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You honestly expect me to breathe in a world without air?
— Renee Ahdieh, The Wrath and the Dawn
I don't want to be somebody's crush. If somebody likes me, I want them to like the real me, not what they think I am.
— Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Two things you will never have to chase: True friends & true love.
— Mandy Hale
Nobody ever gets what they want when it comes to love.
— Scott Turow
It hurts to breathe. It hurts to live. I hate her, yet I do not think I can exist without her.
— Charlotte Featherstone, Addicted
I love you," I said, and stabbed him.
— Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses
What if love wasn't the act of finding what you were missing but the give-and-take that made you both match?
— Jodi Picoult, The Tenth Circle
A girl can still admire, can’t she? Even those who can’t afford to go in the store can still window-shop. Right? Knowing he wasn’t for me didn’t mean I couldn’t covet the merchandise.
— Colleen Houck, Tiger's Curse
Deep in her heart, she wasn't sure she deserved to be happy, nor did she believe that she was worthy of someone who seemed...normal.
— Nicholas Sparks, Safe Haven
It's one thing to fall in love. It's another to feel someone else fall in love with you, and to feel a responsibility toward that love.
— David Levithan, Every Day
When someone blushes, doesn't that mean 'yes'?
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
When love has fused and mingled two beings in a sacred and angelic unity, the secret of life has been discovered so far as they are concerned; they are no longer anything more than the two boundaries of the same destiny; they are no longer anything but the two wings of the same spirit. Love, soar.
— Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
It was the nicest thing she could imagine. It made her want to have his babies and give him both of her kidneys.
— Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park
How can something so wrong feel so right?
— Tabitha Suzuma, Forbidden
I don't think you can define love.
— Harry Styles
I thought you were gone forever, I thought you’d walked away from everything, because I failed, because I destroyed the only thing that ever mattered to me. I waited for you to come, but you didn’t.
— Alexandra Adornetto, Halo
So she thoroughly taught him that one cannot take pleasure without giving pleasure, and that every gesture, every caress, every touch, every glance, every last bit of the body has its secret, which brings happiness to the person who knows how to wake it. She taught him that after a celebration of love the lovers should not part without admiring each other, without being conquered or having conquered, so that neither is bleak or glutted or has the bad feeling of being used or misused.
— Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
To love someone is like moving into a house," Sonja used to say. "At first you fall in love in everything new, you wonder every morning that this is one's own, as if they are afraid that someone will suddenly come tumbling through the door and say that there has been a serious mistake and that it simply was not meant to would live so fine. But as the years go by, the facade worn, the wood cracks here and there, and you start to love this house not so much for all the ways it is perfect in that for all the ways it is not. You become familiar with all its nooks and crannies. How to avoid that the key gets stuck in the lock if it is cold outside. Which floorboards have some give when you step on them, and exactly how to open the doors for them not to creak. That's it, all the little secrets that make it your home. " - Fredrik Backman , A Man Called Ove
— Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove
Your beloved and your friends were once strangers. Somehow at a particular time, they came from the distance toward your life. Their arrival seemed so accidental and contingent. Now your life is unimaginable without them. Similarly, your identity and vision are composed of a certain constellation of ideas and feelings that surfaced from the depths of the distance within you. To lose these now would be to lose yourself.
— John O'Donohue, Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom
But beauty is about finding the right fit, the most natural fit, To be perfect, you have to feel perfect about yourself --- avoid trying to be something you're not. For a goddess, that's especially hard. We can change so easily.-Aphrodite
— Rick Riordan, The Lost Hero
Let me love you, but don't love me back. Do love me and let me hate you for a while. Let me feel like I have some control, because I know I never do. 
— Ann Brashares
Huh," Leo said. "Well, if you ever get off this island and want a job, let me know. You're not a total klutz."She smirked. "A job, eh?" Making things in your forge?""Nah, we could start our own shop," Leo said, surprising himself. Starting a machine shop had always been one of his dreams, but he'd never told anyone about it. "Leo and Calypso's Garage: Auto Repair and Mechanical Monsters.
— Rick Riordan, The House of Hades
Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it inflames the great.
— Roger de Rabutin de Bussy
Makakapili ka ng lugar na uupuan mo, pero hindi mo mapipili ang taong uupo sa puwang sa tabi mo... Ganyan ang senaryo sa bus. Ganyan din sa pag-ibig... Lalong 'di mo kontrolado kung kelan siya bababa.
— Bob Ong
It's hard to love a woman and do anything.
— Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
If one wanted to depict the whole thing graphically, every episode, with its climax, would require a three-dimensional, or, rather, no model: every experience is unrepeatable. What makes lovemaking and reading resemble each other most is that within both of them times and spaces open, different from measurable time and space.
— Italo Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
But the you who you are tonight is the same you I was in love with yesterday, the same you I’ll be in love with tomorrow.
