“I’m tired of living unable to love anyone. I don’t have a single friend - not one. And, worst of all, I can’t even love myself. Why is that? Why can’t I love myself? It’s because I can’t love anyone else. A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someon…”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com
“I’m going to find a way to be happy, and I’d really love to be happy with you, but if I can’t be happy with you, then I’ll find a way to be happy without you.”— Randy Pausch, amazon.com
“‘I’m sorry,’ I say. 'I didn’t give you everything you wanted. I wasn’t everything you wanted. You were everything I wanted.’”— Kaui Hart Hemmings, amazon.com
“Why is it so hard to articulate love yet so easy to express disappointment?”— Kaui Hart Hemmings, amazon.com
“You can’t force love, I realized. It’s there or it isn’t. If it’s not there, you’ve got to be able to admit it. If it is there, you’ve got to do whatever it takes to protect the ones you love.”— Richelle Mead, amazon.com
“I wonder how many people don’t get the one they want, but end up with the one they’re supposed to be with.”— Fannie Flagg, amazon.com
“They told me that to make her fall in love, I had to make her laugh. But everytime she laughs, I'm the one who falls in love.”— Tommaso Ferraris, goodreads.com
“One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night.”— Margaret Mead, goodreads.com
“I’m not sure anybody ever gets completely over their first love, and that still rankles. Part of me still wants to know what was wrong with me. What I was lacking.”— Stephen King, amazon.com
“Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.”— Chuck Klosterman, amazon.com
“But you can’t shut everyone out. I mean you have to have someone to love…someone to hold on to… someone–”— Hubert Selby Jr., amazon.com
“Love is poison. A sweet poison, yes, but it will kill you all the same.”— George R. R. Martin, amazon.com
“You can’t measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.”— Milan Kundera, amazon.com
“What else? She is so beautiful. You don’t get tired of looking at her. You never worry if she is smarter than you: You know she is. She is funny without ever being mean. I love her. I am so lucky to love her.”— John Green, amazon.com