“I’m not against sentimentality. I think you need it. I mean, I don’t think you get a true picture of people without it in writing… It’s a kind of poetry, it’s an emotional poetry, and, to bring it back to the literary scene, I don’t think anything is true that doesn’t have it, that doesn’t have poet…”— Nelson Algren, amazon.com
“I have a million things to talk to you about. All I want in this world is you. I want to see you and talk. I want the two of us to begin everything from the beginning.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“I look at you and I would rather look at you than all the portraits in the world…”— Frank O’Hara, amazon.com
“I’ve loved another with all my heart and soul; and to me, this has always been enough.”— Nicholas Sparks, amazon.com
“I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.”— Charles Dickens, amazon.com
“When I am old and alone, I will remember that I once held something truly beautiful.”— Joe Dunthorne, amazon.com