— Gayle Forman, If I Stay
Don’t take the high ground and assume you already know what you’ll do. The truth is, when it comes to someone you love, you’ll find there isn’t anything you won’t do.
— Richelle Mead, The Fiery Heart
If equal affection cannot be,Let the more loving one be me.
— W.H. Auden
Five minutes are enough to dream a whole life, that is how relative time is.
— Mario Benedetti
Love is a wonderful gift. It's a present so precious words can barely begin to describe it. Love is a feeling, the deepest and sweetest of all. It's incredibly strong and amazingly gentle at the very same time. It is a blessing that should be counted every day. It is nourishment for the soul. It is devotion, constantly letting each person know how supportive it's certainty can be. Love is a heart filled with affection for the most important person in your life. Love is looking at the special someone who makes your world go around and absolutely loving what you see. Love gives meaning to one's world and magic to a million hopes and dreams. It makes the morning shine more brightly and each season seem like it's the nicest one anyone ever had. Love is an invaluable bond that enriches every good thing in life. It gives each hug a tenderness, each heart a happiness, each spirit a steady lift. Love is an invisible connection that is exquisitely felt by those who know the joy, feel the warmth, share the sweetness, and celebrate the gift! 
— Douglas Pagels
This time I wouldn't forget him, because I couldn't ever forgive him - for breaking my heart twice.
— James Patterson, Sundays at Tiffany's
Thought I couldn't live without youIt's gonna hurt when it heals tooEven though I really love youI'm gonna smile cause I deserve toQuickly I'm learning to love againAll I know is I'mma be ok
— Leona Lewis
I'm not really sure why. But... do you stop loving someone just because they betray you? I don't think so. That's what makes the betrayal hurt so much - pain, frustration, anger... and I still loved her. I still do.
— Brandon Sanderson, The Final Empire
Well my music was different in high school; I was singing about love—you know, things I don't care about anymore.
— Lady Gaga
If you have the woman you love, what more do you need? Well, besides an alibi for the time of her husband’s murder. 
— Dark Jar Tin Zoo, Love Quotes for the Ages. Specifically Ages 19-91.
When you love someone, they become a part of who you are. They're in everything you do. They're in the air you breathe and the water you drink and the blood in your veins. Their touch stays on your skin and their voice stays in your ears and their thoughts stay in your mind. You know their dreams because their nightmares pierce your heart and their good dreams are your dreams too. And you don't think they're perfect, but you know their flaws, the deep-down truth of them, and the shadows of all their secrets, and they don't frighten you away; in fact you love them more for it, because you don't want perfect. You want them. You want—"He broke off then, as if realizing everyone was looking at him again."You want what?" said Dru with enormous eyes."Nothing," Julian said. "I'm just talking.
— Cassandra Clare, Lady Midnight
Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
— Bruce Lee
You know that when I hate you, it is because I love you to a point of passion that unhinges my soul.
— Julie de Lespinasse
The only way love can last a lifetime is if it's unconditional. The truth is this: love is not determined by the one being loved but rather by the one choosing to love.
— Stephen Kendrick, The Love Dare
The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.
— Gabriel García Márquez
When you find a guy who calls you beautiful instead of hot, who calls you back when you hang up on him, who will stand in front of you when other’s cast stones, or will stay awake just to watch you sleep, who wants to show you off to the world when you are in sweats, who will hold your hand when your sick, who thinks your pretty without makeup, the one who turns to his friends and say, ‘that’s her’, the one that would bear your rejection because losing you means losing his will to live, who kisses you when you screw up, watches the stars and names one for you and will hold and rock that baby for hours so you can sleep…..you marry him all over again.
— Shannon L. Alder
My girlfriend is sad and quiet and keeps me up all night worrying about her.
— Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park
Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour with you.
— E. Lockhart, We Were Liars
Sam came around the side of the car and stopped dead when he saw me. “Oh my God, what is THAT?” I used my thumb and middle finger to flick the multicolored pom-pom on top of my head. “In my language, we call it a HAT. It keeps my ears warm.” “Oh my God,” Sam said again, and closed the distance between us. He cupped my face in his hands and studied me. “It’s horribly cute.” He kissed me, looked at the hat, and then he kissed me again. I vowed never to lose the pom-pom hat.
— Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver
To be loved but not known is comforting but superficial. To be known and not loved is our greatest fear. But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God. It is what we need more than anything. It liberates us from pretense, humbles us out of our self-righteousness, and fortifies us for any difficulty life can throw at us.
— Timothy J. Keller, The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God
Love God and He will enable you to love others even when they disappoint you.
— Francine Rivers, And The Shofar Blew
It was brave," countered Issa. "It was rare. It was love, and it was beautiful.
— Laini Taylor, Days of Blood & Starlight
You're like a grey sky. You're beautiful, even though you don't want to be.
— Jasmine Warga, My Heart and Other Black Holes
There will never be no love at all.
