“Anyone who cares about you has to realize that you need a little looking after, nothing else really matters.”— Franz Kafka, amazon.com
“I did not always think he was right nor did he always think I was right but we were each the person the other trusted.”— Joan Didion, amazon.com
“Sometimes you know in your heart you love someone, but you have to go away before your head can figure it out.”— Sharon Creech, amazon.com
“I don’t care about whose DNA has recombined with whose. When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching -–they are your family.”— Jim Butcher, amazon.com
“Long after you’ve forgotten someone’s voice, you can still remember the sound of their happiness or their sadness. You can feel it in your body.”— Anne Michaels, amazon.com
“Even when I detach, I care. You can be separate from a thing and still care about it.”— David Levithan, amazon.com
“I have a hole where my heart should be, she thought, and nowhere else to go.”— George R. R. Martin, amazon.com
“There used to be days that I thought I was okay, or at least that I was going to be. We’d be hanging out somewhere and everything would just fit right and I would think ‘it will be okay if it can just be like this forever’ but of course nothing can ever stay just how it is forever.”— Nina LaCour, amazon.com
“Look, let me put it this way: with me, you’re number one and there isn’t even a number two.”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“I just wanted to tell you that with all your faults I love you. I love or revere very few people. As for the rest, I’m ashamed of my indifference to them. But for those I love, nothing and no one, neither I nor certainly they themselves, can ever make me stop loving them. It took me a long time to l…”— Albert Camus, amazon.com
“I’ve been hurt so bad and I still love so hard. I admire my heart for that.”— ALEXANDRA ELLE, amazon.com
“I now know that some people feel unhappiness the way others love: privately, intensely, and without recourse.”— Khaled Hosseini, amazon.com