“There comes a point when you just love someone. Not because they're good, or bad, or anything really. You just love them. It doesn't mean you'll be together forever. It doesn't mean you won't hurt each other. It just mean you love them. Sometimes in spite of who they are, and sometimes because of wh…”— Laurell K. Hamilton, amazon.com
“What was it like to love him? Asked Gratitude. It was like being exhumed, I answered, and brought to life in a flash of brilliance. What was it like to be loved in return? Asked Joy. It was like being seen after a perpetual darkness, I replied. To be heard after a lifetime of silence. What was it li…”— Lang Leav, amazon.com
“I look at you, and I just love you, and it terrifies me. It terrifies me what I would do for you.”— Alexandra Bracken, amazon.com
“I felt like an undeveloped photograph that he was printing, my image rising to the surface under his gaze.”— Janet Fitch, amazon.com
“I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair. Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets. Bread does not nourish me, dawn disrupts me, all day I hunt for the liquid measure of your steps. I hunger for your sleek laugh, your hands the color of a savage harvest, hunger for the pale stones of your f…”— Pablo Neruda, amazon.com
“I’m in love with you because you make me feel safe. It sounds corny and vague. People always talk about feeling safe with someone and you wonder what it even means. I still don’t really know. All I know is that when I’m with you, I feel like I’m clutching a giant thing of pepper spray or reliving a…”— Ryan O'Connell, thoughtcatalog.com
“Since I met you, I've felt abandoned without your nearness; your nearness is all I ever dream of, the only thing.”— Franz Kafka, amazon.com
“I told myself it didn't matter if I never got to be with you. It was enough just to love you.”— Claudia Gray, amazon.com
“I wanted all of her and resented other boys for wanting any part of her.”— Jonathan Franzen, amazon.com
“You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.”— Henrik Ibsen, amazon.com
“Falling so madly in love with you is a tragedy. Nothing in my world will ever seem so beautiful again.”— Michael Faudet, twitter.com
“I... think I live for you...I don't think I even breathe when we're not together, which means, when I see you on Monday morning, it's been like sixty hours since I've taken a breath. That's probably why I'm so crabby, and why I snap at you. All I do when we're apart is think about you, and all I do…”— Rainbow Rowell, amazon.com
“I know that’s weird, but that’s what you love about me. You love how much I love you. Because yes. I love you way too much. More than anyone deserves to be loved. But I can’t help it. You make normal love hard. You make me psycho-love you.”— Colleen Hoover, Tarryn Fisher, amazon.com
“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
“She wanted to say 'I love you like a thunderstorm, like a lion, like a helpless rage'...”— Ken Follett, amazon.com
“I'm afraid to love you. I'm afraid that you'll leave and that I'll go back to being alone again. Only it will be a hundred times worse because I'll know what I'm missing. I can't...I want to be able to love you more than I fear losing you, and I don't know how. Teach me...Please teach me. Don't let…”— Mia Sheridan, amazon.com