“His job was not to be with you forever no his job was to be the one who loved you so sweetly and so deeply that you are unable to deny the love you denied yourself your whole life.”— Janne Robinson, thoughtcatalog.com
“If, today, I feel so distant from everything, it is because I have strength only to love and to admire.”— Albert Camus, amazon.com
“Being in love is a good thing, but it is not the best thing. There are many things below it, but there are many things above it. You cannot make it the basis of a whole life. It is a noble feeling, but it is still a feeling… knowledge can last, principles can last, habits can last; but feelings come…”— C. S. Lewis, amazon.com
“I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.”— Franz Kafka, amazon.com
“I don’t. I don’t want anybody else to touch you. I’m silly. I get furious if they touch you.”— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com
“If you can sit in silence with a person for half an hour and yet be entirely comfortable, you and that person can be friends. If you cannot, friends you’ll never be and you need not waste time in trying.”— L. M. Montgomery, amazon.com
“Meeting your soul mate is like walking into a house you’ve been in before - you will recognize the furniture, the pictures on the wall, the books on the shelves, the contents of drawers: You could find your way around in the dark if you had to.”— Jandy Nelson, amazon.com
“Sometimes we love with nothing more than hope. Sometimes we cry with everything except tears.”— Gregory David Roberts, amazon.com
“Perhaps everyone loved someone; I didn’t now, I couldn’t give much thought to love; in order to travel far you had to be detached.”— Ralph Ellison, amazon.com
“that’s all anyone wants from anyone else, not love itself but the knowledge that love is there, like new batteries in the flashlight in the emergency kit in the hall closet.”— Jonathan Safran Foer, amazon.com