“That’s the thing about friendship, it’s a lot rarer than love, because there is nothing in it for any body.”— Owen Wilson, amazon.com
“If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.”— Emmet Fox, goodreads.com
“I will admire you exactly as much, no more or less, as you admire me. I will love you in the strictest moderation.”— Helen Oyeyemi, amazon.com
“So you know what I mean when I say that I don’t think anyone who falls in love has a choice. You’re just pulled to that person…whether it’s good for you or bound to break your heart.”— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com
“The feel of her head against his shoulder, of her familiar body, sent a shock of emotion over him. His arms holding her had a tendency to tighten around her.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they’re alive.”— Orlando Aloysius Battista, goodreads.com
“Everything that truly makes us happy is quite simple: love, sex, and food.”— Meryl Streep, facebook.com
“I’m naive enough to think that love is always good no matter how long ago, no matter the circumstances.”— Anne Michaels, amazon.com
“People like you hold their loved ones above ideals. They’ll do anything to protect them, no matter what it costs.”— Aimee Carter, amazon.com
“Human beings are such knotted, desperate pieces of work- it’s a rare thing to know one completely, to the core, and still love them.”— Dean Koontz, amazon.com
“For so many years, I couldn’t understand why every time I thought that someone finally loved me… they would eventually turn to vapor. Every person whom I’ve ever loved is trapped inside of my chest. I’ve breathed all of them in so deeply that I’ve nearly choked and died on every soul that I’ve ever…”— Jennifer Elisabeth, amazon.com
“We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.”— Tom Robbins, amazon.com
“I encounter millions of bodies in my life; of these millions, I may desire some hundreds; but of these hundreds, I love only one.”— Roland Barthes, amazon.com
“I have not fallen in love with a body, but merely a soul, and that has made all the difference.”— Christopher Poindexter, christopherpoindexter.tumblr.com
“You’ve got to fall in love, fall out of love, no matter how much it hurts because my god, it’s worth it.”— Emily Palermo, starredsoul.tumblr.com