“There are so many gifts, so many blessings, so many sources that I can't say any one thing—unless that one thing is love. By love I don't mean indulgence. I do not mean sentimentality. And in this instance, I don't even mean romance. I mean that condition that allowed humans to dream of God. To make…”— Maya Angelou, oprah.com
“Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.”— André Breton, amazon.com
“The biggest coward is a man who awakens a woman’s love with no intention of loving her.”— Bob Marley, goodreads.com
“Home is not where you are from, it is where you belong. Some of us travel the whole world to find it. Others, find it in a person.”— Beau Taplin, beautaplin.com
“I never thought of her as a thing to be considered by daylight. The many times I had seen her, none had been in the day. I expected her like I expected the moon.”— John Fante, amazon.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
“Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.”— Gabriel Garcia Marquez, esquire.com
“I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not the world we actually have, because the world we actually have does not meet my standards.”— Philip K Dick, thephilipkdickfilmfestival.com
“You are the only one who has understood even a whisper of me, and I will tell you that I am the only person who has understood even a whisper of you.”— Jonathan Safran Foer, amazon.com
“You have been in every line I have ever read…the…poor heart you wounded…You have been in every prospect I have ever seen since,—on the river, on the sails of the ships, on the marshes, in the clouds, in the light, in the darkness, in the wind, in the woods, in the sea, in the streets…I associate you…”— Charles Dickens, amazon.com
“I think it is all a matter of love; the more you love a memory the stronger and stranger it becomes.”— Vladimir Nabokov, lib.ru
“To him, I was just a five minute smoke break. To me, he was an addiction.”— Ashleigh Catibog-Abraham, ashleighcatibogabraham.tumblr.com
“I love you so much, much, much that it just hurts every minute I’m without you.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“...you can feel 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
“There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.”— Sarah Dessen, amazon.com