“I’ve been in love before, it’s like a narcotic. At first it brings the euphoria of complete surrender. The next day you want more. You’re not addicted yet, but you like the sensation, and you think you can still control things. You think about the person you love for two minutes then forget them for…”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“I was so sentimental about you I’d break any one’s heart for you. My, I was a damned fool. I broke my own heart, too. It’s broken and gone. Everything I believe in and everything I cared about I left for you because you were so wonderful and you loved me so much that love was all that mattered. Love…”— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com
“What does one person give to another? He gives of himself, of the most precious he has, he gives of his life. This does not necessarily mean that he sacrifices his life for the other - but that he gives him of that which is alive in him; he gives him of his joy, of his interest, of his understanding…”— Erich Fromm, amazon.com
“It is a brave and stupid thing, a beautiful thing, to waste one's life for love.”— Andrew Sean Greer, amazon.com
“I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up.”— Lauren Oliver, amazon.com
“I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love.”— Jonathan Safran Foer, amazon.com
“Stay single until you meet someone who is willing to make sacrifices. The person who meets you halfway. The one who proves they are as into it as you are.”— Kirsten Corley, thoughtcatalog.com