“But that’s love, to give away everything, to sacrifice everything, without the slightest desire to get anything in return.”— Albert Camus, amazon.com
“You don’t find love, it finds you. It’s got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what’s written in the stars.”— Anaïs Nin, goodreads.com
“It was strange how your brain could know what your heart refused to accept.”— J. K. Rowling, amazon.com
“I mean they don’t seem able to love us just the way we are. They don’t seem able to love us unless they can keep changing us a little bit. They love their reasons for loving us almost as much as they love us, and most of the time more.”— J. D. Salinger, amazon.com
“Some of us have hearts, you know. Some of us don’t give up on true love.”— Sophie Kinsella, amazon.com
“It’s easy to take off your clothes and have sex. People do it all the time. But opening up your soul to someone, letting them into your spirit, thoughts, fears, future, hopes, dreams… that is being naked.”— Rob Bell, amazon.com
“Sorrow is how we learn to love. Your heart isn’t breaking. It hurts because it’s getting larger. The larger it gets, the more love it holds.”— Rita Mae Brown, amazon.com
“I love you so much, much, much that it just hurts every minute I’m without you.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, theromantic.com
“The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself.”— William Faulkner, amazon.com
“People fall in and out of love all the time, and sometimes people have numerous loves throughout their lives. But you have two epic loves and no matter who you were with, I don’t think you’d ever get over or forget the other.”— Molly McAdams, amazon.com
“I want to ask her what love feels like when you’re afraid of the person who you thought you were meant to be with forever. I want to know if she even believes in forever.”— Kristina Haynes, where-are-you-press.myshopify.com
“I want love to be simple. I want to trust without thinking. I want to be generous with my affection and patience and love unconditionally. It is easier to love a person with their flaws than to weed through them. I want to love the whole person, not parts; and this is how I want to be loved.”— Jewel Kilcher, amazon.com
“Love me when I least deserve it, because that’s when I really need it.”— Swedish Proverb, goodreads.com
“I find the best way to love someone is not to change them, but instead, help them reveal the greatest version of themselves.”— Steve Maraboli, amazon.com
“Stay away from the ones you love too much. Those are the ones who will kill you.”— Donna Tartt, amazon.com
“It seems we need someone to know us as we are - with all we have done - and forgive us. We need to tell. We need to be whole in someone’s sight: Know this about me, and yet love me. Please.”— Sue Miller, amazon.com