“She was beautiful. God I loved her. I just didn’t know how to show it, that’s all.”— Dir. Frank Darabont, amazon.com
“Love, the deadliest of all deadly things: It kills you both when you have it and when you don’t.”— Lauren Oliver, amazon.com
“Unrequited love does not die; it’s only beaten down to a secret place where it hides, curled and wounded. For some unfortunates, it turns bitter and mean, and those who come after pay the price for the hurt done by the one who came before.”— Elle Newmark, amazon.com
“Perhaps the fact that I chased a boy who ripped me to shreds says a lot more about me than it did about him.”— Michelle K., michellekpoems.tumblr.com
“Am I in love? Absolutely. I’m in love with ancient philosophers, foreign painters, classic authors, and musicians who have died long ago. I’m a passionate lover. I fawn over these people. I have given them my heart and my soul. The trouble is, I’m unable to love anyone tangible. I have sacrificed a…”— James Dean, wordsfortheyear.com
“You know, it’s quite a job starting to love somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment, in the very beginning, when you have to jump across a precipice: if you think about it you don’t do it. I know I’ll never jump again.”— Jean-Paul Sartre, amazon.com
“Someone once said that the moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you’ve already stopped loving that person forever.”— Carlos Ruiz Zafon, amazon.com
“How many young women have I watched weep their days away over disinterested men? To all of them, I want to say, Look up. Get a life, because he has.”— Cammie McGovern, amazon.com
“Loving someone is giving them the power to hurt you, but trusting them not to.”— Julianne Moore, goodreads.com
“She was forced to consider the startling fact that the love of her life might not actually be someone with whom she could spend a lifetime.”— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com
“Those are 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
“You are not broken. You can love and be loved, despite what may feel like the eternally brutal nature of the world. Even when you're drowning and so far under, there is always time to reach for someone who will teach you how to breathe again.”— Jessica Park, amazon.com
“I want you to come live with me, and die with me, and everything with me.”— Vladimir Nabokov, amazon.com
“The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.”— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com
“I wish I had done things differently. We were in love once, and we let it get away.”— John Grisham, amazon.com