Never a lip is curved with pain that can't be kissed into smiles again.
—Bret Harte
Love is when the desire to be desired takes you so badly that you feel you could die of it.
—Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
We can let go of the person or love or friendship without letting go of the lesson.
—Mandy Hale in The Single Woman
Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee.
—John Gay
Falling in love is not a rational process. It can’t be planned or avoided. It happens—for good or bad, it simply happens. I knew he’d eventually leave. I knew we couldn’t be together, but I fell anyway.
—Suzanne Selfors in Coffeehouse Angel
The crime of loving is forgetting.
—Maurice Chevalier
Sometimes I would open my eyes when we were kissing, I would watch him and I could see it. I could actually see love—not words, not an emotion, not an abstract concept or a subjective state of mind, but a living, breathing thing.
—Tiffanie DeBartolo in How to Kill a Rock Star
Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
—Jean de La Fontaine
When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
—William Makepeace Thackeray
God I loved that man. Love flooded every cell in my body and I felt physically ill at the thought of never seeing him again.
—Courtney Cole in Every Last Kiss
There are so many ways to be brave in this world. Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved for the sake of something greater.
—Veronica Roth in Allegiant
A kiss that is never tasted, is forever and ever wasted.
—Billie Holiday
What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?
—Jacques Lacan
Fear has a smell, as love does.
—Margaret Atwood
Passionate love is not peculiar to the human species, for it penetrates through all existing things—celestial, elemental, vegetable, and mineral.
—Avicenna