“I will love you if I never see you again, and I will love you if I see you every Tuesday.”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.com
“The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life’s major mysteries.”— Iris Murdoch, amazon.com
“When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.”— Jimmy Hendrix, kscequinox.com
“When we pass by another person without telling them we love them it’s cruel and wrong and we all know this.”— Dave Eggers, amazon.com
“We love in another’s soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.”— Irving Layton, amazon.com
“All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.”— Henry Ellis, psychcentral.com
“I think of you often. Especially in the evenings, when I am on the balcony and it’s too dark to write or to do anything but wait for the stars. A time I love. One feels half disembodied, sitting like a shadow at the door of one’s being while the dark tide rises. Then comes the moon, marvelously sere…”— Katherine Mansfield, amazon.com
“If you're fortunate enough to be surrounded by love, everything will always be okay.”— Casey Lynn Howard, instagram.com
“You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.”— Franz Kafka, amazon.com
“I hadn’t realized how much I’d been needing to meet someone I might be able to say everything to.”— Elizabeth Berg, amazon.com
“I learned that there is good in this world, if you look hard enough for it. I learned that not everyone is disappointing, including me, and that a 1,257 bump in the ground can feel higher than a bell tower if you’re standing next to the right person.”— Jennifer Nevin, amazon.com
“I love making, I love doing. I love being to the full, I love everything which is not sitting and watching and copying and dead at heart.”— John Fowles, amazon.com
“We aren’t the things we collect, acquire, read. We are, for as long as we are here, only love. The things we loved. The people we loved. And these, I think these really do live on.”— Gabrielle Zevin, amazon.com