+ "Without you in my arms, I feel an emptiness in my soul. I find myself searching the crowds for your face - I know it's an impossibility, but I cannot help myself."
— Nicholas Sparks (Message in a Bottle)
+ "If you listen to the wind very carefully, you'll be able to hear me whisper my love for you."
— Andrew Davidson
+ "The only way you can conquer me is through love and there I am gladly conquered"
— Krishna
+ "Love? It's when you don't give a thought to all the ifs and want-to's in the world. It's when if all the fires of hell were between you, you'd walk in them gladly to be with him, and sing with joy at your own burnin' if only his kiss was on your mouth."
— Stephanie Kallos (Broken for You)
+ "Kissing - and I mean like, yummy, smacking kissing - is the most delicious, most beautiful and passionate thing that two people can do, bar none. Better than sex, hands down. "
— Drew Barrymore
+ "Love binds, and it binds forever. Good binds while evil unravels. Separation is another word for evil; it is also another word for deceit."
— Michel Houellebecq (The Elementary Particles)
+ "Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise. "
— Samuel Johnson
+ "I have dreamed of our bed as if it were a shore where we would be washed up, not this striped mattress we must cover with sheets."
— Linda Pastan (The Imperfect Paradise: Poems)
+ "If you like her, if she makes you happy, and if you feel like you know her---then don't let her go."
— Nicholas Sparks (Message in a Bottle)
+ "I will never hurt you.
I will always help you.
If you are hungry
Ill give you my food.
If you are frightened
I am your friend.
I love you now.
And love does not end."
— Orson Scott Card (Songmaster)
+ "The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring."
— Oscar Wilde
+ "Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep burning, unquenchable."
— Henry Ward Beecher
+ "I basked in you;
I loved you, helplessly, with a boundless tongue-tied love.
And death doesn't prevent me from loving you.
Besides,
in my opinion you aren't dead.
(I know dead people, and you are not dead.)"
— Franz Wright (Walking to Martha's Vineyard)
+ "And you,
You can be mean
And I,
I'll drink all the time
'Cause we're lovers,
And that is a fact
Yes we're lovers,
And that is that"
— David Bowie
+ "They say what doesn't kill the soul will make you stronger, but you can't be a stone-hearted man."
— Anthony Green
+ "I am wholly yours - you are everything to me; we will sustain each other in all the ills of life it may please fate to inflict upon us; you will soothe my troubles; I will comfort you in yours."
— Denis Diderot
+ "But you cant shut everyone out. I mean you have to have someone to love. . .someone to hold on to. . . someone--"
— Hubert Selby Jr. (Requiem for a Dream)
+ "Love not often, but forever."
— Joanne Harris (Holy Fools)
+ "I told you. You don't love someone because of their looks or their clothes or their car. You love them because they sing a song only your heart can understand."
— L.J. Smith
+ "The way you're singing in your sleep
The way you look before you leap
The strange illusions that you keep
You don't know
But I'm noticing
The way your touch turns into arcs
The way you slide into the dark
The beating of my open heart
You don't know
But I'm noticing"
— David Levithan (Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist)
+ "Let this hell be our heaven."
— Richard Matheson (What Dreams May Come)
+ "I will love you always. When this...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 lines of every smile you have ever smiled, of every surprise I have seen flash through your eyes, when every tear you have 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..., and I will love you until the last breath leaves your body or mine."
— Laurell K. Hamilton (A Lick of Frost)
+ "Depression is the flaw in love. To be creatures who love, we must be creatures who can despair at what we lose, and depression is the mechanism of that despair."
— Andrew Solomon (The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression)