— Bob Marley
Memory is a funny thing. When I was in the scene, I hardly paid it any mind. I never stopped to think of it as something that would make a lasting impression, certainly never imagined that eighteen years later I would recall it in such detail. I didn't give a damn about the scenery that day. I was thinking about myself. I was thinking about the beautiful girl walking next to me. I was thinking about the two of us together, and then about myself again. It was the age, that time of life when every sight, every feeling, every thought came back, like a boomerang, to me. And worse, I was in love. Love with complications. The scenery was the last thing on my mind.
— Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
I love you and it's getting worse.
— Joseph E. Morris
Oh, it's always the same,' she sighed, 'if you want men to behave well to you, you must be beastly to them; if you treat them decently they make you suffer for it.
— W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage
I believe in love the verb, not the noun.
— Greg Behrendt, He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys
I'm sorry. I know you loved her. It was hard not to.
— John Green, Looking for Alaska
Dogs have given us their absolute all. We are the center of their universe. We are the focus of their love and faith and trust. They serve us in return for scraps. It is without a doubt the best deal man has ever made. 
— Roger A. Caras
I love you, in my mind where my thoughts reside, in my heart where my emotions live, and in my soul where my dreams are born. I love you.
— Dee Henderson, The Healer
A kiss on the beach when there is a full moon is the closest thing to heaven.
— H. Jackson Brown Jr.
Except fang. I glared at him. "Go on, try to stop me, I dare you." It was like the old days when we used to wrestle, each trying to get the better of the other. I was ready to take him down, my hands curled into fist. "I was just going to say be careful," Fang told me. He stepped closer and brushed some hair out of my eyes. "And I've got your back." He motioned with his head toward the torpedo chamber. Oh my God. It hit me like a tsunami then, how perfect he was for me, how no one else would ever, could ever, be so perfect for me, how he was everything I could possibly hope for, as a friend, boyfriend, maybe even more. He was it for me. There would be no more looking. I really, really loved him, with a whole new kind of love I'd never felt before, something that made every other kind of love I'd ever felt feel washed out and wimpy in comparison. I loved him with every cell in my body, every thought in my head, every feather in my wings, every breathe in my lungs. and air sacs. Too bad I was going out to face almost certain death. Right there in front of everyone, I threw my arms around his neck and smashed my mouth against his. He was startled for a second, then his strong arms wrapped around me so tightly I could hardly breathe. "ZOMG," I heard Nudge whisper, but still fang and I kissed slanting our heads this way and that to get closer. I could have stood there and kissed him happily for the next millennium, but Angel, or what was left of her was still out there in the could dark ocean. Reluctantly, I ended the kiss, took a step back. Fang's obsidian eyes were glittering brightly and his stoic face had a look of wonder on it."Gotta go," I said quietly. A half smile quirked his mouth. "Yeah. Hurry back." I nodded and he stepped out of the air lock chamber, keeping his eyes fixed on me, memorizing me as he hit the switch that sealed the chamber. The doors hissed shut with a kind of finality, and I realized that my heart was beating so hard it felt like it was going to start snapping ribs. I was scared. I was crazily, deeply, incredibly, joyously, terrifyingly in love. I was on a death mission. Before my head simply exploded from so much emotion, I hit the large button that pressurized the air lock enough for the doors to open to the ocean outside. I really, really hoped that I would prove somewhat uncrushable, like Angel did. The door cracked open below me and I saw the first dark glint of frigid water.
— James Patterson, Maximum Ride Five-Book Set
I...will never...regret you.
— Colleen Hoover, Maybe Someday
She did not believe he could have really gone, because for her, to leave the person you loved was impossible.
— Jodi Lynn Anderson, Tiger Lily
I crossed a thousand leagues to come to you, and lost the best part of me along the way. Don't tell me to leave.
— George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords
There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.
— Jane Austen
Do you remember all of your audiences?" Marco asks. "Not all of them," Celia says. "But I remember the people who look at me the way you do.""What way might that be?""As though they cannot decide if they are afraid of me or they want to kiss me."" I am not afraid of you," Marco says.
— Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus
So many words get lost. They leave the mouth and lose their courage, wandering aimlessly until they are swept into the gutter like dead leaves. On rainy days, you can hear their chorus rushing past: IwasabeautifulgirlPleasedon’tgoItoobelievemybodyismadeofglass-I’veneverlovedanyoneIthinkofmyselfasfunnyForgiveme….There was a time when it wasn’t uncommon to use a piece of string to guide words that otherwise might falter on the way to their destinations. Shy people carried a little bunch of string in their pockets, but people considered loudmouths had no less need for it, since those used to being overheard by everyone were often at a loss for how to make themselves heard by someone. The physical distance between two people using a string was often small; sometimes the smaller the distance, the greater the need for the string.	The practice of attaching cups to the ends of string came much later. Some say it is related to the irrepressible urge to press shells to our ears, to hear the still-surviving echo of the world’s first expression. Others say it was started by a man who held the end of a string that was unraveled across the ocean by a girl who left for America.When the world grew bigger, and there wasn’t enough string to keep the things people wanted to say from disappearing into the vastness, the telephone was invented.Sometimes no length of string is long enough to say the thing that needs to be said. In such cases all the string can do, in whatever its form, is conduct a person’s silence.
— Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn't matter only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal.
— George Orwell, 1984
Those who really love you don't mean to hurt you and if they do, you can't see it in their eyes but it hurts them too.
— Holly Black
Lover? I don't know. I don't know if she loves me. I don't know if I love her. All I can say is, she's the one I think about. All the time. She's the voice I want to hear. She's the face I hope to see.
— Sophie Kinsella, I've Got Your Number
Let me wake up next to you, have coffee in the morning and wander through the city with your hand in mine, and I'll be happy for the rest of my fucked up little life.
— Charlotte Eriksson, Empty Roads & Broken Bottles; in search for The Great Perhaps
I don't understand the point of being together if you're not the happiest.
— Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things.
— John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
As the light begins to intensify, so does my misery, and I wonder how it is possible to hurt so much when nothing is wrong.
— Tabitha Suzuma, Forbidden
Love is honesty. Love is a mutual respect for one another.
— Simone Elkeles, Leaving Paradise
Someone real," I hear myself saying. "Someone who never has to pretend, and who I never have to pretend around. Someone who's smart, but knows how to laugh at himself. Someone who would listen to a symphony and start to cry, because he understands music can be too big for words. Someone who knows me better than I know myself. Someone I want to talk to first thing in the morning and last thing at night. Someone I feel like I've known my whole life, even if I haven't.
— Jodi Picoult, Sing You Home
Isn't it funny.I'm enjoying my hatred so much more than i ever enjoyed love. Love is temperamental. Tiring. It makes demands. Love uses you, changes its mind. But hatred, now, that's something you can use. Sculpt. Wield. It's hard, or soft, however you need it. Love humiliates you, but Hatred cradles you.
— Janet Fitch, White Oleander
I have been loving you a little more every minute since this morning.
— Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
How could I be sleeping with this particular man.... Surely only true love could justify my lack of taste.
— Margaret Atwood, Lady Oracle
Don't marry a rich man. Marry a good man. He will spend his life trying to keep you happy. No rich man can buy that!
— Staness Jonekos
Nelly, I am Heathcliff - he's always, always in my mind - not as a pleasure, any more then I am always a pleasure to myself - but, as my own being.
— Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
He offered her the world. She said she had her own.
— Monique Duval
The right thing at the wrong tme is the wrong thing.
— Joshua Harris, I Kissed Dating Goodbye
She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love. Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.
— William Faulkner, The Town
Sometimes I sit alone under the stars and think of the galaxies inside my heart and truly wonder if anyone will ever want to make sense of all that I am
— Christopher Poindexter
Love is a rebellious bird that nobody can tame.
— Veronica Rossi, Through the Ever Night
I don't let nobody see me wishin' he was mine
— Taylor Swift
I have learned, that the person I have to ask for forgiveness from the most is: myself. You must love yourself. You have to forgive yourself, everyday, whenever you remember a shortcoming, a flaw, you have to tell yourself "That's just fine". You have to forgive yourself so much, until you don't even see those things anymore. Because that's what love is like.
— C. JoyBell C.
There are only two reasons why you leave someone you're still in love with - either it's the right thing to do, or it's the only thing to do.
— Tiffany Reisz, The Siren
If a writer falls in love with you, you can never die.
— Mik Everett
When you know my love, my love will warm you.
— Ruby Dee
How could he convey to someone who'd never even met her the way she always smelled like rain, or how his stomach knotted up every time he saw her shake loose her hair from its braid? How could he describe how it felt when she finished his sentences, turnec the mug they were sharing so that her mouth landed where his had been? How did he explain the way they could be in a locker room, or underwater, or in the piney woods of Maine, bus as long as Em was with him, he was at home?
— Jodi Picoult, The Pact
For a long time, she held a special place in my heart. I kept this special place just for her, like a "Reserved" sign on a quiet corner table in a restaurant. Despite the fact that I was sure I'd never see her again.
— Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun
Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
And he knew, also, what the old man was thinking as his tears flowed, and he, Rieux, thought it too: that a loveless world is a dead world, and always there comes an hour when one is weary of prisons, of one's work, and of devotion to duty, and all one craves for is a loved face, the warmth and wonder of a loving heart.
— Albert Camus, The Plague
Love is—a shade of what I feel.
