“I mean you have been disappointed in love, but don’t you know how many things there are to be disappointed in besides love? You are lucky to be still disappointed in love. Later it may be even more terrible.”— Saul Bellow, amazon.com
“Some people don’t know how to fall in love, like not knowing how to swim. They panic first when they jump in. Then they figure it out.”— Sarah Addison Allen, amazon.com
“What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, amazon.com
“I want to feel that again. I want to remember what it feels like to love someone like that. And not just anyone. I want to know what it feels like to love...”— Colleen Hoover, Tarryn Fisher, amazon.com
“Love is a temporary madness, it erupts like volcanoes and then subsides. And when it subsides, you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness,…”— Louis de Bernieres, amazon.com
“I love myself.’ the quietest. simplest. most powerful. revolution. ever.”— Nayyirah Waheed, nayyirahwaheed.tumblr.com
“...I want you to know how sorry I am for pushing you away when I had only meant to bring you closer.”— Lang Leav, amazon.com
“'Why do you write?' 'So I can take my love for you and give it to the world'...Because you won't take it from me.”— Lang Leav, amazon.com
“Some people feel like they don’t deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past.”— Jon Krakauer, amazon.com
“The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.”— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com
“I kissed her until there was more happiness inside me than sadness.”— Benjamin Alire Sáenz, 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 will find that special person who is wrong for me in just the right way.”— Andrew Boyd, dailyafflictions.com
“When people say "there are other fish in the sea" I say "fuck you, she was my sea.”— Jen Faulkner, goodreads.com
“When I asked her where she’d rather be than in my arm, she put her hand on my chest and said ‘in here’ and since then I swear my heart feels full of her love.”— Maram Rimawi, wnq-writers.com
“If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there’s salvation in life. Even if you can’t get together with that person.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“I think I fell in love with her, a little bit. Isn’t that dumb? But it was like I knew her. Like she was my oldest, dearest friend. The kind of person you can tell anything to, no matter how bad, and they’ll still love you, because they know you. I wanted to go with her. I wanted her to notice me. A…”— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com
“I think I love him, but I also think that you can love people who aren’t good for you.”— Augusten Burroughs, amazon.com