“They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.”— Tom Bodett, amazon.com
“There is no shame in being hungry for another person. There is no shame in wanting very much to share your life with somebody.”— Augusten Burroughs, amazon.com
“Wasn’t that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted.”— Abraham Verghese, amazon.com
“If somebody likes me, I want them to like the real me, not what they think I am. And I don’t want them to carry it around inside. I want them to show me, so I can feel it, too. I want them to be able to do whatever they want around me.”— Stephen Chbosky, amazon.com
“I don’t even mind that life made me wait so long to find you. The waiting only made the finding sweeter.”— Ronald Reagan, amazon.com
“I heard what you said. I’m not the silly romantic you think. I don’t want the heavens or the shooting stars. I don’t want gemstones or gold. I have those things already. I want…a steady hand. A kind soul. I want to fall asleep, and wake, knowing my heart is safe. I want to love, and be loved.”— Shana Abe, amazon.com
“And when I asked you how you’d been, I meant I missed you more than I’ve ever missed anything before.”— Iain Thomas, amazon.com
“We didn’t talk about anything heavy or light. We were just there together. And that was enough.”— Stephen Chbosky, amazon.com
“And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter— they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long.”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com
“I have no notion of loving people by halves; it is not my nature. My attachments are always excessively strong.”— Jane Austen, amazon.com
“Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that’s ok with them.”— Alain de Botton, amazon.com
“I love you. I worry about you. I wonder whether I tell you enough how I love you and want you and need you and how I am diminished … when you are not with me and how I am multiplied when you are here.”— Pat Frank, amazon.com
“Someday, we’ll run into each other again, I know it. Maybe I’ll be older and smarter and just plain better. If that happens, that’s when I’ll deserve you. But now, at this moment, you can’t hook your boat to mine, because I’m liable to sink us both.”— Gabrielle Zevin, amazon.com
“The important people in our lives leave imprints. They may stay or go in the physical realm, but they are always there in your heart, because they helped form your heart. There’s no getting over that.”— Rachel Cohn, amazon.com
“The smell of her hair, the taste of her mouth, the feeling of her skin seemed to have got inside him, or into the air all round him. She had become a physical necessity.”— George Orwell, amazon.com