“You cannot convince people to love you. This is an absolute rule. No one will ever give you love because you want him or her to give it. Real love moves freely in both directions. Don’t waste your time on anything else.”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com
“So here’s my question: when you lose the most important person to you in the entire world, where is all the love – love you never even knew you were capable of – supposed to go?”— Ted Michael, amazon.com
“I hope you find someone you can’t live without. I really do. And I hope you never have to know what it’s like to have to try and live without them.”— Kiera Cass, amazon.com
“I knew that what was left of me would always love you, but never in quite the same way.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“I loved her. Not simply, certainly not passively, but clearly, specifically; I loved her…She was kind but would not accept confusion. She was beautifully warm… Her heart was coloured by a deep gentleness; She was true.”— Robert Creeley, thelovejournals.com
“She wants to know if I love her, that’s all anyone wants from anyone else, not love itself but the knowledge that love is there, like new batteries in the flashlight in the emergency kit in the hall closet.”— Jonathan Safran Foer, amazon.com
“I did not love you out of boredom or loneliness or caprice. I loved you because the desire for you was stronger than any happiness.”— Alessandro Baricco, amazon.com
“‘Just because someone desires you, it does not mean that they value you. Read it over. Again. Let those words resonate in your mind.’”— Nayyirah Waheed, goodreads.com
“Are people so unhappy when they love?’ ‘Yes, Christine when they love and are not sure of being loved.”— Gaston Leroux, amazon.com
“You can only give your heart away once, after that, everything else will chase your first love.”— Tarryn Fisher, amazon.com
“Be with someone that requires you to grow, makes you forget your problems, holds your hand, likes to kiss, appreciates art, and adores you.”— Mama Zara, thatkindofwoman.tumblr.com
“When you fall for someone’s personality, everything about them becomes beautiful.”— Unknown, twitter.com
“‘We don’t fit in, you and me,’ he said. ‘We’re both oddities no one knows what to do with. But we fit together.’ He took her hand, pressed her palm to his, then laced their fingers through each other’s. 'We fit.'”— Jennifer Ashley, amazon.com
“I don’t know what they are called, the spaces between seconds – but I think of you always in those intervals.”— Salvador Plascencia, amazon.com
“Why didn’t it happen between us? Why did I fail? Why did you come close enough… and not closer?”— Tennessee Williams, amazon.com
“She didn’t love him and he didn’t love her; she was like an addiction, and what they were doing had a darkness to it, a weight.”— Kim Edwards, amazon.com