“Selflessness. It should be the basis of every relationship. If a person truly cares about you, they’ll get more pleasure from the way they make you feel, rather than the way you make them feel.”— Colleen Hoover, amazon.com
“I cannot bear the thought of you in someone else’s arms yet imagining you alone is sad.”— Rod McKuen, amazon.com
“The wrong person makes you beg for attention, affection, love and commitment. The right person gives you these things because they love you.”— Sonya Parker, sonyaparker.com
“People like you hold their loved ones above ideals. They’ll do anything to protect them, no matter what it costs.”— Aimee Carter, amazon.com
“Sacrificing everything that you care about in order to make another person happy is not love. It’s not really that some people are gardeners and some people are flowers… It’s that we both must be both, each in our own time.”— Leila Sales, amazon.com
“Love is the same as being lost. Except you don’t care that you’re lost.”— Jedediah Berry, amazon.com
“I love you enough to rid myself of anything that might trouble you. I will become another person.”— Franz Kafka, amazon.com
“She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love. Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.”— William Faulkner, amazon.com