“Think of the first time you slept with someone, or the first time you fell in love: that blinding explosion that left you crackling to the fingertips with electricity, initiated and transformed. I tell you that was nothing, nothing at all, beside the power of putting your lives, simply and daily, in…”— Tana French, amazon.com
“Sometimes people walk away from love because it is so beautiful that it terrifies them. Sometimes they leave because the connection shines a bright light on their dark places and they are not ready to work them through. Sometimes they run away because they are not developmentally prepared to merge w…”— Jeff Brown, facebook.com
“You cannot say ‘no’ to the people you love, not often. That’s the secret. And then when you do, it has to sound like a ‘yes’. Or you have to make them say ‘no.’ You have to take time and trouble.”— Mario Puzo, amazon.com
“When we meet someone and fall in love, we have a sense that the whole universe is on our side. And yet if something goes wrong, there is nothing left! How is it possible for the beauty that was there only minutes before to vanish so quickly? Life moves very fast. It rushes from heaven to hell in a m…”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“I think I fell in love with her, a little bit. Isn’t that dumb? But it was like I knew her. Like she was my oldest, dearest friend. The kind of person you can tell anything to, no matter how bad, and they’ll still love you, because they know you. I wanted to go with her. I wanted her to notice me. A…”— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com
“Those are the two things you want to do most when you love somebody: to save them (sometimes from themselves) and to be near them always.”— Francois Lelord, amazon.com
“Watching you walk out of my life does not make me bitter or cynical about love. But rather makes me realize that if I wanted so much to be with the wrong person how beautiful it will be when the right one comes along.”— Unknown, thesilentchild.tumblr.com
“I am doing something I hate for you. This is what it means to be in love.”— Jonathan Safran Foer, amazon.com
“I never want to love someone like that…so much that there would be no room left for myself, so much that I wouldn’t be able to survive if [they] left me.”— Jean Kwok, amazon.com
“I could not tell you if I loved you the first moment I saw you, or if it was the second or third or fourth. But I remember the first moment I looked at you walking toward me and realized that somehow the rest of the world seemed to vanish when I was with you.”— Cassandra Clare, amazon.com
“There’s some people in this world who you can just love and love and love no matter what.”— John Green, amazon.com
“And I love everything on this changing, burning earth, but I am most grateful to you.”— Katherine Catmull, amazon.com
“The purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.”— Kurt Vonnegut Jr., amazon.com
“I can’t tell how I really feel, or whether I’m in love with love, or what…”— Jack Kerouac, amazon.com
“You can never control who you fall in love with, even when you’re in the most sad, confused time of your life. You don’t fall in love with people because they’re fun. It just happens.”— Kirsten Dunst, vogue.it