"A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you."
- Elbert Hubbard
"Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are h..."
- Louise Erdrich
"Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell."
- Joan Crawford
"Be careful of love. It'll twist your brain around and leave you thinking up is down and right is wrong."
- Rick Riordan
"Welcome to the wonderful world of jealousy, he thought. For the price of admission, you get a splitting headache, a nearly irresistable urge to commit murder, and an inferiority complex. Yippee."
- J.R. Ward
"We're staying together," he promised. "You're not getting away from me. Never again."
"The world was collapsing, and the only thing that really mattered to me was that she was alive."
"In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it’s impossible to really understand somebody, what they wan..."
- Orson Scott Card
"You’re in a car with a beautiful boy, and he won’t tell you that he loves you, but he loves you. And you feel like you’ve done something terrible, like robbed a liquor store, or swallowed pills, or sh..."
- Richard Siken
"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 w..."