“I want to talk with you forever. I remember every word you’ve ever said to me. If only I could visit you as a foreigner goes into a new country, learn the language of you, wander past all borders into every private and secret place, I would stay forever. I would become a citizen of you. You would sa…”— Lisa Kleypas, amazon.com
“You know when sometimes you meet someone so beautiful — and then you actually talk to them and five minutes later they're as dull as a brick; but then there's other people. And you meet them and you think, "Not bad, they're okay," and when you get to know them...their face just, sort of, becomes the…”— Tom MacRae, Amy Pond, Karen Gillan, amazon.com
“She knew me better than anyone else in the world. And still wanted to have lunch with me.”— Julian Barnes, amazon.com
“When you first fall in love, it's supposed to be awful. Awful, uncertain, scary, wonderful, confusing, all at once. That's how you know it's real. You have to care deeply. Passionately. That hurts.”— Nancy Werlin, amazon.com
“She looks like the real thing, She tastes like the real thing, My fake plastic love.”— Thom Yorke, open.spotify.com
“I wonder why we always deny love. I remember in middle school, if you were accused of the crime of loving, you screamed denials constantly and stopped ever even looking at the boy you were accused of liking. The boys could destroy each other by yodeling, "An-drew lo-oves Jen-nie," and both Andrew an…”— Caroline B. Cooney, amazon.com
“...our job is to love people. When it hurts. When it's awkward. When it's uncool and embarrassing. Our job is to stand together, to carry the burdens of one another and to meet each other in our questions.”— Jamie Tworkowski, twloha.com
“The only obsession everyone wants: 'love.' People think that in falling in love they make themselves whole? The Platonic union of souls? I think otherwise. I think you're whole before you begin. And the love fractures you. You're whole, and then you're cracked open.”— Philip Roth, amazon.com
“Maybe love is like rain. Sometimes gentle, sometimes torrential, flooding, eroding, joyful, steady, filling the earth, collecting in underground springs. When it rains, when we love, life grows.”— Carol Gilligan, amazon.com
“And in the end, we were all just humans, drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.”— Christopher Poindexter, instagram.com
“I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it — to be fed so much love I couldn’t take any more. Just once.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“He loved her, of course, but better than that, he chose her, day after day. Choice: that was the thing.”— Sherman Alexie, amazon.com
“Do not swear by the moon, for she changes constantly. then your love would also change.”— William Shakespeare, amazon.com
“I want somebody with a sharp intellect and a heart from hell. somebody with eyes like starfire and a mouth with a kiss like a bottomless well. but mostly I just want someone who will love me. when I do not know how to love myself.”— Beau Taplin, afadthatlastsforever.tumblr.com
“Come over. I don’t really mind whether we talk for hours, get blind drunk, or sit in silence and look up to the stars. Sometimes, the world down here just gets a bit much, and I need to lose myself in someone’s company for a little while.”— Beau Taplin, afadthatlastsforever.tumblr.com