“you invented me and I invented you and that's why we don't get along on this bed any longer.”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“I was glad I wasn't in love, that I wasn't happy with the world. I like being at odds with everything. People in love often become edgy, dangerous. They lose their sense of perspective.”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“Tell her that you love her hair, that you love her skin, her lips, because, in truth, you love them more than you love your own.”— Junot Dìaz, amazon.com
“Love is a form of prejudice. You love what you need, you love what makes you feel good, you love what is convenient. How can you say you love one person when there are ten thousand people in the world that you would love more if you ever met them? But you'll never meet them. All right, so we do the…”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“Just for the record, she still loves you. She wouldn’t bother to torture you if she didn’t.”— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com
“I made from our ruins, a monument; a reminder to myself that worship does not keep temples from falling apart.”— Emma Bleker, amazon.com
“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”— André Gide, amazon.com
“Shouldn't we hold out for the person who doesn't just tolerate our little quirks but actually kinda likes them?”— Matt Kuhn, Ted Mosby, Josh Radnor, imdb.com
“You're gorgeous, you old hag, and if I could give you just one gift ever for the rest of your life it would be this. Confidence. It would be the gift of confidence.”— David Nicholls, amazon.com
“If you're going to wear a dress like that you need to wear it with confidence. You need to fill it out mentally as well as physically.”— Jojo Moyes, amazon.com
“That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfeast cereals based on color instead of taste.”— John Green, amazon.com
“Sometimes people are beautiful. Not in looks. Not in what they say. Just in what they are.”— Markus Zusak, amazon.com
“We all reject out of hand the idea that the love of our life may be something light or weightless; we presume our love is what must be, that without it our life would no longer be the same.”— Milan Kundera, amazon.com
“If there is love, smallpox scars are as pretty as dimples. I'll love your face no matter what it looks like. Because it's yours.”— Stephen King, amazon.com
“We’ve gotten so wrapped up in protecting our egos that we’ve forgotten what it means to love freely. Or even how to let ourselves feel. Because the truth is, the kind of love that all of us are aching for isn’t the kind that plays by the rules.”— Heidi Priebe, thoughtcatalog.com
“The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. If in loving them we do not love what they are, but only their potential likeness to ourselves, then we do not love them: we only love the reflection of ourselves we…”— Thomas Merton, amazon.com
“How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: I need this, I need someone to pour myself into.”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com