“Some people don’t know how to fall in love, like not knowing how to swim. They panic first when they jump in. Then they figure it out.”— Sarah Addison Allen, amazon.com
“We demand closure as though our lives were put together as neatly as novels, but the fact of the matter is they’re not. In real life, relationships are messy and poorly written, ending too early or too late, and sometimes in the middle of a sentence.”— Beau Taplin, afadthatlastsforever.tumblr.com
“The capacity to be alone is the capacity to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it is not. It is an existential truth: only those people who are capable of being alone are capable of love, of sharing, of going into the deepest core of the other person—without possessing the other, without beco…”— Osho, goodreads.com
“If you asked most people whether they believed in love or not, they’d probably say they didn’t. Yet that’s not necessarily what they truly think. It’s just the way they defend themselves against what they want. They believe in it, but pretend they don’t until they’re allowed to. Most people would th…”— Alain de Botton, amazon.com
“There are two kinds of love…in the safe kind you look for someone who’s exactly like you. It’s what most folks settle for. But then there’s the other kind of love. Everyone’s born with a ragged edge, and some folks crave that piece that’s a perfect fit. You’ll search for it forever, if you have to.…”— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com
“Maybe that’s what it all comes down to. Love, not as a surge of passion, but as a choice to commit to something, someone, no matter what obstacles or temptations stand in the way. And maybe making that choice, again and again, day in and day out, year after year, says more about love than never havi…”— Emily Giffin, amazon.com
“The only obsession everyone wants: 'love.' People think that in falling in love they make themselves whole? The Platonic union of souls? I think otherwise. I think you're whole before you begin. And the love fractures you. You're whole, and then you're cracked open.”— Philip Roth, amazon.com
“Love isn’t something natural. Rather it requires discipline, concentration, patience, faith, and the overcoming of narcissism. It isn’t a feeling, it is a practice”— Erich Fromm, amazon.com
“Real love doesn’t let people disappear; it doesn’t let the unfortunate timing of the universe stop two people from ending up together. Because people always find their way in the end, people who are meant for each other, will ride through storms and packed out tubes and delayed flights and every sin…”— Rose Goodman, thoughtcatalog.com
“Because love doesn’t wait for time. Because clocks don’t reset. Because an hour lost is one you never get back. Because you should not have to see someone’s face in a photograph and tell yourself and your friends that they were the ‘one who got away’.”— Rose Goodman, thoughtcatalog.com
“The truth is, love doesn’t worry so much about time. Love doesn’t stop being love because things are complicated. Feelings don’t stop burning inside you like fireworks just because you both have other priorities, or your lives are a little messy. That intense need to be beside each other doesn’t jus…”— Rose Goodman, thoughtcatalog.com
“I came to the conclusion a while ago that there is nothing romantic or supernatural about loving someone: Love is the privilege of being responsible for another.”— John Green, amazon.com
“Love isn’t always pretty. Sometimes you spend all your time hoping it’ll eventually be something different. Something better. Then, before you know it, you’re back to square one, and you lost your heart somewhere along the way.”— Colleen Hoover, amazon.com
“A profound love between two people involves, after all, the power and chance of doing profound hurt.”— Ursula K. Le Guin, amazon.com
“Life is not about constantly fighting to keep someone in your life. It is about constantly fighting for a better life together.”— Shannon L. Alder, amazon.com