“Maybe love is in New York City, already asleep; You are in California, Australia, wide awake. Maybe love is always in the wrong time zone. Maybe love is not ready for you. Maybe you are not ready for love. Maybe love just isn’t the marrying type. Maybe the next time you see love is twenty years afte…”— Sarah Kay, Phil Kaye, youtube.com
“Often, when we have a crush, when we lust for a person, we see only a small percentage of who they really are. The rest we make up for ourselves. Rather than listen, or learn, we smother them in who we imagine them to be, what we desire for ourselves, we create little fantasies of people and let the…”— Beau Taplin, afadthatlastsforever.tumblr.com
“It takes a special person to see darkness inside of someone and not condemn them.”— Shannon Messenger, amazon.com
“They never discussed it, but both came to understand it as a promise: he would always make sure there was a place for her. She would always be able to say, Someone is coming. I am not alone.”— Celeste Ng, amazon.com
“She was dull, unattractive, couldn't tell the time, count money or tie her own shoe laces... But I loved her.”— Jean-Jacques Rousseau, goodreads.com
“It’s bullsh*t to think of friendship and romance as being different. They’re not. They’re just variations of the same love. Variations of the same desire to be close.”— David Levithan, amazon.com
“That the mutual affection of the people concerned should be the one paramount reason for marriage, outweighing everything else, was and always had been absolutely unheard of in the practice of the ruling classes; that sort of thing only happened in romance – or among the oppressed classes, which did…”— Friedrich Engels, 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
“Each lover has a theory of his own About the difference between the ache Of being with his love, & being alone:”— W. H. Auden, web.mit.edu
“You can get bad love anywhere. But letting good love in is an entirely different thing.”— Ryan O'Connell, youtube.com
“Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.”— Gloria Steinem, elle.com
“I don't just want to take your breath away. I want to rip it from your mouth and keep it locked away between my teeth. You can only have it back if you kiss me again.”— Meggie Royer, tlmgh.wordpress.com
“I have so much to say to you. I want to begin at the beginning, because that is what you deserve. I want to tell you everything, without leaving out a single detail. But where is the beginning? And what is everything?”— Jonathan Safran Foer, amazon.com
“Date a girl who reads. Date a girl who spends her money on books instead of clothes. She has problems with closet space because she has too many books. Date a girl who has a list of books she wants to read, who has had a library card since she was twelve. Find a girl who reads. You’ll know that she…”— Rosemarie Urquico, patheos.com