“And I need to see you, but I don’t see you, and I need to hear you, but I don’t hear you, and I need to touch you, but I don’t touch you, and I need to think about you, and that is all I do.”— Charles Bukowski, thelovejournals.com
“I was glad I wasn’t in love, that I wasn’t happy with the world. I like being at odds with everything. People in love often become edgy, dangerous. They lose their sense of perspective. They lose their sense of humor. They become nervous, psychotic bores. They even become killers.”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“I certainly do care for you...less than you are always thinking and much more than you are ever knowing.”— Gertrude Stein, amazon.com
“THE human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures,”— Charlotte Brontë, amazon.com
“she asked ‘you are in love what does love look like’ to which i replied 'like everything i’ve ever lost come back to me’”— Nayyirah Waheed, amazon.com
“There is no perfect ending to a relationship. No magic formula. Just a silent scream as they rip your f*cking heart out.”— Michael Faudet, amazon.com
“I don’t believe in love at first sight but I do believe in seeing someone from across the room and knowing instantly that they’re going to matter to you.”— Ryan O’Connell, thoughtcatalog.com
“But some day sooner or later our passion would have cooled — inevitably — it's the way with everything human.”— Gustave Flaubert, amazon.com
“There's a pleasure to loving someone even when you know there's no chance in them loving you back. The pain I felt lets me know I was still alive.”— Gabrielle Zevin, amazon.com
“But my heart is agitated, it has its dreams, it gets emotional, and it's become passionate...It asks things of me, and it keeps me from sleeping many nights...”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“She wanted to say 'I love you like a thunderstorm, like a lion, like a helpless rage'...”— Ken Follett, amazon.com
“When I sit near you, my hands suddenly become alien things and I don't know where to put them or what they usually do, like this is the first time I've ever had hands and maybe they go in my pockets and maybe they don't.”— Iain Thomas, amazon.com
“I feel like a part of my soul has loved you since the beginning of everything. Maybe we’re from the same star.”— Emery Allen, emeryallen.tumblr.com