“You cannot pick and choose what parts of her to love. Just as you cannot pick which parts of me you accept.”— Sarah J. Maas, amazon.com
“I think you still love me, but we can’t escape the fact that I’m not enough for you. I knew this was going to happen. So I’m not blaming you for falling in love with another woman. I’m not angry, either. I should be, but I’m not. I just feel pain. A lot of pain. I thought I could imagine how much th…”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“I’ve learned a lot this year.. I learned that things don’t always turn our the way you planned, or the way you think they should. And I’ve learned that there are things that go wrong that don’t always get fixed or get put back together the way they were before. I’ve learned that some broken things s…”— Jennifer Weiner, amazon.com
“I exist as I am, that is enough, If no other in the world be aware I sit content, And if each and all be aware I sit content. One world is aware, and by the far the largest to me, and that is myself, And whether I come to my own today or in ten thousand or ten million years, I can cheerfully take it…”— Walt Whitman, amazon.com
“Do I contradict myself? Very well then....I contradict myself; I am large....I contain multitudes.”— Walt Whitman, amazon.com
“You did something for me I couldn’t do for myself. You loved me for who I am.”— William Chapman, williamchapmanwritings.tumblr.com
“She loved him not only in spite of but because he himself was incapable of love.”— William Faulkner, amazon.com
“One of the reasons why we crave love, and seek it so desperately, is that love is the only cure for loneliness, and shame, and sorrow. But some feelings sink so deep into the heart that only loneliness can help you find them again. Some truths about yourself are so painful that only shame can help y…”— Gregory David Roberts, amazon.com
“Those who love you are not fooled by mistakes you have made or dark images you hold about yourself. They remember your beauty when you feel ugly; your wholeness when you are broken; your innocence when you feel guilty; and your purpose when you are confused.”— Alan Cohen, goodreads.com
“If you want to fall in love, you can’t hold everything in. You have to open up, take that risk. You’ll be hurt sometimes, but if you don’t, you’ll never be happy. The one you find may not be the kind…you expected to fall in love with, but it won’t matter, you’ll love…”— Jean M. Auel, amazon.com
“When I say, I love you, it’s not because I want you or because I can’t have you. It has nothing to do with me. I love what you are, what you do, how you try. I’ve seen your kindness and your strength. I’ve seen the best and the worst of you. And I understand with perfect clarity exactly what you are…”— Joss Whedon, imdb.com
“In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.”— Tennessee Williams, amazon.com
“I’m with you. No matter what else you have in your head I’m with you and I love you.”— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com
“That’s what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you’re not so lovable.”— Deb Caletti, amazon.com
“Love makes you want to be better…But maybe love, real love, also gives you permission to just be the…[person] you are.”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.com
“People always fall in love with the most perfect aspects of each other's personalities. Who wouldn't? Anybody can love the most wonderful parts of another person. But that's not the clever trick. The really clever trick is this: Can you accept the flaws? Can you look at your partner's faults honestl…”— Elizabeth Gilbert, amazon.com
“But I just wanted her in my life. I had fallen in love, even if she was still finding her way.”— Randy Pausch, amazon.com
“Anyone can love a thing because. That’s as easy as putting a penny in your pocket. But to love something despite. To know the flaws and love them too. That is rare and pure and perfect.”— Patrick Rothfuss, amazon.com
“I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor it’s coming with all my heart.”— Alice Walker, amazon.com
“I don’t want you to change…. I’m not in love with who you could be, or who you used to be, or who the world says you should be. I'm in love with you, right now. Just like this.”— Colleen Hoover, amazon.com