“The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much.”— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com
“If you begin to give away parts of yourself, eventually you’ll give it all. And once you’ve lost yourself, haven’t you lost everything?”— Julie Garwood, amazon.com
“I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.”— Mother Teresa, amazon.com
“When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.”— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com
“I love you, even if there isn’t any me, or any love, or even any life. I love you.”— Zelda Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“Nobody’s lives just fit together. Fitting together is something you work at. It’s something you make happen - because you love each other.”— Rainbow Rowell, amazon.com
“There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.”— William S. Burroughs, goodreads.com
“I don’t understand how I can know so little about love and how it works. How I can be so bad at it when it’s all I’ve ever wanted. All I’ve ever known is about leaving or being left.”— Carrie Ryan, amazon.com
“It’s more like you meet someone, and you fall in love, and you hope that that person is the one—and then at some point, you have to put down your chips. You just have to make a commitment and hope that you’re right.”— Rainbow Rowell, amazon.com
“I understand how easy it would be to lose yourself in the heart of another. It‘s frightening. Exhilarating. An ocean with no lifeguard.”— Sarah Ockler, amazon.com
“All I wanted was just what everybody else wants, you know, to be loved.”— Rita Hayworth, en.wikiquote.org
“You belong to me, I have made you mine. I have fought for you within myself, from the beginning, and always anew, and perhaps forever.”— Franz Kafka, amazon.com
“It was the eyes. The secret of love was in the eyes. The way one person looked at another, the way eyes communicated and spoke when the lips never moved.”— V.C Andrews, amazon.com
“I want you to come live with me, and die with me, and everything with me.”— Vladimir Nabokov, amazon.com
“Someone once said that the moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you’ve already stopped loving that person forever.”— Carlos Ruiz Zafon, amazon.com
“She was forced to consider the startling fact that the love of her life might not actually be someone with whom she could spend a lifetime.”— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com