“Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.”
– Rumi
“True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone – we find it with another.”
– Thomas Merton
“Statistically speaking, there is a 65 percent chance that the love of your life is having an affair. Be very suspicious.”
– Scott Dikkers
“But grief makes a monster out of us sometimes . . . and sometimes you say and do things to the people you love that you can’t forgive yourself for.”
– Melina Marchetta
“Missing someone, they say, is self-centered. I self-center you more than ever.”
– Saša Stanišic
“Any happiness, no matter how brief, seemed better than the long, simmering torture of waking up day after day, knowing I could never have him.”
– Becca Fitzpatrick
“I want you any way I can get you. Not because you’re beautiful or clever or kind or adorable, although devil knows you’re all those things. I want you because there’s no one else like you, and I don’t ever want to start a day without seeing you.”
– Lisa Kleypas
“At the end of the day it’s about how much you can bear, how much you can endure. Being together, we harm nobody; being apart, we extinguish ourselves.”
– Tabitha Suzuma
“You can live your whole life not realizing that what you’re looking for is right in front of you.”
– David Nicholls
“He sighed and then focused his eyes right on me. It was like drowning, drowning in seas of green. There was nothing in the world except for those eyes.
“I want to kiss you, Rose,” he said softly. “And I want you to want me too.”
– Richelle Mead
“Actually that’s my secret — I can’t even talk about you to anybody because I don’t want any more people to know how wonderful you are.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Forever and ever, kid, until you’re sick and tired of seeing me.”
– Marie Lu
“She’s my kitten, and no one else’s.”
– Jeaniene Frost
“So I placed my heart under lock and key To take some time, and take care of me But I turn around and you’re standing here”
– Deborah Cox
“And you can’t love, not fully, unless you are loved in return.”
– Lauren Oliver
“He knew one of the women well, and had shared his universe with her. They had seen the same mountains, and the same trees, although each of them had seem them differently. She knew his weaknesses, his moments of hatred, of despair. Yet she was there at his side. They shared the same universe.”
– Paulo Coelho
“I’ll be looking for you, Will, every moment, every single moment. And when we do find each other again, we’ll cling together so tight that nothing and no one’ll ever tear us apart. Every atom of me and every atom of you… We’ll live in birds and flowers and dragonflies and pine trees and in clouds and in those little specks of light you see floating in sunbeams… And when they use our atoms to make new lives, they wont’ just be able to take one, they’ll have to take two, one of you and one of me, we’ll be joined so tight…”
– Philip Pullman