“I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not fuck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together in the most innocent sense of the phrase. But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I w…”— John Green, amazon.com
“A heart is not judged by how much you love; but by how much you are loved by others”— L. Frank Baum, amazon.com
“It's Paradise, but we can't get out of it. And anything you can't get out of is Hell.”— Margaret Atwood, amazon.com
“We love each other, that’s true whatever it means, but we aren’t good at it; for some it’s a talent, for others only an addiction.”— Margaret Atwood, amazon.com
“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com
“Old lovers go the way of old photographs, bleaching out gradually as in a slow bath of acid: first the moles and pimples, then the shadings. Then the faces themselves, until nothing remains but the general outlines.”— Margaret Atwood, amazon.com
“What we share may be a lot like a traffic accident but we get one another. We are survivors of each other. We have been shark to one another, but also lifeboat. That counts for something.”— Margaret Atwood, amazon.com
“Love bravely, love without borders or fear. Follow your heart no matter the cost. No matter the cost.”— Tyler Knott Gregson, tylerknott.com
“If there are no barriers, love will show itself. It is not necessary to persuade it or to guide it. Every man would be filled with love if it weren’t for the barriers of false culture and of degrading and harmful traditions. Nothing can stifle love. Love is inevitable. Love is our nature.”— Osho, oshosearch.net
“Hatred would have been easier. With hatred, I would have known what to do. Hatred is clear, metallic, one-handed, unwavering; unlike love.”— Margaret Atwood, amazon.com
“Touch comes before sight, before speech. It is the first language and the last, and it always tells the truth.”— Margaret Atwood, amazon.com
“But you can't shut everyone out. I mean you have to have someone to love... Someone to hold on to...”— Hubert Selby Jr., amazon.com
“Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. It's like the tide going out, revealing whatever's been thrown away and sunk: broken bottles, old gloves, rusting pop cans, nibbled fishbodies, bones. This is the kind of thing you see if you sit in the darkness with o…”— Margaret Atwood, amazon.com
“Marion: 'I love you, Harry. You make me feel like a person. Like I'm me... and I'm beautiful.' Harry: 'You are beautiful. You're the most beautiful girl in the world. You are my dream.'”— Jennifer Connelly, Jared Leto, Marion, Harry, amazon.com
“Unless it’s mad, passionate, extraordinary love, it’s a waste of your time. There are too many mediocre things in life; Love shouldn’t be one of them.”— Tiffanie DeBartolo, imdb.com
“The first step to loving someone else is to recognize the evil in ourselves, so we can forgive them.”— Veronica Roth, amazon.com
“I belong to the people I love, and they belong to me--they, and the love and loyalty I give them, form my identity far more than any word or group ever could.”— Veronica Roth, amazon.com
“She taught me all about real sacrifice. That it should be done from love... That it should be done from necessity, not without exhausting all other options. That it should be done for people who need your strength because they don't have enough of their own.”— Veronica Roth, amazon.com