"I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
"I had not intended to love him; the reader knows I had wrought hard to extirpate from my soul the germs of love there detected; and now, at the first renewed view of him, they spontaneously revived, g..."
- Charlotte Brontë
"We cultivate love when we allow our most vulnerable and powerful selves to be deeply seen and known, and when we honor the spiritual connection that grows from that offering with trust, respect, kindn..."
- Brené Brown
"You know the reason The Beatles made it so big?...'I Wanna Hold Your Hand.' First single. Fucking brilliant. Perhaps the most fucking brilliant song ever written. Because they nailed it. That's what e..."
- David Levithan
"It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being."
- John Joseph Powell
"Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection."
- Jane Austen
"He wasn't the type for displays of affection, either verbal or not. He was disgusted by couples that made out in the hallways between classes, and got annoyed at even the slightest sappy moments in mo..."
- Sarah Dessen
"We are not people who touch each other carelessly; every point of contact between us feels important, a rush of energy and relief."
- Veronica Roth
"If equal affection cannot be,Let the more loving one be me."
- W.H. Auden
"Love is made up of three unconditional properties in equal measure:1. Acceptance2. Understanding3. AppreciationRemove any one of the three and the triangle falls apart.Which, by the way, is something ..."
- Vera Nazarian