“When love is not madness, it is not love.”

“"I have something I need to tell you," he says. I run my fingers along the tendons in his hands and look back at him. "I might be in love with you." He smiles a little. "I'm waiting until I'm sure to tell you, though."”

“In the darkness, two shadows reach through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun.”

“It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.”

“She'd laughed, and if he could have bottled the sound and gotten drunk on it every night, he would have. It terrified him.”

“It's all right to love someone who doesn't love you back, as long as they're worth you loving them. As long as they deserve it.”

“I will have you without armor, Kaz Brekker. Or I will not have you at all.”

“All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being, not just with my hands but with my heart.”

“And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love.”

“They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.”

“It is good to love many things; therein lies the true strength. Whosoever loves much performs much, can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.”

“I'm coming back into focus when Caesar asks him if he has a girlfriend back home. Peeta hesitates, then gives an unconvincing shake of his head.”

“The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them — words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out. But it's more than that, isn't it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you've said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. That's the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a teller but for want of an understanding ear.”

“Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.”

“"Do you remember back at the hotel when you promised that if we lived, you'd get dressed up in a nurse's outfit and give me a sponge bath?" asked Jace. "It was Simon who promised you the sponge bath." "As soon as I'm back on my feet, handsome," said Simon. "I knew we should have left you a rat."”

“My daddy said that the first time you fall in love, it changes you forever, and no matter how hard you try, that feeling never goes away.”

“I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.”

“You know, you could live a thousand lifetimes and not deserve him.”

“What happens when people open their hearts?”

“Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.”

“"Why did you do all this for me?" he asked. "I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you." "You have been my friend," replied Charlotte. "That in itself is a tremendous thing."”

“The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.”

“Love doesn't just sit there like a stone; it has to be made like bread, remade all the time, made new.”

“If you love somebody, let them go. If they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were.”

“I don't want to lose the boy with the bread.”

“There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.”

“I have decided to stick to love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.”

“People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that’s bullshit. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they’re afraid to feel? Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they’re wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It’s all in how you carry it. That’s what matters. Pain is a feeling. Your feelings are a part of you. Your own reality. If you feel ashamed of them, and hide them, you’re letting society destroy your reality. You should stand up for your right to feel your pain.”

“How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.”

“I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person.”

“I think if I've learned anything about friendship, it's to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don't walk away, don't be distracted, don't be too busy or tired, don't take them for granted. Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff.”

“Love is so short, forgetting is so long.”

“If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.”

“They didn't agree on much. In fact, they didn't agree on anything. They fought all the time and challenged each other every day. But despite their differences, they had one important thing in common. They were crazy about each other.”

“Hearts are made to be broken.”

“I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look, or the words which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.”

“Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.”

“"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife," I said, sighing. "Is it?" Veronica asked, surprised. "Universally acknowledged? Surely that presupposes societies beyond this planet, and besides..." "No, no, it's a quote from... Never mind," I said.”

“My nightmares are usually about losing you. I'm okay once I realize you're here.”

“What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicted to me. A mutual addiction.”

“Be careful of love. It'll twist your brain around and leave you thinking up is down and right is wrong.”

“Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is never rude or selfish. It does not take offense and is not resentful. Love takes no pleasure in other people's sins, but delights in the truth. It is always ready to excuse, to trust, to hope, and to endure whatever comes.”

“"May I see you again?" he asked. There was an endearing nervousness in his voice.”

“"Love conquers all," Aphrodite promised. "Look at Helen and Paris. Did they let anything come between them?" "Didn't they start the Trojan War and get thousands of people killed?" "Pfft. That's not the point. Follow your heart."”

“More smiling, less worrying. More compassion, less judgment. More blessed, less stressed. More love, less hate.”

“Is this the part where you say, "If I hurt her, you'll kill me?"”

“Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.”

“I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will not ask, "How many good things have you done in your life?" Rather he will ask, "How much love did you put into what you did?"”

“Two people in love, alone and isolated from the world. That's beautiful.”

“I have found the paradox that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.”