“I want every piece of me to crash into every piece of you, I swear to god that’s how they make stars.”— Mary Lambert, itunes.apple.com
“I look at you and see all the ways a soul can bruise, and I wish I could sink my hands into your flesh and light lanterns along your spine so you know there’s nothing but light when I see you.”— Shinji Moon, amazon.com
“I couldn’t see your face. I couldn’t see us together anyplace. I thought of wanting more and having less than before, diminished by desire gone needy, weedy, and gone out too deep to go home (when the world used to be home).”— Marilyn Hacker, 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
“Code: People should be less cynical about love.Message: Give up your cynicism for me.”— Alain de Botton, amazon.com
“Because feeling love does make you feel superior. Until you find out you aren’t loved back.”— Kaui Hart Hemmings, amazon.com
“I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can’t love and do nothing.”— Graham Greene, amazon.com
“A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“To me, a man is someone who is brave enough to love, and let himself be loved.”— Louis Sachar, amazon.com
“The problem with love these days is that society has taught the human race to stare at people with their eyes rather than their souls.”— Christopher Pointdexter, inspirationinpictures.com
“We can’t help who we love. Love isn’t logical, or even our choice. Love chooses us.”— Susane Colasanti, amazon.com
“Here is the truth: It is hard to be in love with someone who is in love someone else. I don’t know how to turn that into poetry.”— Clementine Von Radics, amazon.com
“She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love. Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.”— William Faulkner, amazon.com
“You loved a man who treated you like absinthe, half poison and half god.”— Clementine Von Radics, amazon.com