“I could not tell you if I loved you the first moment I saw you, or if it was the second or third or fourth. But I remember the first moment I looked at you walking toward me and realized that somehow the rest of the world seemed to vanish when I was with you.”— Cassandra Clare, amazon.com
“I've got a heart that's full of love, with so much love to give. So me giving you a hug might have been all you needed. Me giving you a handshake, looking you in your eyes, telling you I understand, us connecting. That's worth more than money to me.”— Kevin Gates, noisey.vice.com
“People grow when they are loved well. If you want to help others heal, love them without an agenda.”— Mike McHargue, twitter.com
“By your side I’m most quiet and most unquiet, most inhibited and most free.”— Franz Kafka, amazon.com
“You see I’d like to have you not just like me in bed but like me in the head and like to talk about things that interest us both.”— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com
“The only meaningful thing we can offer one another is love. Not advice, not questions about our choices, not suggestions for the future, just love.”— Glennon Melton, amazon.com
“And sometimes you held somebody’s hand just to prove that you were still alive, and that another human being was there to testify that fact.”— Rainbow Rowell, amazon.com
“Never love a wild thing… You can’t give your heart to a wild thing: the more you do, the stronger they get. Until they’re strong enough to run.”— Truman Capote, amazon.com
“Greeting cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all the time.”— Zadie Smith, amazon.com
“Look, let’s give it up. Let’s just lay around and make love and take walks and talk a little. Let’s drive down and look at the ocean. It’s only 45 minutes. Let’s play games in the arcades. Let’s go to the races, the Art Museum, the boxing matches. Let’s have friends. Let’s laugh. This kind of life l…”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“...you can know the whole world and still feel lost in it. So many people are in pain-no matter how smart or accomplished-they cry, they yearn, they hurt... we all want the same things: comfort, love, and a peaceful heart.”— Mitch Albom, amazon.com
“Hurt people hurt people. That’s how pain patterns gets passed on, generation after generation after generation. Break the chain today. Meet anger with sympathy, contempt with compassion, cruelty with kindness. Greet grimaces with smiles. Forgive and forget about finding fault. Love is the weapon of…”— Yehuda Berg, amazon.com