“When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth.”

“People always say that, when you love someone, nothing in the world matters. But that's not true, is it? You know, and I know, that when you love someone, everything in the world matters a little b...”

“I think you can love a person too much.You put someone up on a pedestal, and all of a sudden, from that perspective, you notice what's wrong - a hair out of place, a run in a stocking, a broken bon...”

“All any of us wanted, really, was to know that we counted. That someone else's life would not have been as rich without us here.”

“What we all want, really, is to be loved. That craving drives our worst behavior.”

“Here's a news flash for the ladies: for every one of you who thinks we all want a girl like Angelina Jolie, all skinny elbows and angles, the truth is, we'd rather curl up with someone like Charlot...”

“If we don't fight for what we 'stand for' with our passionate words and honest actions, do we really 'stand' for anything?”

“The ancestor of every action is a thought.”

“You don't have to say I love you to say I love you.”

“I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.”

“I had not intended to love him; the reader knows I had wrought hard to extirpate from my soul the germs of love there detected; and now, at the first renewed view of him, they spontaneously revived...”

“We cultivate love when we allow our most vulnerable and powerful selves to be deeply seen and known, and when we honor the spiritual connection that grows from that offering with trust, respect, ki...”