“I have waited for this opportunity for more than half a century, to repeat to you once again my vow of eternal fidelity and everlasting love.”— Gabriel Garcia Marquez, amazon.com
“Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own; in pain and sickness it would still be dear.”— Charlotte Brontë, amazon.com
“You and I, it's as though we have been taught to kiss in heaven and sent down to earth together, to see if we know what we were taught.”— Boris Pasternak, amazon.com
“If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.”— Winnie the Pooh, iheartintelligence.com
“It’s a very dangerous state. You are inclined to recklessness and kind of tune out the rest of your life and everything that’s been important to you. It’s actually not all that pleasurable. I don’t know who the hell wants to get in a situation where you can’t bear an hour without somebody’s company.”— Colin Firth, iheartintelligence.com
“So what I’m trying to say is you should text me back. Because there’s a precedent. Because there’s an urgency. Because there’s a bedtime. Because when the world ends I might not have my phone charged and If you don’t respond soon, I won’t know if you’d wanna leave your shadow next to mine.”— Marina Keegan, amazon.com
“I haven’t changed my mind. That’s the point! I want to spend my life with you even though it’s totally irrational. And you have short earlobes. Socially and genetically there’s no reason for me to be attracted to you. The only logical conclusion is that I must be in love with you.”— Graeme Simsion, amazon.com
“He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”— Emily Brontë, amazon.com
“Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.”— Rainbow Rowell, amazon.com
“Everyone, at some point in their lives, wakes up in the middle of the night with the feeling that they are all alone in the world, and that nobody loves them now and that nobody will ever love them...The best thing to do in these circumstances is to wake somebody else up, so that they can feel this…”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.com
“I think you still love me, but we can’t escape the fact that I’m not enough for you.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.”— Nicole Krauss, amazon.com
“You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up.”— Louise Erdrich, amazon.com
“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com