“All at once we were madly, clumsily, shamelessly, agonizingly in love with each other; hopelessly, I should add...”— Vladimir Nabokov, amazon.com
“Whatever you love passionately always destroys you in the end. But how can I explain what has happened to me? How can I make anyone even understand that I can write about it? I don’t know, I don’t know any more; all I know is that it is so.”— Guy de Maupassant, amazon.com
“I hope you know that no one will love you like I did. That's not bitter, or resentful, it's just the truth.”— Azra T., 5000letters.tumblr.com
“Some days I miss you so much I’d jump off the roof of your office building just to catch a glimpse of you on the way down.”— Jeffrey MCDaniel, amazon.com
“...but his love was too much for him, he felt paralyzed, he wanted to sleep inside her lungs and breathe her blood and be smothered.”— Tim O’Brien, amazon.com
“I could build a future between your thighs then look into your eyes trying to find my own private history channel with a life long documentary on whether or not this was meant to be and I don’t want to turn any of this into poetry but you’re so beautiful flowers turn their heads to smell you. And wh…”— Shane Koyczan, amazon.com
“I have made this mistake in my life...not once but twice I have loved someone more than my heart would bear.”— Sebastian Faulks, amazon.com
“I have been thinking of how I want to be touched by you, with hands that will play me like piano keys, with fingers that will make a symphony out of me.”— Karese Burrows, amazon.com
“And I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more.”— Franz Kafka, amazon.com
“But she loved him, too, with a ferocity that eventually forced her to leave him. They fought each other with the kind of graceful anger that only love can create. Still, their love was passionate, unpredictable, and selfish.’”— Sherman Alexie, amazon.com