“They held each other and kissed and pushed each others' darkness into the corner, believing in each others' light, each others' dream.”— Hubert Selby Jr., amazon.com
“Goofy, my darling, hasn’t it been a lovely day? I woke up this morning and then sun was lying like a birth-day parcel on my table so I opened it up and so many happy things went fluttering into the air: love to Doo-do and the remembered feel of our skins cool against each other in other mornings lik…”— Zelda Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“I play my cards as best I can, but I lose my luck when you're not here. My darling heart, won't you please give in? I may be strong, but I want you back again.”— Dave Matthews, youtube.com
“Oh, I watch you there through the window and I stare as you wear nothing but you wear it so well. Tied up and twisted the way I'd like to be, for you, for me, come crash into me.”— Dave Matthews, youtube.com
“Darling heart, our fairy tale is almost ended, and we’re going to marry and live happily ever afterward just like the princess in the tower who worried you so much—and made me so very cross by her constant recurrence — I'm so sorry for all the times I've been mean and hateful — for all the miserable…”— Zelda Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“And theres always my infinite love—You are a sweet person—the sweetest and dearest of all and I love you as I love my vanished youth— which is as much as a human heart can hold— filled with copper clouds like the after-math of cannon-fire, pre-war, civil-war clouds and I feel all empty and bored and…”— Zelda Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“You are the only person on earth, Lover, who has ever known and loved all of me — Men love me 'cause I'm pretty — and they're always afraid of mental wickedness — and men love 'cause I'm clever, and they're always afraid of my prettines — One or two have even loved me 'cause I'm lovable, and then of…”— Zelda Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“...we would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright.”— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com
“I like imagining your body is Saturn, my body ten thousand rings wrapped around you.”— Andrea Gibson, amazon.com
“I want a tattoo of the first morning we woke up together. I want the memory to hurt.”— Clementine Von Radics, amazon.com
“little dark girl with kind eyes when it comes time to use the knife I won't flinch and I won't blame you, as I drive along the shore alone as the palms wave, the ugly heavy palms, as the living does not arrive as the dead do not leave, I won't blame you, instead I will remember the kisses our lips r…”— Charles Bukowski, allpoetry.com
“You drive me insane. You're the scariest, most clever, bravest person I know, and sometimes I can't catch my breath because I'm trying so hard to keep up. There will never be another like you. You realize that, don’t you? Billions of people will come and go in this world. but there will never be ano…”— Marie Lu, amazon.com
“Maybe it's not the first kisses that are supposed to be special. Maybe it's the last ones.”— Kiera Cass, amazon.com
“I feel like you can look inside me and see all the places I am odd or unusual and fit your heart around them, for you are odd and unusual in just the same way. We are the same.”— Cassandra Clare, amazon.com
“But it's not enough to be in love. It's about how you spend your days, what you do together, who you choose as friends, and most of all it's what work you do ... Better to break both our hearts now than watch them wither away over time.”— Helen Simonson, amazon.com
“I don't want to be a sweetheart. I want to be the fucking love of your life.”— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, amazon.com
“I loved you so much once. I did. More than anything in the whole wide world. Imagine that. What a laugh that is now. Can you believe it? We were so intimate once upon a time I can't believe it now. The memory of being that intimate with somebody. We were so intimate I could puke. I can't imagine eve…”— Raymond Carver, amazon.com
“I want to spend a lot but not all of my years with you. We’ll talk about kids but make plans to travel. I will remember your eyes as green when they were gray. Our dogs will be named For Now and Mostly. Sex will be good but next door’s will sound better. There will be small things. I will pick up yo…”— Rebecca Hazelton, amazon.com
“You know, it's quite a job starting to love somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment, in the very beginning, when you have to jump across a precipice: if you think about it you don't do it. I know I'll never jump again.”— Jean-Paul Sartre, amazon.com