“I stood at one end of the room and watched him. Between us was a bed and a table and things in a hotel--you know, things that are anonymous and belong to no one. Like a sea or a life. And all I remember is how expensive it was. Not the room, but the feeling.”— Alex Dimitrov, theparisamerican.com
“He wished to be alone with his own thoughts for awhile — to try and resolve the meaning of this strange new emotion that possessed him, — a feeling that was half-pleasing, half-painful, and that certainly moved him to a sort of shame.”— Marie Corelli, amazon.com
“When I feel myself falling out of love with you, I turn the record of your laughter over, reposition the needle. I dust the dirty living room of your affection.”— Sierra Demulder, sierrademulder.tumblr.com
“There's a pleasure to loving someone even when you know there's no chance in them loving you back. The pain I felt lets me know I was still alive.”— Gabrielle Zevin, amazon.com
“You know you're in love with somebody when you wake up next to them, comfortable despite your breath smelling like the week-old water at the bottom of a vase, when you are terribly excited to see them, to talk to them again, having missed them after all that sleep.”— Elliot Perlman, amazon.com
“Falling in love feels amazing, but it's also terrifying. The moment you admit to loving someone, you admit to having a lot to lose.”— Mandy Len Catron, ted.com
“...she was terrific to hold hands with. Most girls if you hold hands with them, their goddam hand dies on you, or else they think they have to keep moving their hand all the time, as if they were afraid they'd bore you or something. Jane was different. We'd get into a goddam movie or something, and…”— J. D. Salinger, amazon.com
“Maybe love is like rain. Sometimes gentle, sometimes torrential, flooding, eroding, joyful, steady, filling the earth, collecting in underground springs. When it rains, when we love, life grows.”— Carol Gilligan, amazon.com