"I think... if it is true that
there are as many minds as there
are heads, then there are as many
kinds of love as there are hearts."
— Leo Tolstoy (Anna Karenina)

""You don't have to say I love you to say I love you," you said with a shrug. "All you have to do is say my name and I know."

..."Can't you hear it?" you said. "When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth.""
— Jodi Picoult

"Besides the obvious difference, there was not much distinction between losing a best friend and losing a lover: it was all about intimacy. One moment, you had someone to share your biggest triumphs and fatal flaws with; the next minute, you had to keep them bottled inside. One moment, you'd start to call her to tell her a snippet of news or to vent about your awful day before realizing you did not have that right anymore; the next, you could not remember the digits of her phone number. "
— Jodi Picoult

"For what is love itself, for the one we love best? - an enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love."
— George Eliot (Daniel Deronda)

"I smiled at him as best I could and pushed the paper across the table before he could change his mind. Because Henry DeVille was correct - there was an ingredient in my baking more concenctrated than any extract, more pungent than any spice; an ingredient that everyone would recognize and no one was able to name: it was regret, and it rose when one least expected. "
— Jodi Picoult

""Hello, Halberstam," Owen says, walking by.
"Hello, Owen," I say, admiring the way he's styled and slicked back his hair, with a part so even and sharp it... devastates me and I make a mental note to ask him where he purchases his hair-care products, which kind of mousse he uses, my final guesses after mulling over the possibilities being Ten-X."
— Bret Easton Ellis (American Psycho)

"The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else."
— Carson McCullers (The Square Root of Wonderful)

"I care so much about everything that I care about nothing"
— William Saroyan (My Heart's in the Highlands)

"'Such a number of nights,' said the girl, with a touch of woman's tenderness, which communicated something like sweetness of tone, even to her voice; 'such a number of nights as I've been patient with you, nursing and caring for you, as if you had been a child: and this the first that I've seen you like yourself; you wouldn't have served me as you did just now, if you'd thought of that, would you? Come, come; say you wouldn't.""
— Charles Dickens (Oliver Twist)

"Remain faithful to the earth, my brothers, with the power of your virtue. Let your gift-giving love and your knowledge serve the meaning of the earth. Thus I beg and beseech you. Do not let them fly away from earthly things and beat with their wings against eternal walls. Alas, there has always been so much virtue that has flown away. Lead back to the earth the virtue that flew away, as I do—back to the body, back to life, that it may give the earth a meaning, a human meaning."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do."
— A. J. Kitt

"Naruto: I bet you're dying to know my name!
Gaara: I couldn't care less."
— Masashi Kishimoto

"...people always grow more foolish, unless they take care to grow wiser and wiser..."
— Nathaniel Hawthorne (A Wonder Book: Heroes and Monsters of Greek Mythology)

"I think you deserve to be taken care of, for a change."
— Kevin 27 dresses