“I love you and I won’t give up on you even if you don’t want me anymore, I’ll always carry you around in my heart.”— Tenari Ioapo, tenari-ioapo.tumblr.com
“It is only when we no longer compulsively need someone that we can have a real relationship with them.”— Anthony Storr, amazon.com
“If you forget everything else about me, please remember this. I walked down that street and I never looked back and I love you. I love you. I love you so much that I shall hate you for ever for today.”— John Fowles, amazon.com
“I can see your face in everything that reminds me of love.”— William Chapman, williamchapmanwritings.tumblr.com
“Too bad people didn’t fall in love at the same pace, at the same time, for the same reasons, and too bad those emotions didn’t move simultaneously. But each act of madness moved at its own pace, one not dependent on the pace of anyone else. It wasn’t like tandem skydiving, where you were connected a…”— Eric Jerome Dickey, 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
“Every minute you spend with someone gives them a part of your life and takes part of theirs.”— Ally Condie, amazon.com
“I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast. And these two people in the water, trying to hold onto each other, holding on as hard as they can, but in the end it’s just too much. The current’s too strong. They’ve got to let go, drift apart. That’s how it is with us.…”— Kazuo Ishiguro, amazon.com
“Okay, we didn’t work, and all memories to tell you the truth aren’t good. But sometimes there were good times. Love was good. I loved your crooked sleep beside me and never dreamed afraid. There should be stars for great wars like ours.”— Sandra Cisneros, sandracisneros.com
“Don’t ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.”— Toni Morrison, amazon.com
“I love you. It’s insane, actually. But I love you. What am I suppose to do?”— Mario Benedetti, twitter.com
“Here is the truth: It is hard to be in love with someone who is in love someone else. I don’t know how to turn that into poetry.”— Clementine Von Radics, clementinepoetry.us
“I’m looking for selfishness. Perfect selfishness. Like, say I tell you I want to eat strawberry shortcake. And you stop everything you’re doing and run out and buy it for me. And you come back out of breath and get down on your knees and hold this strawberry shortcake out to me. And I say I don’t wa…”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“Sometimes it was hard to express how much you loved someone. You said the words, but you could never quite capture the depth of it. You could never quite hold someone tightly enough.”— Diane Chamberlain, amazon.com
“‘I’m your girl,’ she said in the dark. 'Your girl. No matter what I’m always your girl.’”— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com