“Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge — and has to content oneself with dreaming.”— Paul Gaugin, amazon.com
“I’d rather not love anyone, he thought. I’d rather have fun. And fun, his good side said to him, you have no fun when you do not love.”— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com
“Sometimes I hate you, sometimes I hate myself, but always I miss you.”— David Henry Hwang, amazon.com
“I need you to know that no matter what happens, it was worth it to me. Being with you, loving you. It was all worth it.”— Jenny Han, amazon.com
“The first night living together, we piled our suitcases in the corner; warmed up a frozen pizza, and sat crisscross applesauce under a broken coffee table, drank water in paper cups, and tried to imagine how our lives would grow within these walls. We were two lovers living on the floor, bare rooms…”— Schuyler Peck, schuylerpeck.tumblr.com
“Love is the same as being lost. Except you don’t care that you’re lost.”— Jedediah Berry, amazon.com
“It’s not that you should never love something so much that it can control you. It’s that you need to love something that much so you can never be controlled. It’s not a weakness. It’s your best strength.”— Patrick Ness, amazon.com
“Love is strange. It’s an acute kind of loneliness, isn’t it? That constant yearning for the other person. That hunger. I didn’t think it was possible but there it was. It’s not pleasure but pain.”— Candy Gourlay, amazon.com
“I don’t believe in unconditional love. In fact, I think it’s unwise. My love has had a condition that if ever my love keeps you from you, from your growing, and realizing your personal potential, then I must step aside. No one has the right to stand in the way of another’s joy, development, or uniqu…”— Leo Buscaglia, peopleandpossibilities.com
“There were thousands and thousands of forms of joy in the world, but that all were essentially one and the same, namely, the joy of being able to love.”— Michael Ende, amazon.com
“I did not love you out or boredom or loneliness or caprice. I loved you because the desire for you was stronger than any happiness.”— Alessandro Baricco, amazon.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, goodreads.com
“I would rather marry a good man, a man of mind, with a hope and bright prospects ahead for position, fame and power than to marry all the houses, gold and bones in the world.”— Mary Todd Lincoln, goodreads.com
“Being loved for who you are, is as good as love can get.”— William Chapman, williamchapmanwritings.tumblr.com
“They were in love, happy, content; but why was it so painful being in love, why was there so much pain in happiness?”— Virginia Woolf, amazon.com
“It isn’t normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.”— Abraham Maslow, goodreads.com
“I wish I had the courage not to fight and doubt everything. I wish, just once, I could say: ‘This. This is good enough.‘”— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com