“nearness, n.: Even if you can't touch its walls, know the house will shelter you; even if you can't see its ceiling, know my love protects.”— David Levithan, twitter.com
“nomenclature, n.: I pay attention to how you introduce me, and get far too much satisfaction when you call me yours in some way.”— David Levithan, twitter.com
“I can't say how every time I ever put my arms around you I felt that I was home.”— Ernest Hemingway, nytimes.com
“Lately I’ve been thinking about who I want to love, and how I want to love, and why I want to love the way I want to love, and what I need to learn to love that way, and who I need to become to become the kind of love I want to be…….and when I break it all down, when I whittle it into a single breat…”— Andrea Gibson, wordsfortheyear.com
“Where the heart is really attached, I know very well how little one can be pleased with the attention of anybody else.”— Jane Austen, amazon.com
“Because I was right. For the two of us, home isn't a place. It's a person. And we're finally home.”— Stephanie Perkins, amazon.com
“More than anything, all I have ever wanted is to be close to someone. More than anything, all I have ever wanted is to feel as if I wasn't alone.”— James Frey, amazon.com
“I don't think I have ever loved anyone in my life, not really — just needed them, wanted them to love me to possess me — to become such a part of someone that I could lose my frightened self...”— Anne Sexton, amazon.com
“It's a summer day, and I want to be wanted more than anything else in the world.”— Frank O'Hara, amazon.com
“I don’t want to be with a [person] whose heart belongs to somebody else. Just once, I want to be somebody’s first choice.”— Jenny Han, amazon.com
“So if you look for love, what you will find is love. But if you want to belong to someone, and you want someone to belong to you, you should look for a person.”— C. Joybell C., thoughtcatalog.com
“So if you look for love, what you will find is love. But if you want to belong to someone, and you want someone to belong to you, you should look for a person.”— C. Joybell C., thoughtcatalog.com