“Why does loving somebody mean you have to hurt them just as much? I mean, if that's the way it goes,what's the point of loving someone? Why the hell does it have to be like that?”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus.”— Emma Goldman, amazon.com
“Now look at whoever is next to you. Look at them with eyes of joy and remember what St. Augustine said: 'If you want to see God, you have the means to do it.' God is love.”— Tony Grisoni, Paolo Sorrentino, Lenny Belardo, Jude Law, imdb.com
“No doubt very few people understand the purely subjective nature of the phenomenon that we call love, or how it creates, so to speak, a supplementary person, distinct from the person whom the world knows by the same name, a person most of whose constituent elements are derived from ourselves.”— Marcel Proust, amazon.com
“We are only just beginning to understand the power of love because we are just beginning to understand the weakness of force and aggression.”— B.F. Skinner, amazon.com
“In the end, love comes down to a decision. You have to consciously decide that you love your partner, and you need to decide this every day for the rest of your shared life.”— Paul Hudson, elitedaily.com
“'Sometimes I don't get you,' I said. She didn't even glance at me. She just smiled toward the television and said, 'You'll never get me. That's the whole point.'”— John Green, Miles 'Pudge' Halter, amazon.com