“It's awful not to be loved. It's the worst thing in the world. It makes you mean, and violent, and cruel.”— John Steinbeck, amazon.com
“I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.”— John Steinbeck, amazon.com
“If we end it right in the throes of infatuation, remembering it only for the nights entangled in romance and lust, before there could be any complications or hurt pride, then we’ll both be safe.”— Kristin Addis, thoughtcatalog.com
“I might know that you love Metallica thanks to Spotify but I may never know your Sunday morning routine.”— Kristin Addis, thoughtcatalog.com
“You see, the lovely thing about you is the person who you are right here, without the pressures of real life and the stress of where the next paycheck will come from.”— Kristin Addis, thoughtcatalog.com
“We skirt the issue of tomorrow and with every passing day, when each sunset lights up the sky, we pretend that the shelf life this has doesn’t exist.”— Kristin Addis, thoughtcatalog.com
“I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.”— John Steinbeck, amazon.com
“In every bit of honest writing in the world, there is a base theme. Try to understand men, if you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and nearly always leads to love. There are shorter means, many of them. There is writing promoting social cha…”— John Steinbeck, amazon.com
“You turn my life into something light, amazing, rainbowed— you put a glint of happiness on everything.”— Vladimir Nabokov, amazon.com
“It never occurred to me that you could love someone the same way after he was gone, that I would continue to feel such love and gratitude alongside the terrible sorrow, the grief so heavy that at times I shiver and moan under the weight of it.”— Lucy Kalanithi, amazon.com
“Because I love you truly, because you love me, too. My very greatest happiness is sharing life with you.”— Minna Thomas Antrim, amazon.com
“Listen, I love you. You make my world. And I’m here for you now, and forever. I’m here.”— Pat Pace, thoughtcatalog.com
“I’m not sure about what the future holds for me but I’m sure I want you in it.”— Rania Naim, thoughtcatalog.com
“Stay for me. Stay with me. There will never be anyone else. Not in my bed. Not in my life. And not in my heart.”— Rachel Vincent, amazon.com
“What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life — to strengthen each other in all labour, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting…”— Mary Ann Evans, amazon.com