“I want a doomed love. I want streets at night, wind and rain, no one wondering where I am.”— Michael Cunningham, amazon.com
“All I want is someone decent. You know? Kind. Good. Like in all those love stories I’m such an expert on. It can’t just be fiction. It can’t. Those guys are out there, I know it. I just can’t find them.”— Sarah Dessen, amazon.com
“But what happens when you don't find that right person? Do you just spend the rest of your life in a relationship where the conversation isn't great, everything isn't perfect, but it is nice and sweet?”— Miranda Kenneally, amazon.com
“I cannot let you burn me up, nor can I resist you. No mere human can stand in a fire and not be consumed.”— A.S. Byatt, amazon.com
“Well, I think that when you have a connection with someone, it never really goes away, you know? You snap back to being important to each other because you still are.”— Nick Jones, Alex Vause, Laura Prepon, imdb.com
“I love being horribly straightforward. I love sending reckless text messages (because how reckless can a form of digitized communication be?) and telling people I love them and telling people they are absolutely magical humans and I cannot believe they really exist. I love saying, Kiss me harder, an…”— Rachel C. Lewis, thoughtcatalog.com
“Some will love you for who you are; others will love the mask you wear.”— Garrett Nickelsen, amazon.com
“But love was always something heavy for me. Something I had to carry.”— Benjamin Alire Sáenz, amazon.com
“You don't let go of a bad relationship because you stop caring about them. You let go because you start caring about yourself.”— Charles Orlando, twitter.com
“Both. I want to stay. I want to leave. I am three oceans away from my soul.”— Nayyirah Waheed, amazon.com
“Her beauty drowned me. As I sat in front of her I felt that I would do anything mad for her, anything she asked of me. She was color, brilliance, strangeness.”— Anaïs Nin, amazon.com
“My sister told me a soul mate is not the person who makes you the happiest but the one who makes you feel the most, who conducts your heart to bang the loudest, who can drag you giggling with forgiveness from the cellar they locked you in. It has always been you.”— Sierra Demulder, sierrademulder.tumblr.com
“But I love her. That’s the funny part of it. I love them all, and they don’t give a hoot about me.”— Madeleine L'Engle, amazon.com
“She loved him because he had brought her back to life. She had been like a caterpillar in a cocoon, and he had drawn her out and shown her that she was a butterfly.”— Ken Follett, amazon.com