me? How could you want me like I want you?”— Rainbow Rowell, amazon.com
“There are two kinds of love…in the safe kind you look for someone who’s exactly like you. It’s what most folks settle for. But then there’s the other kind of love. Everyone’s born with a ragged edge, and some folks crave that piece that’s a perfect fit. You’ll search for it forever, if you have to.…”— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com
“Loving me will not be easy. It will be war. You will hold the gun and I will hand you the bullets. So breathe, and embrace the beauty of the massacre that lies ahead.”— Robert M. Drake, amazon.com
“The kind of love letters I write are the ones you read in bed, stretched out under the sheets with one hand between your legs.”— Michael Faudet, twitter.com
“I can't tell how I really feel, or whether I'm in love with love, or what...”— Jack Kerouac, amazon.com
“I know you’ll think this is crazy, but all I want to do is hold you, and I think that if you’ll let me do that just for a few seconds, I can walk away, and never speak to you again.”— David Guterson, amazon.com
“Having someone who is constant isn’t such a bad thing. In fact, it can be rare.”— Jodi Lynn Anderson, quotes.blognook.com
“Neither of us is happy but neither of us wants to leave so we keep breaking one another and calling it love.”— Rupi Kaur, amazon.com
“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep…”— Pablo Neruda, amazon.com
“Forgive yourself for the things that turned you into a ghost. Let me watch you love yourself solid again.”— Caitlyn Siehl, amazon.com
“We loved like we were trying to make up for lost time. Every touch an apology, an ‘I’m sorry I haven’t been with you every day since elementary school.’”— Caitlyn Siehl, amazon.com
“There are few people whom I really love and still fewer of whom I think well.”— Jane Austen, amazon.com
“When we pass by another person without telling them we love them it’s cruel and wrong and we all know this.”— Dave Eggers, amazon.com
“Sometimes it was hard to express how much you loved someone. You said the words, but you could never quite capture the depth of it. You could never quite hold someone tightly enough.”— Diane Chamberlain, amazon.com
“I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change…often.”— Anaïs Nin, the-goodsin.tumblr.com
“I love you. I worry about you. I wonder whether I tell you enough how I love you and want you and need you and how I am diminished … when you are not with me and how I am multiplied when you are here.”— Pat Frank, amazon.com