“Love like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with soaking joy. But sometimes, under the angry heat of life, love dries on the surface and must nourish from below, tending to its roots, keeping itself alive.”
– Mitch Albom
“He loved her for almost everything she was & she decided that was enough to let him stay for a very long time.”
– Brian Andreas
“First best is falling in love. Second best is being in love. Least best is falling out of love. But any of it is better than never having been in love.”
– Maya Angelou
“Close your eyes and I’ll kiss you, Tomorrow I’ll miss you.”
– Paul McCartney
“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring.”
– Oscar Wilde
“You had to know a person well to make them laugh like that.”
– Cassandra Clare
“The saddest thing about love, Joe, is that not only the love cannot last forever, but even the heartbreak is soon forgotten.”
– William Faulkner
“I’m here not because I am supposed to be here, or because I’m trapped here, but because I’d rather be with you than anywhere else in the world.”
– Richard Bach
“He looked so lost, so soulful, so lonely. I wanted him to kiss me now. I wanted to let him know I was his for all eternity.”
– Ellen Schreiber
“Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying you’re friends is easy. Being friends is not.”
– David Levithan
“I bet you could sometimes find all the mysteries of the universe in someone’s hand.”
– Benjamin Alire Sáenz
“Six hundred and forty fish later, the only thing I know is everything you love will die. The first time you meet someone special, you can count on them one day being dead and in the ground.”
– Chuck Palahniuk
“She craved a presence beside her, solid. Fingertips light at the nape of her neck and a voice meeting hers in the dark. Someone who would wait with an umbrella to walk her home in the rain, and smile like sunshine when he saw her coming. Who would dance with her on her balcony, keep his promises and know her secrets, and make a tiny world wherever he was, with just her and his arms and his whisper and her trust.”
– Laini Taylor
“Why are you leaving me? He wrote, I do not know how to live. I do not know either but I am trying. I do not know how to try. There were some things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So i buried them and let them hurt me”
– Jonathan Safran Foer