“Reframing love as something I get to create with someone I admire, rather than something that just happens to me without my control or consent, is empowering.”— Mandy Len Catron, ted.com
“Everyone always wants to know how you can tell when it’s true love, and the answer is this: when the pain doesn’t fade and the scars don’t heal, and it’s too damned late.”— Jonathan Tropper, amazon.com
“You are not broken. You can love and be loved, despite what may feel like the eternally brutal nature of the world. Even when you’re drowning and so far under, there is always time to reach for someone who will teach you how to breathe again.”— Jessica Park, amazon.com
“She felt dangerously powerful, she loved, she knew love, everything else paled.”— Anne Delbée, amazon.com
“Maybe that’s worse, not letting ourselves be loved. Because we’re too afraid of giving ourselves to someone we might lose.”— Mitch Albom, amazon.com
“I’m independent and strong, but sometimes…just sometimes, it’s nice to be taken care of.”— Samantha Towle, amazon.com
“But how do you find the right people-how do you love without smothering them? How do you not suffocate them with all the love you’ve built up in their absence?”— Simon Van Booy, amazon.com
“Question everything. Your love, your religion, your passion. If you don’t have questions, you’ll never find answers.”— Colleen Hoover, amazon.com
“Sometimes it was hard to express how much you loved someone. You said the words, but you could never quite capture the depth of it. You could never quite hold someone tightly enough.”— Diane Chamberlain, amazon.com
“Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.”— Iris Murdoch, amazon.com
“You’ve got to love yourself with all your shortcomings, and you’ve got to love the world no matter how bad it gets.”— Joan Bauer, amazon.com
“Don’t be a fool. Don’t give up something important to hold onto someone who can’t even say they love you.”— Sarah Dessen, amazon.com
“The most frightening sound in the world is your own heart beating. No one likes to talk about that, but it is true. In the midst of deep fear, it’s a secret beast pounding a giant fist on some inner door, demanding to get in.”— Jonathan Carroll, amazon.com
“I need all the time and a thousand times more than all the time and if possible all the time that exists, for you, to think of you, to breathe in you.”— Franz Kafka, amazon.com