“You know you're in love with somebody when you wake up next to them, comfortable despite your breath smelling like the week-old water at the bottom of a vase, when you are terribly excited to see them, to talk to them again, having missed them after all that sleep.”— Elliot Perlman, amazon.com
“People in love don't see gender, colour or religion. Or age. It's about the other person, the one that you love and who loves you. You don't think of them in terms of a label. You just go with your heart.”— Sam Taylor-Wood, dailymail.co.uk
“When they were together like that, they had been their own private universe, bounded just by themselves, a population of two. They were the world, and the world was them.”— Patrick Ness, amazon.com
“'I hope we'll get lucky enough to grow old together. You see them on the street, those couples who've been married so long you can't tell them apart. How'd that be?’ ‘I'd love to look like you,’ I said, 'I'd love to be you.'”— Paula McLain, amazon.com
“Your relationship should be a safe haven not a battlefield. The world is hard enough already.”— Unknown, positiveoutlooksblog.com
“But what happens when you don't find that right person? Do you just spend the rest of your life in a relationship where the conversation isn't great, everything isn't perfect, but it is nice and sweet?”— Miranda Kenneally, amazon.com
“Now listen here, I'm going to give you all a piece of advice because it's too late for this guy. Here's what I recommend to you. If you have someone that you think is the one...take that person and travel around the world. Buy a plane ticket for the two of you to travel all around the world and go t…”— Bill Murray, parade.com
“I don't like to feel so crazy about someone. I don't like to feel like my happiness is so tied up in another person.”— Gabrielle Zevin, amazon.com
“I never expected her. Sometimes people sneak up on you and suddenly you don't know you ever lived without them.”— Elle Kennedy, amazon.com
“And it was the kind of kiss that I could never tell my friends about out loud. It was the kind of kiss that made me know that I was never so happy in my whole life.”— Stephen Chbosky, amazon.com
“I know what it is to love so greatly you can think of nothing else.”— George R. R. Martin, amazon.com
“I just want you to be happy. If that’s with me or with someone else or with nobody. I just want you to be happy.”— John Green, David Levithan, amazon.com
“...maybe that’s worse. Not letting ourselves be loved because we’re too afraid of giving ourselves to someone we might lose.”— Thomas Rickman, Morrie Schwartz, Jack Lemmon, amazon.com
“Whoever gives nothing has nothing. The greatest misfortune is not to be unloved, but not to love.”— Albert Camus, amazon.com
“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved — loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.”— Victor Hugo, goodreads.com