“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, twitter.com
“Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.”— Robert Sternberg, goodreads.com
“Broken hearts healed. Maybe the cracks were always there, like thin scars, but they healed. People lived and worked, laughed and ate, walked and talked with those cracks. For many, even the scars healed and they loved again.”— Nora Roberts, amazon.com
“Some people have never been made good love to, or don't remember, or haven't been taught how, and cheat their lives out of the pleasure we each can make in one another”— Rebecca Dinerstein, amazon.com
“Someday you'll find someone special again. People who've been in love once usually do. It's in their nature.”— Nicholas Sparks, amazon.com
“Who shall give a lover any law? Love is a greater law, by my troth, than any law written by mortal man.”— Geoffrey Chaucer, amazon.com
“What is this world? what asketh men to have? Now with his love, now in his colde grave Allone, withouten any compaignye.”— Geoffrey Chaucer, amazon.com
“I will eviscerate you in fiction. Every pimple, every character flaw. I was naked for a day; you will be naked for eternity.”— Geoffrey Chaucer, amazon.com
“Remember that the most important thing is to try and love other people as much as they love you.”— David Sedaris, amazon.com
“Love isn’t soft, like those poets say. Love has teeth which bite and the wounds never close.”— Stephen King, amazon.com
“Hurt people hurt people. That’s how pain patterns gets passed on, generation after generation after generation. Break the chain today. Meet anger with sympathy, contempt with compassion, cruelty with kindness. Greet grimaces with smiles. Forgive and forget about finding fault. Love is the weapon of…”— Yehuda Berg, goodreads.com
“Grab your coat, leave a note, and run away with me.”— William Chapman, williamchapmanwritings.tumblr.com
“You fell in love with someone because of the tilt of his smile, or because he could make you laugh, or in this case, because he made you believe you were the only one who could save him.”— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com
“She loved him not only in spite of but because he himself was incapable of love.”— William Faulkner, amazon.com
“I love you – I do – but I am afraid of making that love too important. Because you’re always going to leave me…We can’t deny it. You’re always going to leave.”— David Levithan, amazon.com
“Love is the same as being lost. Except you don’t care that you’re lost.”— Jedediah Berry, amazon.com
“I hated myself for needing him at such times, for craving his strength whenever I felt upset.”— Kathy Reichs, amazon.com
“I just miss you, in a quite simple desperate human way. Oh my dear, I can’t be clever and stand-offish with you: I love you too much for that. Too truly. You have no idea how stand-offish I can be with people I don’t love. I have brought it to a fine art. But you have broken down my defences. And I…”— Vita Sackville West, amazon.com