I’ve always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.
– Leo Tolstoy
I Have Always Loved You

Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you’re wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn’t love you anymore.
– Lady Gaga

The real things haven’t changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong.
– Laura Ingalls Wilder

I will love you always. When this red hair is white, I will still love you. When the smooth softness of youth is replaced by the delicate softness of age, I will still want to touch your skin. When your face is full of the lines of every smile you have ever smiled, of every surprise I have seen flash through your eyes, when every tear you have ever cried has left its mark upon your face,I will treasure you all the more, because I was there to see it all. I will share your life with you, Meredith, and I will love you until the last breath leaves your body or mine.
– Laurell K. Hamilton

And now I know why they invented words for love, why they had to: It’s the only thing that can come close to describing what I feel in that moment, the baffling mixture of pain and pleasure and fear and joy, all running sharply through me at once.
– Lauren Oliver

I know that the whole point—the only point—is to find the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse to
let them go.
– Lauren Oliver

Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby- awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess.
– Lemony Snicket

It’s much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.
– Leo Tolstoy

It’s hard to love a woman and do anything.
– Leo Tolstoy

Anything is better than lies and deceit!
– Leo Tolstoy

Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be, and precisely what she desired, she did not know.
– Leo Tolstoy

Energy rests upon love; and come as it will, there’s no forcing it.
– Leo Tolstoy