“There is a primal reassurance in being touched, in knowing that someone else, someone close to you, wants to be touching you. There is a bone-deep security that goes with the brush of a human hand, a silent, reflex-level affirmation that someone is near, that someone cares.”— Jim Butcher, amazon.com
“I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections and the truth of imagination — what the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth — whether it existed before or not.”— John Keats, en.wikiquote.org
“I can't sleep, I can't eat, I can't do anything but think about him. At night I dream of him, all day I wait to see him, and when I do see him my heart turns over and I think I will faint with desire.”— Philippa Gregory, amazon.com
“The feel of her head against his shoulder, of her familiar body, sent a shock of emotion over him. His arms holding her had a tendency to tighten around her.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“Some people have never been made good love to, or don't remember, or haven't been taught how, and cheat their lives out of the pleasure we each can make in one another”— Rebecca Dinerstein, amazon.com
“You fell in love with someone because of the tilt of his smile, or because he could make you laugh, or in this case, because he made you believe you were the only one who could save him.”— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com
“She is a living fire, such as I have never seen; incidentally, a fire that, despite everything, burns only for him. At the same time she is extremely tender, brave, intelligent, and sacrifices everything, or if you prefer, acquires everything by sacrifice.”— Franz Kafka, amazon.com
“I want you to make a list of all of your favorite things, and I want to be on it.”— Tahereh Mafi, amazon.com
“I’m here not because I am supposed to be here, or because I’m trapped here, but because I’d rather be with you than anywhere else in the world.”— Richard Bach, amazon.com
“She loved him not only in spite of but because he himself was incapable of love.”— William Faulkner, amazon.com
“People fall in and out of love all the time, don’t they? I wonder how they manage it.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“It is three at night. I have something to say. You are so valuable. You shine out. You are a magic star. You are a body of blood made beautiful. How I admire, sit back and adore you. How thirsty I am for that. How you feed me.”— Anne Sexton, amazon.com
“One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can…”— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, goodreads.com
“We assume that others show their love in the same way that we do and if they don’t follow that equation, we worry that the love is not there.”— Amy Przeworski, psychologytoday.com
“Her face was sad and lovely with bright things in it, bright eyes and a bright passionate mouth – but there was an excitement in her voice that men who cared for her found difficult to forget...”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com