“If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces – and as it gets older and stronger, it will tear deeper – love her, love her, love her!”— Charles Dickens, amazon.com
“Then the heart of Éowyn changed, or else at last she understood it. And suddenly her winter passed, and the sun shone on her.”— J.R.R Tolkien, amazon.com
“I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days - three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.”— John Keats, amazon.com
“The life so brief, the art so long in the learning, the attempt so hard, the conquest so sharp, the fearful joy that ever slips away so quickly - by all this I mean love, which so sorely astounds my feeling with its wondrous operation, that when I think upon it I scarce know whether I wake or sleep.”— Geoffrey Chaucer, amazon.com
“Well is it said that neither love nor power Admit a rival, even for an hour.”— Geoffrey Chaucer, amazon.com
“You must remember that when you are in love, and try never to place anyone on a pedestal. That way you spare yourself the pain of seeing them tumbling off.”— Lesley Pearse, amazon.com
“...most of the time people use the word love as just another way to show off they're hungry.”— Colum McCann, amazon.com
“How peaceful life would be without love. How safe. How tranquil. And how very dull.”— Umberto Eco, amazon.com
“Some people feel love in their hearts. Some of us feel it all way into our souls. We’re the ones who can’t forget.”— Judith McNaugh, amazon.com
“You said, 'I love you.' Why is it that the most unoriginal thing we can say to one another is still the thing we long to hear? 'I love you' is always a quotation. You did not say it first and neither did I, yet when you say it and when I say it we speak like savages who have found three words and wo…”— Jeanette Winterson, amazon.com
“Do you remember what you said to me once? That you could help me only by loving me? Well, you did love me for a moment; and it helped me. It has always helped me.”— Edith Wharton,, amazon.com
“It’s the ones you love the most who can lift you in an instant, and destroy you without trying.”— Dorothy Koomson, amazon.com
“Do you know how it hurts to touch you knowing that in the morning I’ll still wake up alone?”— Shinji Moon, amazon.com