“You overrate my capacity of love. I don't posess half the warmth of nature you believe me to have. An unprotected childhood in a cold world has beaten gentleness out of me.”— Thomas Hardy, amazon.com
“Sometimes I shrink from your knowing what I have felt for you, and sometimes I am distressed that all of it you will never know.”— Thomas Hardy, amazon.com
“I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.”— Elizabeth Barrett Browning, writerswrite.co.za
“I shall do one thing in this life - one thing certain - that is, love you, and long for you, and keep wanting you till I die.”— Thomas Hardy, amazon.com
“He was a boy, just a boy, when I was a very young girl. When I was sixteen, I made the discovery - love. All at once and much, much too completely. It was like you suddenly turned a blinding on something that had always been half in shadow, that's how it struck the world for me. But I was unlucky. D…”— Tennessee Williams, amazon.com
“You said, 'They’re harmless dreamers and they’re loved by the people.' 'What,' I asked you, 'is harmless about a dreamer, and what,' I asked you, 'is harmless about the love of the people? Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.”— Tennessee Williams, amazon.com
“Sometimes I touch the things you used to touch, looking for echoes of your fingers.”— Iain Thomas, amazon.com
“I am occasionally lovable but for the most part I’m like loving a raincloud.”— Sara Quin, quotemadness.com
“I wonder how many people don’t get the one they want, but end up with the one they’re supposed to be with.”— Fannie Flagg, amazon.com
“To him, I was just a five minute smoke break. To me, he was an addiction.”— Ashleigh Catibog-Abraham, ashleighcatibogabraham.tumblr.com
“I saw that nothing was permanent. You don’t want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it.”— Yoko Ono, rollingstone.com
“People were created to be loved. Things were created to be used. The reason why the world is in chaos is because things are being loved and people are being used.”— John Green, amazon.com
“I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it — to be fed so much love I couldn’t take any more. Just once.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com