“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
“Insecurity is the worst sense that lovers feel..Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust.”— Graham Greene, amazon.com
“Not all love is gentle. Sometimes it’s gritty and dirty and possessive, sometimes it’s not supposed to be careful or soft at all. Sometimes it feels like teeth.”— Azra T., 5000letters.tumblr.com
“People fall so in love with their pain, they can’t leave it behind. The same as the stories they tell. We trap ourselves.”— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com
“Even though love covers all things, fear is what keeps us silent and keeps words unsaid. Fear keeps us standing in one place. Eventually, when it wins, it means we never got the courage to say what we needed to say.”— Hannah Brencher, amazon.com
“But I believe in true love, you know? I don’t believe that everybody gets to keep their eyes or not get sick or whatever, but everybody should have true love, and it should last at least as long as your life does.”— John Green, amazon.com
“Those who love you are not fooled by mistakes you have made or dark images you hold about yourself. They remember your beauty when you feel ugly; your wholeness when you are broken; your innocence when you feel guilty; and your purpose when you are confused.”— Alan Cohen, amazon.com
“I think perhaps love comes from finding someone you feel utterly comfortable with, someone who makes you comfortable with yourself. It’s like…finding yourself, or maybe it’s like finding the other part of yourself.”— Candice Proctor, amazon.com
“I just love that feeling when things are about to change. Like when you know that in a few seconds you’re going to do something and become someone else.”— Mindi Scott, amazon.com
“Your bad love of yourselves makes solitude a prison to you. But let this be your honor: always to love more than you are loved and never to be second in this.”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com
“She wants to know if I love her, that's all anyone wants from anyone else, not love itself but the knowledge that love is there...”— Jonathan Safran Foer, amazon.com
“I feel like I’m in the wrong world. ‘Cause I don’t belong in a world where we don’t end up together. I don’t. There are parallel universes out there where this didn’t happen. Where I was with you and you were with me. And whatever universe that is, that’s the one that my heart lives in.”— Sam Esmail, Dell, Justin Long, amazon.com
“But my favorite thing of all: I like you ‘cause you like me. I don’t know - I think that says a lot about how great you are as a person.”— Sam Esmail, Dell, Justin Long, amazon.com
“I will love you if I never see you again, and I will love you if I see you every Tuesday.”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.com
“There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don’t you?”— Rumi, amazon.com
“Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren’t even there before.”— Mignon McLaughlin, amazon.com
“I find the best way to love someone is not to change them, but instead, to help them reveal the greatest version of himself.”— Steve Maraboli, amazon.com