“Don’t you see? The things we once loved do not change, only our belief in them… You are left with the only things that any of us have in the end. The things we keep inside of ourselves, that grow out of us, that tell us who we are.”— Kevin Wilson, amazon.com
“A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful.”— Maurice Sendak, harpers.org
“Sunsets are loved because they vanish. Flowers are loved because they go.”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com
“I understand I can’t have you. But I want to know you’re in the world with me.”— Jennifer Echols, amazon.com
“I’ll tell every one in the world that you are the only one that matters.”— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com
“I don’t think I could love you so much if you had nothing to complain of and nothing to regret. I don’t like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and of little value. Life hasn’t revealed its beauty to them.”— Boris Pasternak, amazon.com
“You told me once that a soul isn’t something a person is born with but something that must be built, by effort and error, study and love. And you did that with more dedication than most, that work of building a soul-not for your own benefit but for the benefit of those that knew you.”— Chad Harbach, amazon.com
“People say I love you all the time. When they say ‘take an umbrella, it’s raining,’ or ‘hurry back,’ or even ‘watch out, you’ll break your neck.’ There are hundreds of ways of wording it - you just have to listen for it, my dear.”— John Patrick, amazon.com
“Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that’s ok with them.”— Alain de Botton, twitter.com
“A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren’t even there before.”— Mignon McLaughlin, amazon.com
“The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never just as we desire them.”— Anne Carson, amazon.com
“I think she was afraid to love sometimes. I think it scared her. She was the type to like things that were concrete, like the ocean. Something you could point to and know what it was. I think that’s why she always struggled… And I think that’s why she also struggled with love. She couldn’t touch it.…”— Carrie Ryan, amazon.com
“Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.”— Orhan Pamuk, amazon.com
“The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.”— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com