“I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up.”— Lauren Oliver, amazon.com
“One day, I lost sight of her. I happened to glance away for a moment, and when I turned back, she had disappeared.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“I don’t think relationships are just physicality. There are ways to show you care about someone, not just using your lips… Or any other body part.”— Jenny Han, amazon.com
“I’d fallen in love with her because I was the ultimate me with her. Loving her made me superhuman, it made me feel alive. At her easiest, she was hard, because her brain was always working, working, working.”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.com
“I think lots of nice things about you during the day, but I’m too tired to tell you them.”— Simone de Beauvoir, amazon.com
“When it’s gone, you’ll know what a gift love was. You’ll suffer like this. So go back and fight to keep it.”— Ian McEwan, amazon.com
“It is a frightening thought, that in one fraction of a moment you can fall in the kind of love that takes a lifetime to get over.”— Beau Taplin, goodreads.com
“Love isn’t something you can legislate. Love is more than charts and graphs and matching interests. Love is messy and complicated and it is a mistake to deny its random magic.”— Amy Engel, amazon.com
“Finding someone you can really connect with is like winning the lottery — It happens basically never, but if it does, you really shouldn’t blow it.”— Jessica Verdi, amazon.com
“She loves the serene brutality of the ocean, loves the electric power she felt with each breath of wet, briny air.”— Holly Black, amazon.com
“I’ve been taught that love is beautiful and kind, but it isn’t like that at all. It is beautiful, but it’s a terrible beauty, a ruthless one, and you fall-you fall, and the thing is – The thing is you want to. You don’t care what’s coming you just want who your heart beats for.”— Elizabeth Scott, amazon.com
“A person doesn’t know true hurt and suffering until they’ve felt the pain of falling in love with someone whose affections lie elsewhere.”— Rose Gordon, amazon.com
“She loves the serene brutality of the ocean, loves the electric power she felt with each breath of wet, briny air.”— Holly Black, amazon.com