“I thought leaving you would be easy, just walking out the door. But I keep getting pinned against it with my legs around your waist. It's like my lips want you like my lungs want air, it's just what they were born to do.”— Clementine Von Radics, clementinepoetry.us
“I want to get to know you once for all, and I want you to know me. And then say good-bye. I believe it's always best to get to know people just before leaving them. I've noticed how you've been looking at me. There has been a continual look of expectation in your eyes, and I can't endure that. That'…”— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, amazon.com
“...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
“Loving someone who cannot love you the same way in return is not weakness. It’s one of the most courageous things you’ll ever do. You are putting your armour at their feet and you are saying ‘I will not fight you in this. I have loved you and that means that I have already won.”— Azra Tabassum, 5000letters.tumblr.com
“This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com