— Renee Ahdieh, The Wrath and the Dawn
Do you know what hurts so very much? It's love. Love is the strongest force in the world, and when it is blocked that means pain. There are two things we can do when this happens. We can kill that love so that it stops hurting. But then of course part of us dies, too. Or we can ask God to open up another route for that love to travel.
— Corrie ten Boom, The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom
If you have it [love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.
— J.M. Barrie
So then I thought, I'd like you to have something to remember me by, you know, if you ever meet some veela when you're off doing whatever you're doing.'I think dating opportunities are going to be pretty thin on the ground, to be honest.'There's a silver lining I've been looking for,' she whispered, and then she was kissing him as she never kissed him before, and Harry was kissing her back, and it was a blissful oblivion, better than firewhiskey; she was the only real thing in the world, Ginny, the feel of her, one hand on her back, the other in her long sweet-smelling hair...
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
People die, I think, but your relationship with them doesn't. It continues and is ever-changing.
— Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy to a friend.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you.
— Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated
We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present.
— Marianne Williamson
There used to be days that I thought I was okay, or at least that I was going to be. We'd be hanging out somewhere and everything would just fit right and I would think 'it will be okay if it can just be like this forever' but of course nothing can ever stay just how it is forever.
— Nina LaCour, Hold Still
But what was there to say?Only that there were tears. Only that Quietness and Emptiness fitted together like stacked spoons. Only that there was a snuffling in the hollows at the base of a lovely throat. Only that a hard honey-colored shoulder had a semicircle of teethmarks on it. Only that they held each other close, long after it was over. Only that what they shared that night was not happiness, but hideous grief.Only that once again they broke the Love Laws. That lay down who should be loved. And how. And how much.
— Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
Shut up…let me tell you, LET ME. Every time I look at your face or even remember it, it wrecks me. And the way you are with me and you’re just fun and you shit all over me and you make fun of me and you’re real. I don’t have enough time in any day to think about you enough...I don’t even think about women anymore. I think about you.
— Louis C.K.
I went to a tattoo parlor and had YES written onto the palm of my left hand, and NO onto my right palm, what can I say, it hasn't made my life wonderful, its made life possible, when I rub my hands against each other in the middle of winter I am warming myself with the friction of YES and NO, when I clap my hands I am showing my appreciation through the uniting and parting of YES and NO, I signify "book" by peeling open my hands, every book, for me, is the balance of YES and NO, even this one, my last one, especially this one. Does it break my heart, of course, every moment of every day, into more pieces than my heart was made of, I never thought of myself as quiet, much less silent, I never thought about things at all, everything changed, the distance that wedged itself between me and my happiness wasn't the world, it wasn't the bombs and burning buildings, it was me, my thinking, the cancer of never letting go, is ignorance bliss, I don't know, but it's so painful to think, and tell me, what did thinking ever do for me, to what great place did thinking ever bring me? I think and think and think, I've thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
Love is made up of three unconditional properties in equal measure:1. Acceptance2. Understanding3. AppreciationRemove any one of the three and the triangle falls apart.Which, by the way, is something highly inadvisable. Think about it — do you really want to live in a world of only two dimensions?So, for the love of a triangle, please keep love whole.
— Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
— Matt Groening, The Big Book of Hell
I need the thing that happens when your brain shuts off and your heart turns on.
— Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation
I couldn't stand here, hanging on, when the very thing I held disappeared more with each passing day.
— Becca Fitzpatrick, Crescendo
I needed him like I'd never needed anyone.
— Becca Fitzpatrick, Crescendo
Every day People straighten up the hair, why not the heart?
— Ernesto Che Guevara
A weed is but an unloved flower.
— Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.
— Euripides, Medea
One day you fall for this boy. And he touches you with his fingers. And he burns holes in your skin with his mouth. And it hurts when you look at him. And it hurts when you don’t. And it feels like someone’s cut you open with a jagged piece of glass.
— Maureen Medved, The Tracey Fragments
I think you can love a person too much.You put someone up on a pedestal, and all of a sudden, from that perspective, you notice what's wrong - a hair out of place, a run in a stocking, a broken bone. You spend all your time and energy making it right, and all the while, you are falling apart yourself. You don't even realize what you look like, how far you've deteriorated, because you only have eyes for someone else.
— Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care
I never want to be away from you again, except at work, in the restroom or when one of us is at a movie the other does not want to see.
— Lemony Snicket, The Beatrice Letters
To love is good, too: love being difficult. For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation...Love is a high inducement to the individual to ripen, to become something in himself, to become world for himself for another's sake, it is a great exacting claim upon him, something that chooses him out and calls him to vast things.
— Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
The whole image is that eternal suffering awaits anyone who questions God's infinite love. That's the message we're brought up with, isn't it? Believe or die! Thank you, forgiving Lord, for all those options.
— Bill Hicks
I had fun last night," I told Patch, flicking off my chin strap and handing over my helmet. "I'm officially in love with your sheets." "That the only thing you're in love with?""Nope. Your mattress, too."Some smile crept into Patch's eyes. "My bed's an open invitation.
