“'Did you find yourself?' 'What?' said my sister. 'Did you find yourself?' 'She found me,' I said.”— Gary D. Schmidt, amazon.com
“'I hope we'll get lucky enough to grow old together. You see them on the street, those couples who've been married so long you can't tell them apart. How'd that be?’ ‘I'd love to look like you,’ I said, 'I'd love to be you.'”— Paula McLain, amazon.com
“...find...someone who will tremble for your touch...Someone whose fingers are a poem.”— Janet Fitch, amazon.com
“But what happens when you don't find that right person? Do you just spend the rest of your life in a relationship where the conversation isn't great, everything isn't perfect, but it is nice and sweet?”— Miranda Kenneally, amazon.com
“Both. I want to stay. I want to leave. I am three oceans away from my soul.”— Nayyirah Waheed, amazon.com
“...she was terrific to hold hands with. Most girls if you hold hands with them, their goddam hand dies on you, or else they think they have to keep moving their hand all the time, as if they were afraid they'd bore you or something. Jane was different. We'd get into a goddam movie or something, and…”— J. D. Salinger, amazon.com
“Some people go through life searching and never find their soul mates. They never do. You and I did, we just happened to have them for a shorter period of time than we hoped for. It's sad, but it's life.”— Cecelia Ahern, amazon.com
“She remembered thinking falling for him would be like falling in love with darkness, but now she imagined he was more like a starry night: the constellations were always there, constant, magnificent guides against the ever-present black.”— Stephanie Garber, amazon.com
“It takes a special person to see darkness inside of someone and not condemn them.”— Shannon Messenger, amazon.com
“Well, I remember this girl. I am not whole without her. I am not alive without her. When she was with me I was more alive than I have ever been, am not only when she was pleasant either. Even when we were fighting I was whole.”— John Steinback, amazon.com
“I am not a hotel room I am home I am not the whiskey you want I am the water you need Don't come here with expectations And try to make a vacation out of me.”— Rupi Kaur, amazon.com
“I learned that there is good in this world, if you look hard enough for it. I learned that not everyone is disappointing, including me, and that a 1,257-foot bump in the ground can feel higher than a bell tower if you're standing next to the right person.”— Jennifer Niven, amazon.com
“Now listen here, I'm going to give you all a piece of advice because it's too late for this guy. Here's what I recommend to you. If you have someone that you think is the one...take that person and travel around the world. Buy a plane ticket for the two of you to travel all around the world and go t…”— Bill Murray, parade.com
“We choose someone to love only by not choosing to love millions of others...”— James Wood, amazon.com
“Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.”— Gloria Steinem, elle.com
“Don't get starry-eyed about somebody you can't have, especially if it blinds you to somebody who's really important.”— Rick Riordan, amazon.com
“I'm not looking for somebody who will whisper sweet nothings into my ear to feed the ravenous ego of my heart. But someone who can look me straight in the eye and say, I love you, whether you fail or fall, just as you are.”— Beau Taplin, afadthatlastsforever.tumblr.com
“'What kind of love are you talking about?' 'The kind of love that owns you. The kind where you know the other person inside and out. Where you can go through hell and back and still make it out okay.'”— Jessica Sorensen, amazon.com
“I will find that special person who is wrong for me in just the right way.”— Andrew Boyd, dailyafflictions.com