- “Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.”
- “Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby- awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess.”
- “Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.”
- “Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.”
- “Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.”
- “A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.”
- “When someone is in your heart, they're never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times.”
- “Being with you never felt wrong. It's the one thing I did right. You're the one thing I did right.”
- “When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again.”
- “Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on. I hope you never have to think about anything as much as I think about you.”
- “I want to be in a relationship where you telling me you love me is just a ceremonious validation of what you already show me.”
- “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.”
- “I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: "Go down again - I dwell among the people.”
- “I wonder how many people don't get the one they want, but end up with the one they're supposed to be with.”
- “If you love something set it free, but don't be surprised if it comes back with herpes.”
- “I’ve been fighting to be who I am all my life. What’s the point of being who I am, if I can’t have the person who was worth all the fighting for?”
- “Sometimes when I'm alone, I take the pearl from where it lives in my pocket and try to remember the boy with the bread, the strong arms that warded off nightmares on the train, the kisses in the arena.”
- “sometimes you don't need a goal in life, you don't need to know the big picture. you just need to know what you're going to do next!”
- “Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.”
- “When I look in the mirror, I know I’m looking at someone who isn’t sure she deserves to be loved at all.”
- “About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all.”
- “For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.”
- “Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I can not live without my life! I can not live without my soul!”
- “To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.”
- “Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.”
- “When we meet someone and fall in love, we have a sense that the whole universe is on our side. And yet if something goes wrong, there is nothing left! How is it possible for the beauty that was there only minutes before to vanish so quickly? Life moves very fast. It rushes from heaven to hell in a matter of seconds.”
- “Even more, I had never meant to love him. One thing I truly knew - knew it in the pit of my stomach, in the center of my bones, knew it from the crown of my head to the soles of my feet, knew it deep in my empty chest - was how love gave someone the power to break you”
- “This is what we call love. When you are loved, you can do anything in creation. When you are loved, there's no need at all to understand what's happening, because everything happens within you.”
- “Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.”
- “We are not trapped or locked up in these bones. No, no. We are free to change. And love changes us. And if we can love one another, we can break open the sky.”
- “She was my dream. She made me who I am, and holding her in my arms was more natural to me than my own heartbeat. I think about her all the time. Even now, when I'm sitting here, I think about her. There could never have been another.”
- “Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything”
- “And next time you're planning to injure yourself to get me attention, just remember that a little sweet talk works wonders.”
- “Holding Eleanor's hand was like holding a butterfly. Or a heartbeat. Like holding something complete, and completely alive.”
- “The world was collapsing, and the only thing that really mattered to me was that she was alive.”
- “In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.”
- “In a perfect world, you could fuck people without giving them a piece of your heart. And every glittering kiss and every touch of flesh is another shard of heart you’ll never see again.”
- “Someday you're gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You'll see that you were in mourning and your heart was broken, but your life was changing...”
- “The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.”
- “There is only one page left to write on. I will fill it with words of only one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love.”
- “I, um, I have this problem. I broke up with my boyfriend, you see. And I'm pretty upset about it, so I wanted to talk to my best friend. [...] The thing is, they're both you.”
- “People have forgotten this truth," the fox said. "But you mustn’t forget it. You become responsible forever for what you’ve tamed. You’re responsible for your rose.”
- “Someday you'll find someone special again. People who've been in love once usually do. It's in their nature.”
- “I wondered what happened when you offered yourself to someone, and they opened you, only to discover you were not the gift they expected and they had to smile and nod and say thank you all the same.”
- “I'll fight it. I'll fight it for you. Don't you worry about me, Hazel Grace. I'm okay. I'll find a way to hang around and annoy you for a long time.”
- “Why are old lovers able to become friends? Two reasons. They never truly loved each other, or they love each other still.”
- “We're staying together," he promised. "You're not getting away from me. Never again.”
- “I know that's what people say-- you'll get over it. I'd say it, too. But I know it's not true. Oh, youll be happy again, never fear. But you won't forget. Every time you fall in love it will be because something in the man reminds you of him.”
- “Afterward, I had the last laugh. I made an air bubble at the bottom of the lake. Our friends kept waiting for us to come up, but hey-when you are the son of Poseidon, you don't have to hurry. And it was pretty much the best underwater kiss of all time.”
- “If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.”
- “Romance is thinking about your significant other, when you are supposed to be thinking about something else.”
- “Love is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise. If love were only a feeling, there would be no basis for the promise to love each other forever. A feeling comes and it may go. How can I judge that it will stay forever, when my act does not involve judgment and decision.”