“Pure love for another person, and what people call romantic love, are two different things. Pure love doesn’t manipulate the relationship to one’s advantage, but romantic love is different. Romantic love contains other elements—the desire to be loved by the other person, for instance. If purely lovi…”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicted to me. A mutual addiction.”— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com
“I thought of all the different kinds of love in the world. I could think of ten without even trying. The way parents love their kid, the way you love a puppy or chocolate ice cream or home or your favorite book or your sister. Or your uncle...There’s those kinds of loves and then there’s the other k…”— Carol Rifka Brunt, amazon.com
“As of right now, I am in love with her, and that love is the biggest problem in my life.”— Chuck Klosterman, amazon.com
“What are you supposed to do with all the love you have for somebody if that person is no longer there? What happens to all that leftover love? Do you suppress it? Do you ignore it? Are you supposed to give it to someone else?”— Maggie O'Farrell, amazon.com
“You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways.”— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com
“Goodnight dear. If you were in my bed it might be the back of your head I was touching, where the hair is short, or it might be up in the front where it makes little caves above your head. But wherever it was, it would be the sweetest place, the sweetest place.”— Zelda Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“I don’t think I could love you so much if you had nothing to complain of and nothing to regret. I don’t like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and of little value. Life hasn’t revealed its beauty to them.”— Boris Pasternak, amazon.com
“To have her here in bed with me, breathing on me, her hair in my mouth—I count that something of a miracle.’”— Henry Miller, amazon.com
“When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it’s safe inside your mouth.”— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com
“A profound love between two people involves, after all, the power and chance of doing profound hurt.”— Ursula K. Le Guin, amazon.com
“If you want to fall in love, you can’t hold everything in. You have to open up, take that risk. You’ll be hurt sometimes, but if you don’t, you’ll never be happy. The one you find may not be the kind…you expected to fall in love with, but it won’t matter, you’ll love…”— Jean M. Auel, amazon.com
“'What kind of love are you talking about?' 'The kind of love that owns you. The kind where you know the other person inside and out. Where you can go through hell and back and still make it out okay.'”— Jessica Sorensen, amazon.com
“A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.”— Kurt Vonnegut, amazon.com
“This was the boy I loved. A little bit messy. A little bit ruined. A beautiful disaster.”— Michelle Hodkin, amazon.com
“Even in that most important area of her life, love, she had failed to commit herself. After her first romantic disappointment, she had never again given herself entirely. She feared pain, loss, and separation. These things were inevitable on the path to love, and the only way of avoiding them was by…”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com