“I just hope that one day—preferably when we're both blind drunk—we can talk about it.”— J. D. Salinger, amazon.com
“I wanted to crawl into her chest and kiss everything that she'd thought I'd hate.”— Unknown, thatkindofwoman.tumblr.com
“It’s your flaws I want to taste. Your crooked mouth. The way you smell after being out all day. The lump in your throat. Your shaky hands. Your morning breath. Your prickly legs. Your pimpled politeness. Your tangled hair. I don’t want to be able to run my fingers through you easily. It’s no fun wri…”— Lora Mathis, loramathis.com
“Your name is the strongest positive and negative connotation in any language it either lights me up or leaves me aching for days.”— Rupi Kaur, amazon.com
“I could build a future between your thighs then look into your eyes trying to find my own private history channel with a life long documentary on whether or not this was meant to be and I don’t want to turn any of this into poetry but you’re so beautiful flowers turn their heads to smell you. And wh…”— Shane Koyczan, amazon.com
“oh god it’s wonderful to get out of bed and drink too much coffee and smoke too many cigarettes and love you so much”— Frank O'Hara, amazon.com
“I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it's so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.”— Dorothy Parker, amazon.com
“It's such a liability to love another person...it's like playing catch with grenades.”— Janet Fitch, amazon.com
“I could spend every day getting to know you all over again...and I don't think I'd get sick of it.”— Colleen Hoover, Tarryn Fisher, amazon.com
“...those are the two things you want to do most when you love somebody: to save them (sometimes from themselves) and to be near them always.”— Francois Lelord, amazon.com
“Those are two things you want to do most when you love somebody: to save them (sometimes from themselves) and to be near them always.”— Francois Lelord, amazon.com
“You know, it's quite a job starting to love somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment, in the very beginning, when you have to jump across a precipice: if you think about it you don't do it. I know I'll never jump again.”— Jean-Paul Sartre, amazon.com
“You swallowed everything, like distance. Like the sea, like time. In you everything sank!”— Pablo Neruda, amazon.com
“I wish I knew how to love someone without killing myself. How to mend hearts without breaking my own. How to Kiss and not create bruises.”— Michelle K., michellekpoems.tumblr.com
“It’s funny about love, [she] said. The more you love someone, the less [they] like you back. That’s very true, Grandmother observed. And so what do you do? You go on loving, [she] said threateningly. You love harder and harder.”— Tove Jansson, amazon.com