“I don't think I have ever loved anyone in my life, not really — just needed them, wanted them to love me to possess me — to become such a part of someone that I could lose my frightened self...”— Anne Sexton, amazon.com
“When I saw you first, it took every ounce of me not to kiss you. When I saw you laugh, it took every ounce of me not to love you. And when I saw your soul, it took every ounce of me.”— Atticus, amazon.com
“It’s not the fear of losing them that scares us, it’s that we have given them so many of our pieces that we fear losing ourselves when they are gone.”— Atticus, amazon.com
“Love is diving headfirst into someone else’s confusion and finding that it all makes sense.”— Atticus, amazon.com
“When you love someone… truly love them, friend or lover, you lay your heart open to them. You give them a part of yourself that you give to no one else, and you let them inside a part of you that only they can hurt—you literally hand them the razor with a map of where to cut deepest and most painful…”— Sherrilyn Kenyon, amazon.com
“The most important thing to develop in human beings is a sense of love, and an understanding of unconditional love. I’m not talking about the love towards a specific person, but love in a general sense; for life, for the planet, for purely existing.”— Marina Abramovic, thoughteconomics.com
“You love people. They disappoint you. But sometimes, they don’t. They just keep loving you, right through it all, waiting for you to wake up and appreciate them. To say, ‘I love you. I’ve always loved you back.”— Courtney Maum, amazon.com
“They may not have loved you, but they did change you. They taught you. They grew you.”— Bianca Sparacino, biancasparacino.tumblr.com
“If you’re asking me if I like your company, the answer is yes. If, on the other hand, you’re asking me if I could live without you, the answer is also yes.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“I don’t know how to not love people when they’re hurting. I guess that’s why I keep falling in love with open wounds and then not understanding when we are nothing but blood in a lifeboat.”— Ashe Vernon, latenightcornerstore.com
“Part of love is being helpless, being out of control of your own emotions.”— B.J. Novak,, amazon.com
“Tell me, how can I live without my Husband any longer? This is my first awakening thought each morning, and as I watch the waves of the turbulent lake under our windows I sometimes feel I should like to go under them.”— Mary Todd Lincoln, quoteland.com
“I think the doctors would especially like to keep one in bed. The love of money, is the root of all evil.”— Mary Todd Lincoln, amazon.com
“...with trembling anxiety I had been permitted to watch over and minister to my idolized husband, through an illness and receiving his loving farewell words in return, I could have thanked him for his lifelong - almost; devotion to me & mine, and I could have asked forgiveness, for any inadvertent m…”— Mary Todd Lincoln, amazon.com
“Love...who needed love? As long as she had her books and her friends and an occasional hookup, she was perfectly content.”— Lauren Conrad, amazon.com
“This poem is the poem I am writing because we aren’t speaking, and it is making my heart hurt so bad, that sometimes I can’t make it up off the floor.”— Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz, amazon.com