“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“Men spoke of how the heart broke up, but never spoke of how the soul hung speechless in the pause, the void, the terror between the living and the dead.”— James Baldwin, amazon.com
“You cannot pick and choose what parts of her to love. Just as you cannot pick which parts of me you accept.”— Sarah J. Maas, amazon.com
“Love is a haunting melody that I have never mastered, and I fear I never will.”— William S. Burroughs, goodreads.com
“Even if I now saw you only once, I would long for you through worlds, worlds, worlds.”— Izumi Shikibu, amazon.com
“I admit that for me love goes deeper than the struggle, or maybe what I mean is, love is the deeper struggle.”— Julia Alvarez, amazon.com
“...we know so little about one another. We embrace a shadow and love a dream.”— Hjalmar Söderberg, amazon.com
“That's how you know you love someone, I guess, when you can't experience anything without wishing the other person were there to see it, too.”— Kaui Hart Hemmings, amazon.com
“Maybe the fear of loving you has to do with the fear of me losing myself in you only to someday lose you too.”— Ava Shêzori, instagram.com
“I love you, that means I’m not just here for the pretty parts. I’m here no matter what.”— Claudia Gray, amazon.com
“A pain stabbed my heart, as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.”— Jack Kerouac, amazon.com
“I think I fall in love a little bit with anyone who shows me their soul… I appreciate rawness so much.”— Emery Allen, amazon.com
“It's not exactly love at first sight. It is more like soul recognition.”— Lynette Simeone, twitter.com
“And she finds it difficult to believe — that a person would love her even when she isn’t trying. Trying to figure out what other people need, trying to be worthy.”— Margaret Atwood, amazon.com
“Compassion basically means accepting people’s frailties, their weaknesses, not expecting them to behave like gods. That expectation is cruelty.”— Osho, amazon.com
“She did not need much, wanted very little. A kind word, sincerity, fresh air, clean water, a garden, kisses, books to read, sheltering arms, a cosy bed, and to love and be loved in return.”— Starra Neely Blade, dreamsinthyme.tumblr.com