“What’s Valentine’s Day about except the desperate search to find someone to spend Valentine’s Day with? It just shows that love has become a marketing campaign, like everything else. You buy into it and lose everything.”— David Levithan, amazon.com
“I loved you for the way you were not for the way you ought to be.”— Paolo Sorrentino, Cardinal Dussolier, Scott Shepherd, imdb.com
“People always fall in love with the most perfect aspects of each other’s personalities. Who wouldn’t? Anybody can love the most wonderful parts of another person. But that’s not the clever trick. The really clever trick is this: Can you accept the flaws? Can you look at your partner’s faults honestl…”— Elizabeth Gilbert, goodreads.com
“I realized how truly hard it was, really, to see someone you love change right before your eyes. Not only is it scary, it throws your balance off as well.”— Sarah Dessen, amazon.com
“Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.”— Mother Teresa, amazon.com
“She smiled, and there it was again, that aching pressure in his chest. Love, or a heart attack. Kind of the same thing.”— Kristan Higgins, amazon.com
“Dance. Smile. Giggle. Marvel. TRUST. HOPE. LOVE. WISH. BELIEVE. Most of all, enjoy every moment of the journey, and appreciate where you are at this moment instead of always focusing on how far you have to go.”— Mandy Hale, amazon.com
“If she loved him the way she said she did, she wanted him whole. Maybe this was what love meant after all: sacrifice and selflessness. It did not mean hearts and flowers and a happy ending, but the knowledge that another's well-being is more important than one's own.”— Melissa de la Cruz, amazon.com
“Selflessness. It should be the basis of every relationship. If a person truly cares about you, they'll get more pleasure from the way they make you feel, rather than the way you make them feel.”— Colleen Hoover, amazon.com
“I want to take you until you are boneless. I want to drain you of strength. I want to fill you and take my fill of you.”— Kathryn Smith, amazon.com
“Desire makes life happen. Makes it matter. Makes everything worth it. Desire is life.”— Karen Marie Moning, amazon.com
“Love making is much more than physical expression, it is a soulful dance of sensual wonder and euphoric amazement.”— T. F. Hodge, amazon.com
“If it was possible for two people to make sparks, simply by connecting at their lips, I would think we would have been a firework display in the dark.”— Kristen Hope Mazzola, amazon.com
“Sexual union is only truly fulfilling when both parties are at the same level and definition of love. The same exchange of energy. It’s like music. Alone you have your own tune, but when it’s combined with another it can a magical, divine experience. Each part has to know when it leads, like the mel…”— Brownell Landrum, amazon.com
“Some people simply are not meant to stay forever. Some people come into our lives for a season, for a reason, for the simple purpose of showing us the world in a way we would never have seen it otherwise.”— Heidi Priebe, thoughtcatalog.com
“There won’t be bad timing when you find the right person because the right person will have you in any capacity they can for the moment rather than not have you at all.”— Mike Zacchio, thoughtcatalog.com
“The only people who don’t have time for others are those that don’t want to make time for them.”— Mike Zacchio, thoughtcatalog.com
“If two people really believe that they are right for each other and that the only thing standing in their way of happiness is poor timing, they will fight like hell to circumvent it because love takes effort.”— Mike Zacchio, thoughtcatalog.com
“You never meet the right people at the wrong time because the right people are timeless.”— Heidi Priebe, thoughtcatalog.com
“There will never be a magical time when everything falls into place and fixes all our broken relationships. But there may someday be a person who makes the issue of timing irrelevant.”— Heidi Priebe, thoughtcatalog.com