“But she was not made for any man, And she never will be all mine.”— Edna St. Vincent Millay, amazon.com
“The feel of her head against his shoulder, of her familiar body, sent a shock of emotion over him. His arms holding her had a tendency to tighten around her.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.”— Leo Tolstoy, amazon.com
“Here is the truth: It is hard to be in love with someone who is in love someone else. I don’t know how to turn that into poetry.”— Clementine Von Radics, clementinepoetry.us
“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’m looking for selfishness. Perfect selfishness. Like, say I tell you I want to eat strawberry shortcake. And you stop everything you’re doing and run out and buy it for me. And you come back out of breath and get down on your knees and hold this strawberry shortcake out to me. And I say I don’t wa…”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“Sometimes it was hard to express how much you loved someone. You said the words, but you could never quite capture the depth of it. You could never quite hold someone tightly enough.”— Diane Chamberlain, amazon.com
“…At night I dream that you and I are two plants that grew together, roots entwined…”— Pablo Neruda, amazon.com
“I want to buy you a cup of coffee on your best and worst days, write you notes and leave them scattered around your house, show up on your porch in the pouring rain with my ukulele just to say hello, send you postcards brimming with adventures and run away with you for weekends with no maps. I want…”— Lily Catlin Garcia, lilycatlingarcia.tumblr.com
“Happily ever after, or even just together ever after, is not cheesy…It’s the noblest, like, the most courageous thing two people can shoot for.”— Rainbow Rowell, amazon.com
“It’s hard to know everything about people close to you, even the people you love the most.”— Kiera Cass, amazon.com
“Some people will never fit into your life, no matter how much you want them to.”— Unknown, amazon.com
“Some will love you for who you are; others will love the mask you wear.”— Garrett Nickelsen, amazon.com
“I think you know you’ve found someone special when you meet them for the first time, and it feels like you’re just picking up where you left off. You kind of look at them and think ‘Where the hell did you come from? Where the hell have you been?”— Caitlin Siehl, alonesomes.tumblr.com