— Becca Fitzpatrick, Silence
You're asking me to define an abstract concept that no one has managed to explain since time began. You sort of sprang it on me," Gansey said. "Why do we breathe air? Because we love air? Because we don't want to suffocate. Why do we eat? Because we don't want to starve. How do I know I love her? Because I can sleep after I talk to her. Why?
— Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven King
Brod's life was a slow realization that the world was not for her, and that for whatever reason, she would never be happy and honest at the same time. She felt as if she were brimming, always producing and hoarding more love inside her. But there was no release...So she had to satisfy herself with the idea of love--loving the loving of things whose existence she didn't care at all about. Love itself became the object of her love. She loved herself in love, she loved loving love, as love loves loving, and was able, in that way, to reconcile herself with a world that fell so short of what she would have hoped for. It was not the world that was the great and saving lie, but her willingness to make it beautiful and fair, to live a once-removed life, in a world once-removed from the one in which everyone else seemed to exist.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
He drew a circle that shut me out-Heretic , rebel, a thing to flout.But love and I had the wit to win:We drew a circle and took him In !From the poem " Outwitted
— Edwin Markham
To find out if she really loved me, I hooked her up to a lie detector. And just as I suspected, my machine was broken. 
— Dark Jar Tin Zoo, Love Quotes for the Ages. Specifically Ages 19-91.
A truth should exist,it should not be usedlike this. If I love youis that a fact or a weapon?
— Margaret Atwood
I've always loved strong women, which is lucky for me because once you're over about twenty-five there is no other kind. Women blow my mind. The stuff that routinely gets done to them would make most men curl up and die, but women turn to steel and keep on coming. Any man who claims he's not into strong women is fooling himself mindless; he's into strong women who know how to pout prettily and put on baby voices, and who will end up keeping his balls in her makeup bags.
— Tana French, Faithful Place
...I told him a story of two people. Two people who shouldn't have met, and who didn't like each other much when they did, but who found they were the only two people in the world who could possibly have understood each other.
— Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
Whatever happened to the dragon?"I mustered my primmest tone. "He has a name, you know."Adrian pulled back and gave me a curious look. "I didn't know, actually. What'd you decide on?""Hopper." When Adrian laughed, I added, "Best rabbit ever. He'd be proud to know his name is being passed on.""Yes, I'm sure he would. Did you name the Mustang too?""I think you mean the Ivashkinator."He stared at me in wonder. "I told you I loved you, right?"Yes," I assured him. "Many times.
— Richelle Mead, The Indigo Spell
I'm not married,” he said softly, “because I can't stomach the idea of marrying a woman inferior to me in mind and spirit. It would mean the death of my soul.
— Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass
Remember. The way you make love is the way God will be with you.
— Jalaluddin Rumi
Yes, I understand why things had to happen this way. I understand his reason for causing me pain. But mere understanding does not chase away the hurt. It does not call upon the sun when dark clouds have loomed over me. Let the rain come then if it must come! And let it wash away the dust that hurt my eyes!
— Jocelyn Soriano, Mend My Broken Heart
Must I go bound while you go freeMust I love a manwho doesn't love meMust I be born with so little artAs to love a man who'll break my Heart
— Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince
The only queer people are those who don't love anybody.
— Rita Mae Brown
You have my whole heart. You always did.
— Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Love is not patronizing and charity isn't about pity, it is about love. Charity and love are the same -- with charity you give love, so don't just give money but reach out your hand instead.
— Mother Teresa
Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you.
— Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.
— Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
You get use to someone—start to like them, even—and they leave. In the end, everyone leaves.
— Rachel Ward, Numbers
I am your moon and your moonlight tooI am your flower garden and your water tooI have come all this way, eager for youWithout shoes or shawlI want you to laughTo kill all your worriesTo love youTo nourish you.
— Jalaluddin Rumi
Aside from the obvious, Francesca, what do you want in return for supplying information?” Bones asked, getting back to the subject. “You to take me,” she replied at once. “Not gonna happen!” I spat, squeezing him possessively. Three sets of widened eyes fixed on me. That’s when I realized that what I had a firm grip on was no longer his hand.
— Jeaniene Frost, Halfway to the Grave
The Heart wants what it wants - or else it does not care
— Emily Dickinson
Wisdom is knowing I am nothing,Love is knowing I am everything,and between the two my life moves.
— Nisargadatta Maharaj
Being in love with someone who doesn't even know you exist isn't the worst thing in the world. In fact, it's quite the oppostie. Almost like passing in a term paper that you know sucked, but having that period of time where you haven't gotten your grade back yet -- that kind of exhale where you haven't been rejected, although you pretty much know how it's going to turn out.
— Tonya Hurley, Ghostgirl
Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.
— Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd
I believe in the immeasurable power of love that true love can endure any circumstance and reach across any distance.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Hatred would have been easier. With hatred, I would have known what to do. Hatred is clear, metallic, one-handed, unwavering; unlike love.
— Margaret Atwood, CAT'S EYE.
I don't want to know about love.''But you should, my child. You need to know about love. The things people will do for love. All truths come down to love, do they not? One way or another, they do. See, there is a difference between love and need. Sometimes, what you feel is immediate and without rhyme or reason.' She sat up a little straighter. 'Two people see each across a room or their skin brushes. Their souls recognize the person as their own. It doesn’t need time to figure it. The soul always knows... whether it’s right or wrong.
— Jennifer L. Armentrout, Half-Blood
He then put both hands on the door on either side of my head and leaned in close, pinning me against it. I trembled like a downy rabbit caught in the clutches of a wolf. The wolf came closer. He bent his head and began nuzzling my cheek. The problem was…I wanted the wolf to devour me.
— Colleen Houck, Tiger's Curse
And I'm dying to know, is it killing you like it's killing me? And the story of us looks a lot like a tragedy now.
— Taylor Swift
It shattered something inside me that hadn't been broken before.
— E. Lockhart, The Boyfriend List: 15 Guys, 11 Shrink Appointments, 4 Ceramic Frogs and Me, Ruby Oliver
You have to, take a deep breath. and allow the music to flow through you. Revel in it, allow yourself to awe. When you play allow the music to break your heart with its beauty.
— Kelly White
A man in love can do extraordinary things, I don’t care if you’re an angel, you’re my angel, and I won’t let you go.
— Alexandra Adornetto, Halo
When you find love, you take it. You grab it with both hands and you do everything in your power not to let it go. You can’t just walk away from it and expect it to linger until you’re ready for it.
— Colleen Hoover, November 9
my mother, poor fish,wanting to be happy, beaten two or three times aweek, telling me to be happy: "Henry, smile!why don't you ever smile?"and then she would smile, to show me how, and it was thesaddest smile I ever saw
— Charles Bukowski
We stood there, looking at each other, saying nothing. But it was the kind of nothing that meant everything. In his eyes, there was no trace of what had happened between us earlier and I could feel something inside me break.So that was that. We were finally, finally over.I looked at him, and I felt so sad, because this thought occurred to me: 'I will never look at you the same way again. I'll never be that girl again. The girl who comes running back every time you push her away, the girl who loves you anyway.'I couldn’t even be mad at him, because this was who he was. This was who he’dalways been. He’d never lied about that. He gave and then he took away. I felt it in the pit of my stomach, the familiar ache, that lost, regretful feeling only he could give me. I never wanted to feel it again. Never, ever.Maybe this was why I came, so I could really know. So I could say good-bye.I looked at him, and I thought, 'If I was very brave or very honest, I would tell him.'I would say it, so he would know it and I would know it, and I could never take it back. But I wasn’t that brave or honest, so all I did was look at him. And I think he knew anyway.'I release you. I evict you from my heart. Because if I don't do it now, I never will.'I was the one to look away first.
— Jenny Han, It's Not Summer Without You
I have come from the End of the World. From the River of Dreams, through the gauntlet and the Briar and the Deep Wyld, in order to stand before you today. I have but one request—to take my place at your side. To resume my duty as your knight, and to protect you and your kingdom for as long as I draw breath.
— Julie Kagawa, The Iron Knight
Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.
— Joseph Fort Newton
A woman should soften but not weaken a man.
— Sigmund Freud
I want someone whose heart is big enough to hold me.
— Rainbow Rowell, Attachments
Because isn’t that the point of every relationship: to be known by someone else, to be understood? He gets me. She gets me. Isn’t that the simple magic phrase?
— Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
I'll understand if you don't want me. But I will be heartbroken. You are all I ever dreamed of and hoped for. You are much, much more. Please know that I didn't think I was mean-minded. But I realize I am. I don't want you to put your arms around me and say it's all right, that you forgive me. I want you to be sure that you do, and my love for you will last as long as I live. I can see no lightness, no humour, no joke to make. I just hope that we will be able to go back to when we had laughter, and the world was coloured, not black and white and grey. I am so sorry for hurting you. I could inflict all kinds of pain on myself, but it would not take back any I gave to you. - David Power
— Maeve Binchy, Echoes
sometimes no matter how many eyelashes or dandelion seeds you blow, no matter how much of your heart you tear out and slap on your sleeve, it just ain't gonna happen.
— Melissa Jensen, The Fine Art of Truth or Dare
I'd like to get away from earth awhileAnd then come back to it and begin over.May no fate wilfully misunderstand meAnd half grant what I wish and snatch me awayNot to return. Earth's the right place for love:I don't know where it's likely to go better.
— Robert Frost, Birches
Love me like you'll never see me again.
