Love

Sometimes you have to try to forget people you love just so you can keep living.

—Jacqueline Woodson in Between Madison and Palmetto

Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.

—Fran Lebowitz

Any fool can love somebody who's perfect, somebody who does everything right. But that doesn't stretch your soul. Your soul only gets stretched when you can still love somebody after they've hurt you.

—Susan Elizabeth Phillips in Hot Shot

Love doesn't let you walk away clean. Love is messy. Love takes a piece of you before it's done.

—R.K. Lilley in Lovely Trigger

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

—Francis of Assisi

When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.

—Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I never stopped loving you. I wanted to. It would have been easier. But I can't turn it off with a switch.

—Abbi Glines in Until The End

Love doesn't come along too often. Believe me, I know. When it does, only the foolish let it fade.

—H.M. Ward in Demon Kissed

I can live without money, but I cannot live without love.

—Judy Garland

He was the closest thing I'd ever had to something, or someone, that mattered. But in the end, close didn't count. You were either in, or you weren't.

—Sarah Dessen in Along for the Ride

A family's not the people that you were born to. A family's who you choose to love.

—Melanie Shawn in Forever Us

She wasn't interested in starting a relationship. Love made people act like idiots. She didn't have time for that.

—Leia Shaw in Boy Meets Nerd

He believed he was in love with her, if he knew what love was.

—Tim LaHaye in Tribulation Force

It all comes down to this: when you recognise your loneliness in another person, when you see desperation so familiar to yours written across someone else, you can't just let them leave.

—Chloe Rattray in Sacré Noir