“I love you deeply and truly, Nora. I feel worthy of you now. There is not a particle of my love that is not yours. In spite of these things which blacken my mind against you I think of you always at your best… Nora, I love you. I cannot live without you.”— James Joyce, amazon.com
“I will not tell you our love story, because—like all real love stories—it will die with us, and it should.”— John Green, Hazel, amazon.com
“You say you're not special because the world doesn't know about you, but that's an insult to me. I know about you.”— John Green, Hazel, amazon.com
“And only now that I loved a grenade did I understand the foolishness of trying to save others from my own impending fragmentation. I couldn't unlove Augustus Waters. And I didn't want to.”— John Green, Hazel, amazon.com
“The space around us evaporated, and for a weird moment I really liked my body; this cancer-ruined thing I'd spent years dragging around suddenly seemed worth the struggle, worth the chest tubes and the PICC lines and the ceaseless bodily betrayal of the tumors.”— John Green, Hazel, amazon.com
“As his parted lips met mine, I started to feel breathless in a new and fascinating way.”— John Green, Hazel, amazon.com
“'Augustus Waters,' I said, looking up at him, thinking that you cannot kiss anyone in the Anne Frank House, and thinking that Anne Frank, after all, kissed someone in the Anne Frank House, and that she would probably like nothing more than for her home to have become a place where the young and irre…”— John Green, Hazel, amazon.com
“She can't help it,' he said. 'She's got the soul of a poet and the emotional makeup of a junkyard dog.”— Stephen King, amazon.com
“I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things.”— John Green, Augustus Waters, amazon.com
“I think what scares me the most is the terrifying realization that maybe we weren’t what I thought we were that maybe you weren’t who I thought you were that maybe this wasn’t love at all.”— Marisa Donnelly, thoughtcatalog.com
“It sounds like a cliche but I also learnt that you're not going to fall for the right person until you really love yourself and feel good about how you are.”— Emma Watson, emma-watson.net
“The saddest thing for a girl to do is to dumb herself down for a guy.”— Emma Watson, marieclaire.co.uk
“Becoming yourself is really hard and confusing, and it’s a process. It’s often not cool to be the person who puts themselves out there.”— Emma Watson, marieclaire.co.uk
“I believe in true love, you know? I don't believe that everybody gets to keep their eyes or not get sick or whatever, but everybody should have true love, and it should last at least as long as your life does.”— John Green, Isaac, amazon.com
“I almost felt like he was there in my room with me, but in a way it was better, like I was not in my room and he was not in his, but instead we were together in some invisible and tenuous third space that could only be visited on the phone.”— John Green, Hazel, amazon.com
“But you keep the promise anyways. That's what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway.”— John Green, Isaac, amazon.com