Love is always being given where it is not required.
—E. M. Forster
Do not seek the because—in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
—Anaïs Nin
Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret.
—Aphra Behn
If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.
—W. H. Auden
This was the kind of hurt that could only be inflicted by someone you loved, who you thought loved you. It was sort of like being stabbed from the inside out.
—Kami Garcia in Beautiful Darkness
The mind I love must have wild places, a tangled orchard where dark damsons drop in the heavy grass, an overgrown little wood, the chance of a snake or two, a pool that nobody's fathomed the depth of, and paths threaded with flowers planted by the mind.
—Katherine Mansfield
Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley
Women are made to be loved, not understood.
—Oscar Wilde
Be brave, young lovers, and follow your star.
—Oscar Hammerstein II
Ultimately, we wish the joy of perfect union with the person we love.
—Mortimer Adler
I'll probably always love him. Doesn't mean I can ever trust him again. That doesn't make a relationship.
—Abbi Glines in Until The End
Everyone should get to experience a love like that. That kind of love that makes us better people.
—R.K. Lilley in Grounded
Feelings, who needs them? Sometimes they're like a gift, when you feel love or happiness. Sometimes they're a curse.
—John Marsden in The Dead of Night
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
—Victor Hugo
A love like that makes you better, even if you lose it all, even if it was for one precious moment in your life, you can't be sorry that you had it.
—R.K. Lilley in Mr. Beautiful