“They were in love, happy, content; but why was it so painful being in love, why was there so much pain in happiness?”— Virginia Woolf, amazon.com
“The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went.”— Virginia Woolf, amazon.com
“I love people. Everybody. I love them, I think, as a stamp collector loves his collection. Every story, every incident, every bit of conversation is raw material for me. My love’s not impersonal yet not wholly subjective either. I would like to be everyone, a cripple, a dying man, a [woman], and the…”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com
“I am missing you most in the silence between songs on my favourite records. Sometimes it takes so long for the music to start.”— Andrea Gibson, ohandreagibson.tumblr.com
“Darlings, sometimes love will come to you like a fire to a forest. When it does, be braver than I was. Just leave. Take only what you can carry. No tears, no second thoughts. You have hands like tinder boxes, the smallest spark will kill you.”— Clementine Von Radics, clementinepoetry.us
“Real love amounts to withholding the truth, even when you're offered the perfect opportunity to hurt someone's feelings.”— David Sedaris, amazon.com
“When the lamp is shattered The light in the dust lies dead — When the cloud is scattered, The rainbow's glory is shed. When the lute is broken, Sweet tones are remembered not; When the lips have spoken, Loved accents are soon forgot.”— Percy Bysshe Shelley, en.wikiquote.org
“I need to see you. I need to feel you. I want the routine with you and I want the madness with you. I want all of it with you. Feed the cats and get on the damn plane. I want you here with me.”— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com
“Why didn’t it happen between us? Why did I fail? Why did you come close enough... and not closer?”— Tennessee Williams, amazon.com
“You fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.”— J. D. Salinger, amazon.com
“Stronger than lover’s love is lover’s hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.”— Euripides, amazon.com
“We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of luck. But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness. ’”— Ellen Goodman, huffingtonpost.com
“I was in love with everything- I wanted to look with love at the angry people so that their eyes would be forced to respond; and I wanted to bring gifts to the envious and tell them that I am worthless.”— Egon Schiele, egonschiele.net
“I never want you tell me that you couldn’t possibly live without me. I just want you to know that your life is better with me in it.”— Aly McHenry, thoughtcatalog.com
“I have to remember it is not love that has hurt me; but someone who could not love me in the right way.”— R YS Perez, amazon.com