"I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
"You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection"
- Sharon Salzberg
"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."
- Audrey Niffenegger
"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."
- Carl Sagan
"I'm not sentimental--I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know,is that the sentimental person thinks things will last--the romanticperson has a desperate confidence that they won't."
"A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved."
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
"When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew."
- Arrigo Boito
"What she had realized was that love was that moment when your heart was about to burst."
- Stieg Larsson
"I know we're fucked up, alright? I'm impulsive, and hot tempered, and you get under my skin like no one else. You act like you hate me one minute, and then need me the next. I never get anything right..."
- Jamie McGuire
"Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward."
- E.E. Cummings