“I want to buy you a cup of coffee on your best and worst days, write you notes and leave them scattered around your house, show up on your porch in the pouring rain with my ukulele just to say hello, send you postcards brimming with adventures and run away with you for weekends with no maps. I want…”— Lily Catlin Garcia, elephantjournal.tumblr.com
“I look at you, and I just love you, and it terrifies me. It terrifies me what I would do for you.”— Alexandra Bracken, amazon.com
“It’s not weak to stand by the person you love when they’re trying to fix a big mistake, and it’s not weak to decide to put yourself first.”— Sylvia Day, amazon.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
“I love you –I do –but I am afraid of making that love too important. Because you’re always going to leave me…We can’t deny it.”— David Levithan, amazon.com
“I loved you the same way that I learned how to ride a bike: Scared… but reckless.”— Rudy Francisco, youtube.com
“I would love you in any shape, in any world, with any past. Never doubt that.”— Claudia Gray, amazon.com
“I am doing something I hate for you. This is what it means to be in love.”— Jonathan Safran Foer, amazon.com
“People who truly love us can be divided into two categories: those who understand us, and those who forgive us our worst sins. Rarely do you find someone capable of both.”— Jonathan Carroll, jonathancarrollstories.tumblr.com
“I have a habit of falling in love with souls who have yet to be at peace with their bodies, their minds, their weaknesses. I try to build them, to find the parts of them that are missing in me. I end up with holes in my chest.”— Farah Gabdon, thegabdonwrites.tumblr.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