“In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.”— Rumi, amazon.com
“What if instead of the right words, all that it took was the right pair of ears and the right beating heart?”— Mary Kate Teske, quotemadness.com
“Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.”— Orhan Pamuk, amazon.com
“Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.”— Charlotte Brontë, amazon.com
“All romances end in tragedy. One of the key people in a romance becomes a monster sooner or later.”— David Cronenberg, amazon.com
“I want you to laugh, to kill all your worries, to love you, to nourish you. Oh sweet bitterness, I will soothe you and heal you. I will bring you roses. I too have been covered with thorns.”— Rumi, amazon.com
“Did you know that chocolate contains a property that triggers the release of endorphins. It gives one the feeling of being in love.”— Roald Dahl, amazon.com
“I’m running from the very person I’m chasing, and this is how I know I’m in love.”— Jarod Kintz, whereworryendsfaithbegins.wordpress.com
“Sacrificing everything that you care about in order to make another person happy is not love. It’s not really that some people are gardeners and some people are flowers. It’s that we both must be both, each in our own time.”— Leila Sales, amazon.com
“A gentle reminder that your heart is a muscle and so should be exercised regularly. Love often and love deeply.”— Beau Taplin, twitter.com
“Beware of what you let enter your heart. There’ll come a day when you’d give anything to remove it.”— Yasmin Mogahed, amazon.com
“There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature.”— Lawrence Durrell, amazon.com
“Life’s tough. It’s a challenge. So think of love as your hard earned reward. Don’t let doubt take that away from you.”— Riley Murphy, amazon.com
“Having your heart broken isn’t something you can just shake off — not if the love was real. That’s why so many people’s lives seem to fall apart after they lose the one they loved.”— Paul Hudson, thoughtcatalog.com
“Yet we can perhaps only ever fall in love without knowing quite who we have fallen in love with. The initial convulsion is necessarily founded on ignorance.”— Alain de Botton, amazon.com
“We don’t need to be constantly reasonable in order to have good relationships; all we need to have mastered is the occasional capacity to acknowledge with good grace that we may, in one or two areas, be somewhat insane.”— Alain de Botton, amazon.com