“You can’t save people, you can only be there for them as they save themselves.”— Farah Ayaad, thoughtcatalog.com
“I just want someone who will love me. when I do not know how to love myself.”— Beau Taplin, afadthatlastsforever.tumblr.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
“I have never felt the touch of falling snow, she said, but like love, I know it exists.”— Michael Faudet, amazon.com
“To have her here in bed with me, breathing on me, her hair in my mouth — I count that something of a miracle.”— Henry Miller, amazon.com
“‘But I like you.’ He cleared his throat. ‘I like you first and second and third.’”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“Love, being in love, isn’t a constant thing. It doesn’t always flow at the same strength. It’s not always like a river in flood. It’s more like the sea. It has tides, it ebbs and flows. The thing is, when love is real, whether it’s ebbing or flowing, it’s always there, it never goes away. And that’s…”— Aidan Chambers, amazon.com
“‘I’m your girl,’ she said in the dark. 'Your girl. No matter what I’m always your girl.’”— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com
“But in my case, the only thing that made sense of the world was you, and without you the world will seem…garbled and tragic [and] malfunctioning…”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.com
“She has been waiting for you, just as long as you have been waiting for her. Find her. Keep her. Live for her. A woman like her comes once in a lifetime. She will carry your pain, and teach you how to love again.”— R. M. Drake, sassymikee.wordpress.com
“Someday you’ll find someone special again. People who’ve been in love once usually do. It’s in their nature.”— Nicholas Sparks, amazon.com
“I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.”— Franz Kafka, amazon.com
“I understand how easy it would be to lose yourself in the heart of another. It‘s frightening. Exhilarating. An ocean with no lifeguard.”— Sarah Ockler, amazon.com
“Just for the record, she still loves you. She wouldn’t bother to torture you if she didn’t.”— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com
“And I love everything on this changing, burning earth, but I am most grateful to you.”— Katherine Catmull, amazon.com