“You love people. They disappoint you. But sometimes, they don’t. They just keep loving you, right through it all, waiting for you to wake up and appreciate them. To say, ‘I love you. I’ve always loved you back.’”— Courtney Maum, amazon.com
“If you can love the wrong one so much, just imagine how much you can love the right one.”— Brandon Stanton, amazon.com
“I want to live in the craters of his dark side my body fitting in the curvature of his wound.”— Amy Black, Roger H. Brightley, amazon.com
“Honestly, I don't need someone who sees the good in me. I need someone who sees the bad in me and still wants me.”— Unknown, twitter.com
“I love you more than my own skin and even though you don't love me the same way, you love me anyways, don't you? And if you don't, I'll always have the hope that you do, and I'm satisfied with that. Love me a little. I adore you.”— Frida Kahlo, amazon.com
“you might not have been my first love but you were the love that made all the other loves irrelevant”— Rupi Kaur, amazon.com
“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
“You taught me that there is such a thing as unconditional love; when you found a way to love me, in the condition I was in.”— William Chapman, williamchapmanwritings.tumblr.com
“I don’t believe in unconditional love. In fact, I think it’s unwise. My love has had a condition that if ever my love keeps you from you, from your growing, and realizing your personal potential, then I must step aside. No one has the right to stand in the way of another’s joy, development, or uniqu…”— Leo Buscaglia, peopleandpossibilities.com
“Maybe one day you’ll come back. Maybe you never will and that’ll suck, but you can’t keep doing this. The blame and the self-loathing and the bull[crap]. I can’t watch that. It makes me hate you for hating yourself. I don’t want to lose you. But I’d rather lose you if it means you’ll be happy. I thi…”— Katja Millay, amazon.com
“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep…”— Pablo Neruda, amazon.com
“a relationship isn't always 50/50. some days a person will struggle. you suck it up and pick up that 80/20 cus they need you. that's love.”— Slaughter ⚔️ , twitter.com
“I will love you if you have a child, and I will love you if you have two children, or three children, or even more, although I personally think three is plenty, and I will love you if you never marry at all, and never have children, and spend your years wishing you had married me after all, and I mu…”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.com
“I’ll love you with every little bit of everything that has ever consumed me and I will forever love you and forever find you in every life time and so on. Until the stars die out and the universe leaps but even then, my love will remain.”— R. M. Drake, amazon.com
“We love in another’s soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.”— Irving Layton, amazon.com
“….and she loved a little boy very, very much– even more than she loved herself.”— Shel Silverstein, amazon.com