“He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.”— Leo Tolstoy, amazon.com
“I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.”— Margaret Atwood, amazon.com
“There is a place in the heart that will never be filled and we will wait and wait in that space.”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“Do you know what people really want? Everyone, I mean. Everybody in the world is thinking: I wish there was just one other person I could really talk to, who could really understand me, who’d be kind to me. That’s what people really want, if they’re telling the truth.”— Doris Lessing, amazon.com
“They won’t understand until you leave. The minute you walk away you’ll become ‘the best they’ve ever had.’ It’s crazy how loss triggers love.”— Alex Elle, whisper.sh
“I loved you long before I had the guts to let you know.”— William Chapman, williamchapmanwritings.tumblr.com
“I love the ground under his feet, and the air over his head, and everything he touches and every word he says. I love all his looks, and all his actions and him entirely and all together.”— Emily Brontë, amazon.com
“Even if I now saw you only once, I would long for you through worlds, worlds, worlds.”— Izumi Shikibu, amazon.com
“We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others.”— John Lennon, goodreads.com
“And when it started to get dark you pointed to the sky, and told me there was a star for every thing you loved about me.”— Lauren Oliver, amazon.com
“I just need to know that someone out there listens and understands and doesn’t try to sleep with people even if they could have. I need to know that these people exist.”— Stephen Chbosky, amazon.com
“The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.”— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com
“We emotionally manipulated each other until we thought it was love.”— Warsan Shire, apoemaday.tumblr.com
“She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn’t supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.”— Rainbow Rowell, amazon.com