"It's hard being left behind. (...) It's hard to be the one who stays. "
— Audrey Niffenegger (The Time Traveler's Wife)

"It’s dark now and I am very tired. I love you, always. Time is nothing."
— Audrey Niffenegger (The Time Traveler's Wife)

"One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving."
— Paulo Coelho

"So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you."
— Paulo Coelho

"Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly."
— Paulo Coelho

"If I am really a part of your dream, you'll come back one day."
— Paulo Coelho

"You are what you believe yourself to be."
— Paulo Coelho (The Witch of Portobello)

"We pretend to be strong because we are weak."
— Paulo Coelho

"Anyone who loves in the expectation of being loved in return is wasting their time."
— Paulo Coelho (The Devil and Miss Prym: A Novel of Temptation)

"A fall from the third floor hurts as much as a fall from the hundredth. If I have to fall, may it be from a high place."
— Paulo Coelho

"...we accept the love we think we deserve."
— Stephen Chbosky (The Perks of Being a Wallflower)

"Even more, I had never meant to love him. One thing I truly knew - knew it in the pit of my stomach, in the center of my bones, knew it from the crown of my head to the soles of my feet, knew it deep in my empty chest - was how love gave someone the power to break you.
I'd been broken beyond repair."
— Stephenie Meyer (New Moon)

"There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment."
— Sarah Dessen (The Truth About Forever)

"Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's beautiful."
— Milan Kundera

"To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable."
— C.S. Lewis (The Four Loves)

"I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love."
— Mother Teresa

"Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love."
— Albert Einstein

"I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride; so I love you because I know no other way."
— Pablo Neruda (100 Love Sonnets/Cien Sonetos De Amor)

"I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
— Marilyn Monroe

"The heart was made to be broken."
— Oscar Wilde

"Before you can be in a happy realationship with someone else,you must first be happy with yourself."
— markita

"A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you."
— Elbert Hubbard

"I'm here . . . which roughly translated means I would rather die than stay away from you. I'm an idiot."
— Stephenie Meyer (Twilight)

"I'll be back so soon you won't have time to miss me. Look after my heart - I've left it with you."
— Stephenie Meyer (Eclipse)

"If I could dream at all it would be about you. And I'm not ashamed of it."
— Stephenie Meyer (Twilight)

"I promise to love you forever—every single day of forever."
— Stephenie Meyer (Breaking Dawn)

"Love is irrational, I reminded myself. The more you loved someone, the less sense anything made."
— Stephenie Meyer (New Moon)

"When you can live forever what do you live for?"
— Stephenie Meyer

"I may not be human, but I am a man. -Edward Cullen"
— Stephenie Meyer (Twilight)

"I can't live in a world where you don't exist. - Bella Swan"
— Stephenie Meyer (Twilight)

"And it did not matter if he did not want me. I would never want anything but him, no matter how long I lived."
— Stephenie Meyer (New Moon)

"Women need to feel loved and men need to feel needed."
— Rita Mae Brown (Riding Shotgun)

"So, let me get this straight-- You want me to stop being a lesbian and being attracted to women because it is a 'sin'? Last time I checked, when you lie you are sinning. Sure, I could tell you I am no longer a lesbian or that I am no longer attracted to women and am straight, or I could even tell you the moon is made of cheese. I could tell you many things, but the moon will still not be made of cheese, and I will still not be attracted to men. I could tell you a lie in order to placate you, but isn’t the truth supposed to set me free? I choose truth over lies any day of the week. "
— Cristina Marrero

"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference."
— Elie Wiesel

"Things are only impossible until they're not."
— Jean-Luc Picard

"Before you Bella my life was like a moonless night. Very dark, but there were stars - points of light and reason. .... And then you shot across my sky like a meteor. Suddenly everything was on fire; there was brilliance, there was beauty. When you were gone, when the meteor had fallen over the horizon, everything went black. Nothing had changed, but my eyes were blinded by the light. I couldn't see the stars anymore. And there was no reason for anything."
— Stephenie Meyer

"There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough."
— Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook)

"You're going to come across people in your life who will say all the right words at all the right times. But in the end, it's always their actions you should judge them by. It's actions, not words, that matter."
— Nicholas Sparks

"So it's not gonna be easy. It's going to be really hard; we're gonna have to work at this everyday, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, everyday. You and me... everyday."
— Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook)

"You are, and always have been, my dream."
— Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook)

"We fell in love, despite our differences, and once we did, something rare and beautiful was created. For me, love like that has only happened once, and that's why every minute we spent together has been seared in my memory. I'll never forget a single moment of it."
— Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook)

"I love you more than there are stars in the sky and fish in the sea."
— Nicholas Sparks

"You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love."
— Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook)

"Without suffering, there'd be no compassion."
— Nicholas Sparks (A Walk to Remember)

"'I don't want to lose you.' His voice almost a whisper. Seeing his haggard expression, she took his hand and squeezed it, then reluctantly let it go. She could feel the tears again, and she fought them back. 'But you don't want to keep me, either, do you?' To that, he had no response."
— Nicholas Sparks (The Rescue)

"Duke: They didn’t agree on much. In fact, they didn’t agree on anything. They fought all the time and challenged each other ever day. But despite their differences, they had one important thing in common. They were crazy about each other."
— Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook)

"In time, the hurt began to fade and it was easier to just let it go. At least I thought it was. But in every boy I met in the next few years, I found myself looking for you, and when the feelings got too strong, I'd write you another letter. But I never sent them for fear of what I might find. By then, you'd gone on with your life and I didn't want to think about you loving someone else. I wanted to remember us like we were that summer. I didn't ever want to lose that."
— Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook)

"Summer romances end for all kinds of reasons. But when all is said and done, they have one thing in common: They are shooting stars-a spectacular moment of light in the heavens, a fleeting glimpse of eternity. And in a flash, they're gone."
— Nicholas Sparks

"People come, people go – they’ll drift in and out of your life, almost like characters in a favorite book. When you finally close the cover, the characters have told their story and you start up again with another book, complete with new characters and adventures. Then you find yourself focusing on the new ones, not the ones from the past."
— Nicholas Sparks (The Rescue)

"He was like a song I'd heard once in fragments but had been singing in my mind ever since."
— Arthur Golden (Memoirs of a Geisha)