“In prison, I fell in love with my country. I had loved her before then, but like most young people, my affection was little more than a simple appreciation for the comforts and privileges most Americans enjoyed and took for granted. It wasn't until I had lost America for a time that I realized how m…”— John McCain, amazon.com
“maybe love is realizing that you can live without somebody, but you’d prefer not to. maybe it isn’t that i love you less, but that i’ve finally figured out how to love you better.”— Caitlin Conlon, cgcpoems.tumblr.com
“It’s easy to get complacent and imagine that the narrow band your partner allows you to see (or the only one you’re comfortable looking at) is all there is.”— Tim Kreider, nytimes.com
“My wife is actually somebody who helped me be comfortable with who I am and I just thank God so much that she did because it's so freeing to be comfortable with myself.”— Samira Wiley, bustle.com
“I never asked for our hearts to be perpendicular. I would have gladly settled for parallel.”— Brianna Pastor, wnq-writers.com
“In that moment, love came and it came big, and he did not run as I think a lot of men do.”— Lisa Bonet, net-a-porter.com
“You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness.”— Julia Roberts, theguardian.com
“It turns out love really is a battlefield, and the first casualty is your entire personality.”— Karley Sciortino, vogue.com
“We don’t become better because we acquire new information. We become better because we acquire better loves. We don’t become what we know. Education is a process of love formation. When you go to a school, it should offer you new things to love.”— David Brooks, amazon.com
“Hell isn’t where you go when you die, it’s what you become when everything you love has been taken away.”— Alfred Gough, Miles Millar, Sunny, Daniel Wu, imdb.com
“Trust is such a delicate thing, Veil, so easily clouded by love, or hate.”— Michael Taylor, Quinn, Martin Csokas, imdb.com
“I am really grateful—I love what I do. One of my favorite things about it is being able to have an impact on my fans’ lives, and to be there for them—to know that what I’m creating is helping them in some way. Even if it’s just making them feel empowered when they’re getting ready in the morning, he…”— Ariana Grande, coveteur.com
“I’ve never looked at love as something that I need to complete me. I would like to be complete on my own first and fall in love with somebody who is also complete. You can still celebrate and be totally obsessed with each other, but I want to feel a hundred percent myself so that I can love that per…”— Ariana Grande, cosmopolitan.com
“Of course you make mistakes and we all know that marriage is difficult at times. It is about working through it. We have come up against tough times. But we know each other better than anyone else knows us. And we talk. Do we stay together because it is a brand? Of course not. We stay together becau…”— David Beckham, theguardian.com
“The spread of the flames was soft and gentle, like an expert caress, with nothing rough or hurried about it—their only purpose was to warm people's hearts.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“I'll tell you why . . . It's because that box contains the something that was inside you. You didn't know that when you carried it here and gave it to Keiko with your own hands. Now, you'll never get it back.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“When you lose a person you love so much, surviving the loss is difficult.”— Cristiano Ronaldo, latimes.com