“I want a doomed love. I want streets at night, wind and rain, no one wondering where I am.”— Michael Cunningham, amazon.com
“Desire is an appetite, quickly sated. Longing is a wound, an opening in the heart or the spirit. Whatever the cause, whatever the duration, it almost always leaves a scar.”— Philip Sington, amazon.com
“All I want is someone decent. You know? Kind. Good. Like in all those love stories I’m such an expert on. It can’t just be fiction. It can’t. Those guys are out there, I know it. I just can’t find them.”— Sarah Dessen, amazon.com
“I cannot let you burn me up, nor can I resist you. No mere human can stand in a fire and not be consumed.”— A.S. Byatt, amazon.com
“I’m happy when I feel your presence in my life…I can never write often or much, but I want you to trust me, and I want to press you against me.”— Albert Camus, amazon.com
“I want to take her into my arms and hold her tight. But at the same time, I know that is the exact opposite of what she wants. She wants to be free, and all I want is to hold her tight against me.”— Beth Revis, amazon.com
“That’s when you know for sure somebody loves you. They figure out what you need and they give it to you — without you asking.”— Adriana Trigiani, amazon.com
“You can love a person without wanting to be with them. Just like you can want to be with someone before you love them.”— Jamie McGuire, amazon.com
“There are things you can’t get anywhere, but we dream they can be found in other people.”— David Lynch, amazon.com
“I want you next to me, in my bed, your clothes making friends with my floor. Love me hard enough so we wake up the neighbors.”— Nishat Ahmed, 5000letters.tumblr.com
“Have you ever lost someone you love and wanted one more conversation, one more chance to make up for the time when you thought they would be here forever? If so, then you know you can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.”— Mitch Albom, amazon.com
“It’s bullsh*t to think of friendship and romance as being different. They’re not. They’re just variations of the same love. Variations of the same desire to be close.”— David Levithan, amazon.com
“You cannot convince people to love you. This is an absolute rule. No one will ever give you love because you want him or her to give it. Real love moves freely in both directions. Don’t waste your time on anything else.”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com
“‘Just because someone desires you, it does not mean that they value you. Read it over. Again. Let those words resonate in your mind.’”— Nayyirah Waheed, goodreads.com
“Just because someone desires you, it does not mean that they value you. Again. Let those words resonate your mind.”— Nayyirah Waheed, amritsagooblog.wordpress.com
“I want you to come live with me, and die with me, and everything with me.”— Vladimir Nabokov, amazon.com