“I am hopelessly in love with a memory. An echo from another time, another place.”— Michael Faudet, amazon.com
“Put your hands on my knees, she said, and think of me as a book you’ve been dying to read.”— Michael Faudet, amazon.com
“I heard what you said. I’m not the silly romantic you think. I don’t want the heavens or the shooting stars. I don’t want gemstones or gold. I have those things already. I want…a steady hand. A kind soul. I want to fall asleep, and wake, knowing my heart is safe. I want to love, and be loved.”— Shana Abe, amazon.com
“In vain I have struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”— Jane Austen, amazon.com
“Take me with you. I want a doomed love. I want streets at night, wind and rain, no one wondering where I am.”— Michael Cunningham, amazon.com
“When our eyes first met, she was loved and I was found.”— Instagram post by Maram Rimawi (Melancholy Poet), instagram.com
“I consider how you don’t get to choose whom you’re attracted to, you only get to wonder about it retrospectively.”— David Mitchell, amazon.com
“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”— Robert A. Heinlein, amazon.com
“He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.”— Leo Tolstoy, amazon.com