“In the summer I stretch out on the shore And think of you Had I told the sea What I felt for you, It would have left its shores, Its shells, Its fish, And followed me.”— Nizar Qabbani, consciouslivingfoundation.org
“The biggest stars look at me with your eyes. And as I love you, the pines in the wind want to sing your name with their leaves of wire.”— Pablo Neruda, amazon.co.uk
“There are 6 states pressed like stubborn flowers between the last time I kissed you and today but you still feel like a sound caught in my throat.”— Sierra De Mulder, sierrademulder.com
“There is a love I reminisce. like a seed I’ve never sown of lips that I am yet to kiss, and eyes not met my own. hands that wrap around my wrists. and arms that feel like home. I wonder how it is I miss, these things I’ve never known.”— Lang Leav, amazon.com
“Choosing between two people is for many of us much more a matter of choosing between two selves: the two different selves you are with these two different people.”— Mira Kirshenbaum, amazon.com
“I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.”— John Steinbeck, amazon.com
“You turn my life into something light, amazing, rainbowed— you put a glint of happiness on everything.”— Vladimir Nabokov, amazon.com
“In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.”— Maya Angelou, wattpad.com
“They say a good love is one that sits you down, gives you a drink of water, and pats you on top of the head. But I say a good love is one that casts you into the wind, sets you ablaze, makes you burn through the skies and ignite the night like a phoenix; the kind that cuts you loose like a wildfire…”— C. Joybell C., lovequotes.net.in
“For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.”— D. H. Lawrence, amazon.com
“Perhaps the reason we are unable to love is that we yearn to be loved, that is, we demand something (love) from our partner instead of delivering ourselves up to him demand-free and asking for nothing but his company.”— Milan Kundera, amazon.com
“Letting go doesn’t mean that you don’t care about someone anymore. It’s just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.”— Deborah Reber, amazon.com
“Anyone who loves in the expectation of being loved in return is wasting their time.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“We’re all seeking that special person who is right for us. But if you’ve been through enough relationships, you begin to suspect there’s no right person, just different flavors of wrong. Why is this? Because you yourself are wrong in some way, and you seek out partners who are wrong in some compleme…”— Andrew Boyd, amazon.com
“You think because he doesn’t love you that you are worthless. You think that because he doesn’t want you anymore that he is right — that his judgement and opinion of you are correct. If he throws you out, then you are garbage. You think he belongs to you because you want to belong to him. Don’t. It’…”— Toni Morrison, amazon.com
“Love is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise. If love were only a feeling, there would be no basis for the promise to love each other forever. A feeling comes and it may go. How can I judge that it will stay forever, when my act does not involve judgment and decision.”— Erich Fromm, amazon.com