“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.”— Victor Hugo, yourtango.com
“So how does it happen, great love? Nobody knows... but what I can tell you is that it happens in the blink of an eye. One moment you're enjoying your life, and the next you're wondering how you ever lived without them.”— Kevin Bisch, Alex "Hitch" Hitchens, Will Smith, imdb.com
“You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.”— William Faulkner, amazon.com
“One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.”— Oscar Wilde, thoughtcatalog.com
“You don't have a choice if you get hurt in this world, but you do have a say in who hurts you. I like my choices, I hope she likes hers.”— Ansel Elgort, Augustus Waters, amazon.com
“It was first love. There's no love like that. I don't wish it on a soul. I don't hate anyone enough.”— Carol Matthau, amazon.com
“We love as we learn to distinguish a separate "you" and me. Love is our attempt to assuage the terror and the isolation of the separateness.”— Judith Viorst, amazon.com
“Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.”— Iris Murdoch, amazon.com
“If I have learned anything in this long life of mine, it is this: in love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are.”— Kristin Hannah, amazon.com