“I remember your thread thin arms I remember your hands and how easily it seemed to me they could rip me open.”— Ingrid Michaelson & Matt Nathanson, youtube.com
“I remember that feeling of skin. It's strange to remember touch more than thought. But my fingers still tingle with it.”— Lucy Christopher, amazon.com
“Afterward she lies nestled against me, her hair tickling my face. I stroke her lightly, memorizing her body. I want her to melt into me, like butter on toast. I want to absorb her and walk around for the rest of my days with her encased in my skin.”— Sara Gruen, amazon.com
“I felt that if he touched me, I'd die. and then the thought crawled into my brain that if he didn't touch me, I'd die.”— Kitty Thomas, amazon.com
“She thoroughly taught him that one cannot take pleasure without giving pleasure, and that every gesture, every caress, every touch, every glance, every last bit of the body has its secret, which brings happiness to the person who knows how to wake it.”— Hermann Hesse, amazon.com
“We are not people who touch each other carelessly; every point of contact between us feels important, a rush of energy and relief.”— Veronica Roth, amazon.com
“I will be the silhouette in the window light if you'll be the indentation in the mattress.”— Tyler Knott Gregson, instagram.com
“Mysteries of attraction could not always be explained through logic. Sometimes the fractures in two separate souls became the very hinges that held them together.”— Lisa Kleypas, amazon.com
“There is nothing on earth more beautiful to me than your smile. No sound sweeter than your laughter. No pleasure greater than holding you in my arms. I realized today that I could never live without you, stubborn little hellion that you are. In this life and the next, you’re my only hope of happines…”— Lisa Kleypas, amazon.com
“If you want to find me I'll be out in the sandbox, just wondering where the hell all the love has gone.”— Barenaked Ladies, youtube.com
“I want you any way I can get you. Not because you’re beautiful or clever or kind or adorable, although devil knows you’re all those things. I want you because there’s no one else like you, and I don’t ever want to start a day without seeing you.”— Lisa Kleypas, amazon.com
“I want morning and noon and nightfall with you. I want your tears, your smiles, your kisses. The smell of your hair, the taste of your skin, the touch of your breath on my face. I want to see you in the final hour of my life, to lie in your arms as I take my last breath.”— Lisa Kleypas, 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
“I’ve always seen you, angel. From the moment you found me, I’ve seen nothing but you.”— Sylvia Day, amazon.com
“You’re you, and you are everything in the world to me. Every. Single. Thing.”— Lauren Blakely, amazon.com
“Love isn’t a quilt. Love isn’t patient, love isn’t kind. Love is a game, a chase, a thrill. Love is wild and war-like, and every man and woman must fight for themselves.”— Lauren Blakely, amazon.com
“He always cared for her. He always loved her. He’s madly in love with her. She’s his Love, actually. She’s his Casablanca. She’s the one he’d stop the bus for, the one he’d run through traffic for, the one he’d drive like a crazy man to the airport for and run through the terminal to stop the plane.…”— Lauren Blakely, amazon.com