“I don't want to be a sweetheart. I want to be the fucking love of your life.”— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, amazon.com
“I want to talk with you forever. I remember every word you’ve ever said to me. If only I could visit you as a foreigner goes into a new country, learn the language of you, wander past all borders into every private and secret place, I would stay forever. I would become a citizen of you. You would sa…”— Lisa Kleypas, amazon.com
“I was in love with everything—I wanted to look with love at the angry people so that their eyes would be forced to respond; and I wanted to bring gifts to the envious and tell them that I am worthless.”— Egon Schiele, amazon.com
“I spent too much time trying to mold myself to fit the romantic ideals of humans who proved themselves unworthy of that effort, and I regret it. Never again will I be with someone who is unwilling to accept me as I am, or who has any desire to mold me into something that makes me uncomfortable. Most…”— Samantha Irby, amazon.com
“I think perhaps love comes from finding someone you feel utterly comfortable with, someone who makes you comfortable with yourself. It’s like…finding yourself, or maybe it’s like finding the other part of yourself.”— Candice Proctor, amazon.com
“She wants to know if I love her, that's all anyone wants from anyone else, not love itself but the knowledge that love is there...”— Jonathan Safran Foer, amazon.com
“But my favorite thing of all: I like you ‘cause you like me. I don’t know - I think that says a lot about how great you are as a person.”— Sam Esmail, Dell, Justin Long, amazon.com
“What I want is for the two of us to meet somewhere by chance one day, like, passing on the street, or getting on the same bus.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.”— Unknown, amazon.com
“I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it — to be fed so much love I couldn’t take any more. Just once.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?”— Tennessee Williams, amazon.com
“When someone remembers something you've said during one of your conversations that you forgot yourself, keep them, don't let them go.”— Gia Sison, twitter.com
“It's life-changing meeting someone who helps you embrace your flaws. It's a kind of love that permeates deeply & you learn to love yourself better.”— Nat Dabuet, twitter.com
“I have slept with you all night long while the dark earth spins with the living and the dead, and on waking suddenly in the midst of the shadow my arm encircled your waist. Neither night nor sleep could separate us.”— Pablo Neruda, amazon.com
“At night I dream that you and I are two plants that grew together, roots entwined, and that you know the earth and the rain like my mouth, since we are made of earth and rain.”— Pablo Neruda, amazon.com
“But I love your feet only because they walked upon the earth and upon the wind and upon the waters, until they found me.”— Pablo Neruda, amazon.com
“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep…”— Pablo Neruda, amazon.com