“People in love don't see gender, colour or religion. Or age. It's about the other person, the one that you love and who loves you. You don't think of them in terms of a label. You just go with your heart.”— Sam Taylor-Wood, dailymail.co.uk
“But I believe in true love, you know? I don't believe that everybody gets to keep their eyes or not get sick or whatever, but everybody should have true love, and it should last at least as long as your life does.”— John Green, amazon.com
“You want my opinion? We're all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness — and call it love — true love.”— Robert Fulghum, amazon.com
“In the whole entire world, you are the only person, the only person I love or have ever loved. And I love you terribly. Terribly. That’s what’s so awfully, irreducibly real. I can make up anything but I can’t dream that away.”— Tony Kushner, amazon.com
“Love is different. Love is when you are as concerned about someone else’s situation as you are about your own.”— Mitch Albom, amazon.com
“Because, if you could love someone, and keep loving them, without being loved back … then that love had to be real. It hurt too much to be anything else.”— Sarah Cross, amazon.com
“You did something for me I couldn’t do for myself. You loved me for who I am.”— William Chapman, williamchapmanwritings.tumblr.com
“It’s okay to love something a little too much, as long as it’s real to you.”— Gerard Way, goodreads.com
“A profound love between two people involves, after all, the power and chance of doing profound hurt.”— Ursula K. Le Guin, amazon.com
“Finding someone you love and who loves you back is a wonderful, wonderful feeling. But finding a true soul mate is an even better feeling. A soul mate is someone who understands you like no other, loves you like no other, will be there for you forever, no matter what. They say that nothing lasts for…”— Cecelia Ahern, amazon.com
“Love makes you want to be better…But maybe love, real love, also gives you permission to just be the…[person] you are.”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.com
“Real love amounts to withholding the truth, even when you're offered the perfect opportunity to hurt someone's feelings.”— David Sedaris, amazon.com
“There’s unconditional love there. You hear that phrase a lot but it’s real with me and her… She loves me in spite of everything, in spite of myself. She has saved my life more than once. She’s always been there with her love, and it has certainly made me forget the pain for a long time, many times.…”— Johnny Cash, amazon.com
“He did not care if she was heartless, vicious and vulgar, stupid and grasping, he loved her. He would rather have misery with one than happiness with the other.”— W. Somerset Maugham, amazon.com
“Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying you’re friends is easy. Being friends is not.”— David Levithan, amazon.com
“But I believe in true love, you know? I don’t believe that everybody gets to keep their eyes or not get sick or whatever, but everybody should have true love, and it should last at least as long as your life does.”— John Green, amazon.com
“Loving another person is a wonderful thing, and if that love is sincere, no one ends up tossed into a labyrinth. You have to have more faith in yourself.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com