“You make me want to live... Not survive; not exist. Live.”— Sarah J. Maas, Aelin Galathynius, amazon.com
“Someone who truly loves you, someone who is truly right for you, will not force you to turn inside yourself and search for what it is about you that is wrong.”— Kim Quindlen, thoughtcatalog.com
“The people you love are just weapons that will be used against you.”— Sarah J. Maas, Rowan Whitethorn, amazon.com
“He had lost her. And she would never, in a thousand lifetimes, let him in again.”— Sarah J. Maas, Chaol Westfall, amazon.com
“The kiss obliterated her. It was like coming home or being born or suddenly finding an entire half of herself that had been missing.”— Sarah J. Maas, amazon.com
“I can't tell if I should be ashamed of wanting to hold you on this day, or grateful that, despite what happened before now, it somehow brought me to you.”— Sarah J. Maas, Celaena Sardothien, amazon.com
“[He] closed his eyes, and took another long breath. And when he opened his eyes, he let her go.”— Sarah J. Maas, amazon.com
“It was like coming home or being born or suddenly finding an entire half of herself that had been missing.”— Sarah J. Maas, amazon.com
“It's never made any difference to me when it came to you. I’d still pick you. I’ll always pick you.”— Sarah J. Maas, amazon.com
“I worry because I care. Gods help me, I know I shouldn't, but I do. So I will always tell you to be careful, because I will always care what happens.”— Sarah J. Maas, Chaol Westfall, amazon.com
“He was done with politics and intrigue. He loved her, and no empire, no king, and no earthly fear would keep him from her. No, if they tried to take her from him, he'd rip the world apart with his bare hands. And for some reason, that didn't terrify him.”— Sarah J. Maas, amazon.com
“I had the idea that people were supposed to love me because I had an interesting mind, a kind heart, and a warm smile. I thought that Lyndon's emphasis on clothes and appearance was the wrong system of values. He used to say that a lot of the people that I met would only see me once, and that the op…”— Lady Bird Johnson, thoughtco.com
“Lyndon loved everybody, and more than half the world is women. I do know that he wanted me the most.”— Lady Bird Johnson, thoughtco.com
“[About her husband, Lyndon B. Johnson]: He was the most outspoken, straightforward, determined person I'd ever encountered. I knew I'd met something remarkable -- but I didn't know quite what.”— Lady Bird Johnson, thoughtco.com
“You cannot remember what you did before him. You cannot even remember what you thought of—as if back then you thought in a different language, the way you cannot remember things from the first nine years of your life.”— Alyssa Vergun, thoughtcatalog.com
“The thing is, loving someone is not always easy. Relationships take work, hard work.”— Molly Burford, thoughtcatalog.com
“Men often wanted Mitchell to be a wife, a muse, a siren, or a star. Instead, they got a genius, and one especially suited to deconstructing their fantasies of her.”— Dan Chiasson, newyorker.com