“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”— John Green, amazon.com
“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”— André Gide, amazon.com
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”— Martin Luther King Jr., amazon.com
“I finally understood what true love meant...love meant that you care for another person's happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be.”— Nicholas Sparks, amazon.com
“So it's not gonna be easy. It's going to be really hard; we're gonna have to work at this everyday, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, everyday. You and me... everyday.”— Nicholas Sparks, amazon.com
“I have never thought of true love as someone being there at your side every moment of every day, but being free, and encouraged, to pursue your own passions and to share in the spoils of your triumphs together.”— Beau Taplin, thoughtcatalog.com
“I will endure for you, even when we fall on hard times, even when we struggle. I will not flee or abandon you when we disagree, I will not sleep within foreign arms when I feel hurt. I promise that when I date you, I will fight for you. I will fight for the beauty in which our hearts have felt, and…”— Bianca Sparacino, thoughtcatalog.com
“Stay for me. Stay with me. There will never be anyone else. Not in my bed. Not in my life. And not in my heart.”— Rachel Vincent, amazon.com
“Have you ever felt really close to someone? So close that you can't understand why you and the other person have two separate bodies, two separate skins?”— Nancy Garden, amazon.com
“I am in fact a bad mother. I love my husband more than I love my children.”— Ayelet Waldman, nytimes.com
“There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.”— Sarah Dessen, amazon.com
“Some people can love you more in a year than others could love you in fifty. Some people can teach you more within a single day than others could teach you over the entire course of a lifetime.”— Heidi Priebe, thoughtcatalog.com
“But she loved him, too, with a ferocity that eventually forced her to leave him. They fought each other with the kind of graceful anger that only love can create. Still, their love was passionate, unpredictable, and selfish.’”— Sherman Alexie, amazon.com
“Real love is looking at someone and knowing that you wouldn’t mind waking up to their bad breath for the next century, and you are fine with them seeing you before you brush your hair and fix your face for the day.”— K.M. Shea, amazon.com
“There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.”— Sarah Dessen, amazon.com