— Alicia Keys
Everyone has something of beauty about them. But loving lets you look, and look, and look again. You notice the back of a hand, the turn of a head, the way of a walk. When you first love, you look blind and you see it all as the glorious, beloved whole, or a beautiful sum of beautiful parts. But when you see the one you love as pieces, as why's, you can love those parts too, and it's a love at once more complicated and more complete.
— Ally Condie, Crossed
A best friend is the only one that walks into your life when the world has walked out.
— Shannon L. Alder
Because I’ve got a lot more terms of endearment to use. Honey pie. Sugarplum. Bread pudding."“Why are they all high-calorie foods?
— Richelle Mead, The Indigo Spell
Love demands everything, they say, but my love demands only this: that no matter what happens or how long it takes, you`ll keep faith in me, you`ll remember who we are, and you`ll never feel despair.
— Ann Brashares, My Name Is Memory
I would lay down everything I possess, even my soul, for you. If that isn't love, it's the best I have.
— Becca Fitzpatrick, Silence
I have loved you all my life, Mal," I whispered through my tears. "There is no end to our story.
— Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm
He was too perfect, despite being one of the most imperfect people I knew.
— Richelle Mead, The Indigo Spell
When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
— Mark Twain, Notebook
Who knows? Maybe they’re right. Maybe we are driven crazy by our feelings. Maybe love is a disease, and we would be better off without it. But we have chosen a different road. And in the end that is the point of escaping the cure: We are free to choose.We are even free to choose the wrong thing.
— Lauren Oliver, Requiem
There is emotion in the hug, and there is respect and a form of love. Emotion that comes from honesty, respect that comes from challenge, and the form of love that exists between people whose minds have touched, whose hearts have touched, whose souls have touched. Our minds touched. Our hearts touched. Our souls touched.We separate.
— James Frey, A Million Little Pieces
That’s love: Two lonely persons keep each other safe and touch each other and talk to each other.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
I want you to knowone thing. You know how this is: if I look at the crystal moon, at the red branch of the slow autumn at my window, if I touch near the fire the impalpable ash or the wrinkled body of the log, everything carries me to you, as if everything that exists, aromas, light, metals, were little boats that sail toward those isles of yours that wait for me. Well, now, if little by little you stop loving me I shall stop loving you little by little. If suddenly you forget me do not look for me, for I shall already have forgotten you. If you think it long and mad, the wind of banners that passes through my life, and you decide to leave me at the shore of the heart where I have roots, remember that on that day, at that hour, I shall lift my arms and my roots will set off to seek another land. But if each day, each hour, you feel that you are destined for me with implacable sweetness, if each day a flower climbs up to your lips to seek me, ah my love, ah my own, in me all that fire is repeated, in me nothing is extinguished or forgotten, my love feeds on your love, beloved, and as long as you live it will be in your arms without leaving mine.
— Pablo Neruda, If You Forget Me
I'll be your family now," he says. "I love you," I say. (....)He stares at me. I wait with my hands clutching his arms for stability as he considers his response. He frowns at me. "Say it again.""Tobias," I say, "I love you.
— Veronica Roth, Insurgent
Just because love don't look the way you think it should, don't mean you don't have it.
— Leslye Walton, The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender
She was the kind of girlfriend God gives you young, so you'll know loss the rest of your life.
— Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
I want YOU to be the one wanting me first. Pushing me first. Kissing me first. Don't be careful with me," he said. "Because I won't be careful with you.
— Michelle Hodkin, The Evolution of Mara Dyer
What should I do about the wild and the tame? The wild heart that wants to be free, and the tame heart that wants to come home. I want to be held. I don't want you to come too close. I want you to scoop me up and bring me home at nights. I don't want to tell you where I am. I want to keep a place among the rocks where no one can find me. I want to be with you.
— Jeanette Winterson
What you are is a fucking tragedy, Simon Snow. You literally couldn't be a bigger mess."He tries to kiss me, but I pull back- "And you like that?""I love it." He says"Why?""Because we match.
— Rainbow Rowell, Carry On
Love takes off the masks we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
— James     Baldwin
One of the best times for figuring out who you are & what you really want out of life? Right after a break-up.
— Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive—to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love—then make that day count!
— Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
Before I fellin love with words,with setting skies and singing birds—it was you I fellin love with first.
— Lang Leav, Love & Misadventure
I wanted to be his life preserver, the thing that would keep him afloat. Instead, he became my anchor. And I’m tired of drowning.
— Amanda Grace, But I Love Him
This thing about you that you think is your flaw - it's the reason I'm falling in love with you.
— Colleen Hoover, Slammed
God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites so that you will have two wings to fly, not one
— Jalaluddin Rumi, The Essential Rumi
If love is blind, then maybe a blind person that loves has a greater understanding of it.
— Criss Jami, Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile
You might be looking for reasons but there are no reasons.
— Nina LaCour, Hold Still