“I want a tattoo of the first morning we woke up together. I want the memory to hurt.”— Clementine Von Radics, clementinevonradicspoems.tumblr.com
“You taught me that there is such a thing as unconditional love; when you found a way to love me, in the condition I was in.”— William Chapman, williamchapmanwritings.tumblr.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
“Pure love for another person, and what people call romantic love, are two different things. Pure love doesn’t manipulate the relationship to one’s advantage, but romantic love is different. Romantic love contains other elements—the desire to be loved by the other person, for instance. If purely lovi…”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“Here is the truth: It is hard to be in love with someone who is in love someone else. I don’t know how to turn that into poetry.”— Clementine Von Radics, clementinepoetry.us
“It’s funny how you can forget everything except people loving you. Maybe that’s why humans find it so hard getting over love affairs. It’s not the pain they’re getting over, it’s the love.”— Melina Marchetta, amazon.com
“He was in my hair, my eyes, my fingers, my heart. I day-dreamed about what he was doing, thinking, seeing, smelling, feeling. I could not eat for thoughts of him.”— Lisa See, amazon.com
“Love grows from stable relationships, shared experience, loyalty, devotion, trust.”— Richard Wright, amazon.com
“We walk alone through this world, but if we’re lucky, we have a moment of belonging to something, to someone, that sustains us through a lifetime of loneliness.”— Paullina Simons, amazon.com
“I've had some wonderful love affairs and some that didn't work out. I don't want to dwell on that and I don't want to put people down, but I think all the fabulous places I've been, the wonderful things that have happened for me, the great people I've met - that ought to make a story.”— Ella Fitzgerald, ellafitzgerald.com
“And if travel is like love, it is, in the end, mostly because it’s a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful, receptive, in dimmed by familiarity and ready to be transformed. That is why the best trips, like the best love affairs, never really end.”— Pico Iyer, goodreads.com