“Nothing is worse than when someone who’s supposed to love you just leaves.”— Ava Dellaira, amazon.com
“If you love deeply, you’re going to get hurt badly. But it’s still worth it.”— C. S. Lewis, amazon.com
“Once someone’s hurt you, it’s harder to relax around them, harder to think of them as safe to love. But it doesn’t stop you from wanting them.”— Holly Black, amazon.com
“But in my experience poetry speaks to you either at first sight or not at all. A flash of revelation and a flash of response. Like lightning. Like falling in love.”— J.M. Coetzee, amazon.com
“that’s all anyone wants from anyone else, not love itself but the knowledge that love is there, like new batteries in the flashlight in the emergency kit in the hall closet.”— Jonathan Safran Foer, amazon.com
“You intoxicated me. It was just as though you were making me love you by some invisible force.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“If you believe in love, you’re setting yourself up to be disappointed.”— Candace Bushnell,, amazon.com
“It is better to be loved by one person who knows your soul than millions who don’t even know your phone number.”— Richard Paul Evans, amazon.com
“One of the most amazing things that can happen is finding someone who sees everything you are and won’t let you be anything less. They see the potential of you. They see endless possibilities. And through their eyes, you start to see yourself the same way. As someone who matters. As someone who can…”— Susane Colasanti, amazon.com
“I wish to love and be loved. To hold and be held. To kiss and be kissed. To feel and be felt. Nothing more. Nothing less.”— Daren Colbert, wnq-writers.com
“Falling in love was simple; one had only to yield. Digesting another person, however, and sustaining love, was bloody work, and not a soft job.”— Hanif Kureishi, amazon.com
“You’re not in love with me, not really, you just love the way I always made you feel. Like you were the centre of my world. Because you were. I would have done anything for you.”— Abby McDonald, amazon.com
“What a terrible thing it is to wound someone you really care for and to do it so unconsciously.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com