“He was so easy to love. He made you feel safe. When he held your hand it was like you were flying. When he kissed your face you felt like you could fly. He made crossing the road feel like an adventure; with his hand on the small of your back. He laughed at things easily, he was soft, gentle, kind.…”— Sue Zhao, blossomfully.tumblr.com
“To love another is something like prayer and can’t be planned, you just fall.”— Anne Sexton, amazon.com
“I loved you the same way that I learned how to ride a bike: Scared But reckless with no training wheels or elbow pads so my scars can tell the story of how I fell for you.”— Rudy Francisco, genius.com
“My friends complain why I still talk about you as often as my palms cramp from writing about you so much.”— Sade Andria Zabala, thoughtcatalog.com
“You know you’re in love the moment you can touch the stars without reaching.”— Melisa M. Hamling, amazon.com
“It’s hard to say how it happens. How all of the bits of me – even the broken ones – start to tumble. I think it’s my toes that go first. Next – my legs and the hallow spaces behind my ribs. And then my arms all the way down through my wrist bones to the tips of my fingers. My lips part and I realize…”— Autumn Doughton, amazon.com
“He makes me want to knock down all the walls I’ve put up and let him inside. And it scares the shit out of me.”— Kandi Steiner, amazon.com
“Falling in love slowly is like awakening one morning to find that the sun has risen in the west.”— Kim Wright, amazon.com
“I remembered something my dad once wrote me about falling in love. He said the phrase was apt because falling is exactly what it can feel like, as if you've finally allowed yourself to let go of some safety bar you didn't even know you were clinging to, and suddenly you find yourself tumbling toward…”— Mark Peter Hughes, amazon.com
“Falling in love is a subtle process, a connection sparked by attraction, tested by compatibility, and forged by memory.”— Jay Bell, amazon.com
“Love is like an undertow. You can fight it with every ounce of energy you have; it is far more powerful than you, and it inevitably sweeps you under. Once love takes hold, it remains. Love is what remains when life finds its ending. It is the bridge that connects where we have been, where we now res…”— Nancy Ann Healy, amazon.com
“Falling in love is like falling from a high cliff into a warm silky sea, the falling is like flying and the landing is like a glimpse of the divine.”— Chloe Thurlow, amazon.com
“There's not protocol for falling in love with someone. There's no game plan to tell you when it's appropriate to do certain things, say other things.”— Lori L. Otto, amazon.com
“Love grows with every returned smile, every second of communal silence and every word exchanged. Unconditional love is built and when it’s finished nothing destroys it.”— Sarah Noffke, amazon.com
“It’s a lot like a roller coaster. There are lots of twists and turns, and some of the hills are a bit scary, but you stay on the ride just to feel the thrill of that fall again.”— Nancy Ann Healy, amazon.com
“You don't feel yourself falling in love, like it's a journey, a process; on the contrary, it hits you like a sudden ague, a fever, the realization that your life will never be the same again.”— Chloe Thurlow, amazon.com
“The term fell in love is apt, because it implies there is pain in the discovery. I didn’t land softly in love.”— N.B. Roberts, amazon.com
“Love is the color of spring sunshine muted through old windows. Love has a taste, a texture - dark chocolate with pistachios; a sound - wind chimes echoing from a distant hill; a rhythm - the tango, obviously.”— Chloe Thurlow, amazon.com
“It’s not called ‘falling in love’ for no reason. It’s scary! It’s like jumping out of a plane with no parachute. Or bungee-jumping without your cord attached. Or hang-gliding with only one wing.”— Andrea Lochen, amazon.com