“No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.”— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com
“People like to say love is unconditional, but it's not, and even if it was unconditional, it's still never free. There's always an expectation attached. They always want something in return. Like they want you to be happy or whatever and that makes you automatically responsible for their happiness b…”— Katja Millay, amazon.com
“Ok. You fuck me, then snub me. You love me, you hate me. You show me a sensitive side, then you turn into a total asshole. Is this a pretty accurate description of our relationship.”— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com
“You know it's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It's always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works very hard to keep things rolling smoothly; someone else sails along for the ride.”— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com
“I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up.”— Lauren Oliver, amazon.com
“The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.”— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com
“Be careful of love. It'll twist your brain around and leave you thinking up is down and right is wrong.”— Rick Riordan, amazon.com
“I no longer believed in the idea of soul mates, or love at first sight. But I was beginning to believe that a very few times in your life, if you were lucky, you might meet someone who was exactly right for you. Not because he was perfect, or because you were, but because your combined flaws were ar…”— Lisa Kleypas, amazon.com
“Love is needing someone. Love is putting up with someone's bad qualities because they somehow complete you.”— Sarah Dessen, amazon.com
“The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.”— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com
“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com
“Love is deceitful and sublime. In its truest form, it brings out the best in all beings. At its worst, it's a tool used to manipulate and ruin anyone who is stupid enough to hold it.”— Sherrilyn Kenyon, amazon.com
“What you call love on your side may be called lust on another's side.”— Bangambiki Habyarimana, amazon.com
“This unrequited love business was driving him crazy. It was a feeling that took you over, mind, body, and soul. Worse than a drug that tore apart your flesh and spirit, and without which you simply could not live.”— Mirella Muffarotto, amazon.com