“You will always fall in love, and it will always be like having your throat cut.”— Catherynne M. Valente, amazon.com
“There are two kinds of love…in the safe kind you look for someone who’s exactly like you. It’s what most folks settle for. But then there’s the other kind of love. Everyone’s born with a ragged edge, and some folks crave that piece that’s a perfect fit. You’ll search for it forever, if you have to.…”— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com
“I have a strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate, it’s apathy - it’s not giving a damn.”— Leo Buscaglia, amazon.com
“Love is strange. It’s an acute kind of loneliness, isn’t it? That constant yearning for the other person. That hunger. I didn’t think it was possible but there it was. It’s not pleasure but pain.”— Candy Gourlay, amazon.com
“I don’t believe in unconditional love. In fact, I think it’s unwise. My love has had a condition that if ever my love keeps you from you, from your growing, and realizing your personal potential, then I must step aside. No one has the right to stand in the way of another’s joy, development, or uniqu…”— Leo Buscaglia, peopleandpossibilities.com
“I hope you discover that love is both a feeling and an action, like light is both a particle and a wave.”— Iain Thomas, goodreads.com
“I didn’t want the easy kind of love, I wanted the crazy love, the kind of love that created and destroyed all at the same time.”— Julie Murphy, amazon.com
“Love isn’t a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like struggle. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.”— Fred Rogers, amazon.com
“Yes, I was infatuated with you. I am, still. No one has ever heightened such a keen capacity of physical sensation in me. I cut you out because I couldn’t stand being a passing fancy. Before I give my body, I must give my mind, my dreams. And you weren’t having any of those.”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com
“Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can’t even think straight.”— Marilyn French, amazon.com