“Love is like a brick. You can build a house, or you can sink a dead body.”
– Lady Gaga
“The soul is healed by being with children.”
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“When you love someone you let them take care of you.”
– Jodi Picoult
“I think we ought to live happily ever after.”
– Diana Wynne Jones
“Love, it never dies. It never goes away, it never fades, so long as you hang on to it. Love can make you immortal”
– Gayle Forman
“I have never found anybody who could stand to accept the daily demonstrative love I feel in me, and give back as good as I give.”
– Sylvia Plath
“I know my heart will never be the same But I’m telling myself I’ll be okay”
– Sara Evans
“One day, when I am a braver man, I will tell her these things, and then I will look her in the eye tell her I love her and ask her to be only mine. But until that day, we’re just friends.”
– Charlie Huston
“I don’t know what they are called, the spaces between seconds– but I think of you always in those intervals.”
– Salvador Plascencia
“In youth, it was a way I had, To do my best to please. And change, with every passing lad To suit his theories.
But now I know the things I know And do the things I do, And if you do not like me so, To hell, my love, with you.”
– Dorothy Parker
“And to the devil with it if she is!” said the Consul. “One girl, who is not Nephilim, is not, cannot, be our priority.”
“She is my priority!” Will shouted.”
– Cassandra Clare
“He stared at her, knowing with certainty that he was falling in love. He pulled her close and kissed her beneath a blanket of stars, wondering how on earth he’d been lucky enough to find her.”
– Nicholas Sparks
“This is not a goodbye, my darling, this is a thank you. Thank you for coming into my life and giving me joy, thank you for loving me and receiving my love in return. Thank you for the memories I will cherish forever. But most of all, thank you for showing me that there will come a time when I can eventually let you go.
I love you, T.”
– Nicholas Sparks
“Is it possible, in the final analysis, for one human being to achieve perfect understanding of another?
We can invest enormous time and energy in serious efforts to know another person, but in the end, how close can we come to that person’s essence? We convince ourselves that we know the other person well, but do we really know anything important about anyone?”
– Haruki Murakami