“Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.”— Andy Warhol, amazon.com
“Fall in love with a guy who makes an effort. The guy who doesn’t throw in the towel when things get hard, who doesn’t storm away and run when you have a disagreement. A guy who is willing to sit down and talk through shit, even when it’s uncomfortable or hard. A guy who is always honest, always dire…”— Jacob Geers, thoughtcatalog.com
“One of the remarkable things about love is that, despite very irritating people writing poems and songs about how pleasant it is, it really is quite pleasant.”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.com
“I can read your eyes. I can read your heart. You are going to fall in love. And suffer.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“Oh, my heart is a thoroughbred I can't sleep in my bed Everything is burning up inside me I need something I can feel Cigarettes and a driving wheel and Oh my god, when you cross your legs beside me”— Mason Jennings, amazon.com
“Spinning on that dizzy edge I kissed her face and kissed her head And dreamed of all the different ways I had To make her glow”— The Cure, amazon.com
“When I was young my mama told me She said 'Child take your time. Don't fall in love too quickly, before you know your mind.' She held me 'round the shoulders, In a voice so soft and kind She said 'Love can make you happy and love can rob you blind.' Here in California fruit hangs heavy on the vine.…”— Kate Wolf, amazon.com
“The first time I ever saw your laughter break loose inside and tumble out to me My heart knew it had found what it was after and it came so easily. We should know After all the years of the hard and lonely times Now our days go by like best friends’ story lines, yours and mine”— Kate Wolf, amazon.com
“I can't talk, so I stutter what I probably shouldn't say I'm becoming too honest for my own good these days I can't talk, I can't breathe cause your tongue's in my mouth I can't find my bra, I think it's somewhere in your couch”— Brenda Weiler, amazon.com
“I like to think that somewhere out there, on a planet exactly like ours, two people exactly like you and me made totally different choices and that somewhere, we're still together. That's enough for me.”— Iain Thomas, amazon.ca
“I'm all out of midnight phone calls and flowers sent to your door. I'm out of throwing letters off fire escapes and drawing a cathedral in the sand. I'm out of spray-painting your name on freeway overpasses. I'm low on cute names given between blankets at 9am. I've got no dramatic displays of public…”— Iain Thomas, amazon.ca
“We could not have helped it, dissolving back into kisses, into resurrections, sprinting like fawn and satyr to our room, wishing the disdainful doe-eyed desk clerk gone when, past noon, we’d stride out again to gambol and ogle and gawk, eat and drink, kiss and talk, our bodies opening and flaunting…”— GrayJacobik, narrativemagazine.com
“did she love you? only as an extension of herself. what else can love be?”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“Given the right psychological conditions, a person could fall in love with anyone.”— Miranda July, amazon.com
“"If I never love anyone again the way I have loved you" he said, "that will be a relief."”— Mia Hollow, twitter.com
“Remember how we unhinged? Remember all the names our bodies called each other? Remember how afterwards, the steam rose from us, like a pair of smiling ghosts?”— Cristin O'Keefe, muzzlemagazine.com
“I do not want to look for a mad passionate affair. Not because I’m frightened but because, please believe me, I do not want a lover. I want a friend.”— Anne Sexton, amazon.com
“One day, whether you are 14, 28 or 65 you will stumble upon someone who will start a fire in you that cannot die. However, the saddest, most awful truth you will ever come to find–– is they are not always with whom we spend our lives.”— Beau Taplin, goodreads.com