“I will love you as we grow older, which has just happened, and has happened again, and happened several days ago, continuously, and then several years before that, and will continue to happen as the spinning hands of every clock and the flipping pages of every calendar mark the passage of time, exce…”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.com
“This is love…isn’t it? When you notice someone’s absence and hate that absence more than anything? More, even, than you love [their] presence?”— Jonathan Safran Foer, amazon.com
“I want to love someone so selflessly that he would never even think about going away. I suppose that's what most people want. In fact, that's probably why we don't kill one another all the time. Everyone's just a little too lonely to risk it.”— Dennis Cooper, amazon.com
“Most people would have found it grotesque, but when you're in love nothing is so abstract or horrible that it can't be thought of as cute.”— David Sedaris, amazon.com
“Because when you're in love, you think you're invincible. It blinds you. And you don't seem to care.”— Agatha Christie, amazon.com
“See the worst of me, and try to love me despite all the dark you find.”— Tyler Knott Gregson, tylerknott.com
“Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says: 'I need you because I love you.'”— Erich Fromm, amazon.com
“I think love is a hard word to define...You can love a lot of things about a person and still not love the whole person.”— Colleen Hoover, amazon.com
“I love him because he makes me laugh when I don't feel like laughing. I love him because he challenges my view of what a man is. I love him because I know I shouldn't love him and that he'll break my heart. I love him because he's a complete and total anomaly. I love him because I want to kill the s…”— L.H. Cosway, amazon.com
“I miss everything. I miss talking to her, hearing about her day. I miss her voice all gravelly and smoky, I miss hearing her laugh, I miss getting her letters, writing her letters. I miss her eyes, and the smell of her hair, and the way her breath tasted. I fucking miss everything. I miss knowing sh…”— James Frey, amazon.com
“If you told me today our being together would result in heartbreak, I would still choose to be with you because I believe that truly living life is in the experiences, not the outcomes.”— Kathryn Vance-Perez, amazon.com
“Hell is when people you love the most reach right into your soul and rip it out of you. And they do it because they can.”— Jess Rothenberg, amazon.com
“Will you tolerate the strangeness inside of me, the quirks of my soul?”— Tyler Knott Gregson, tylerknott.com
“One of the reasons why we crave love, and seek it so desperately, is that love is the only cure for loneliness, and shame, and sorrow. But some feelings sink so deep into the heart that only loneliness can help you find them again. Some truths about yourself are so painful that only shame can help y…”— Gregory David Roberts, amazon.com
“Those who love you are not fooled by mistakes you have made or dark images you hold about yourself. They remember your beauty when you feel ugly; your wholeness when you are broken; your innocence when you feel guilty; and your purpose when you are confused.”— Alan Cohen, goodreads.com
“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves; it is not my nature. My attachments are always excessively strong.”— Jane Austen, amazon.com
“Maybe…you’ll fall in love with me all over again.‘Hell,’ I said, 'I love you enough now. What do you want to do? Ruin me?’'Yes. I want to ruin you.’'Good,’ I said. 'That’s what I want too.”— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com