"I realized how truly hard it was, really, to see someone you love change right before your eyes. Not only is it scary, it throws your balance off as well."

"This I want to believe implicitly: Man was born for love and revolution."

"Love is too precious to be ashamed of."

"If you love someone, you must be prepared to set them free."

"They've got no idea what happiness is, they don't know that without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us--there is no life."

"For women, the best aphrodisiacs are words. The G-spot is in the ears. He who looks for it below there is wasting his time."

"Annabeth pressed her lips to Percy’s ear. “I love you.”She wasn’t sure he could hear her—but if they died, she wanted those to be her last words."

"I desire to be with you. I miss you. I feel lonely when I can't see you. I am obsessed with you, fascinated by you, infatuated with you. I hunger for your taste, your smell, the feel of your soul touching mine."

"..."better to have loved and lost" bullshit. Don't show me paradise and then burn it down."

"When God knows you're ready for the responsibility of commitment, He'll reveal the right person under the right circumstances."

"When you feel someone else's pain and joy as powerfully as if it were your own, then you know you really loved them."

"That's when you know for sure somebody loves you. They figure out what you need and they give it to you -- without you asking."

"One more secret smile. One more shared laugh. One more electric kiss. Finding him was like finding someone I didn't know I was searching for."

"That's how you know you love someone, I guess, when you can't experience anything without wishing the other person were there to see it, too."

"The first time he'd held her hand, it felt so good that it crowded out all the bad things. It felt better than anything had ever hurt."

"He was my North, my South, my East and West,My working week and my Sunday rest,My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong."

"Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying you’re friends is easy. Being friends is not."

"Close your eyes and I'll kiss you, Tomorrow I'll miss you."

"Autumn is the hardest season. The leaves are all falling, and they're falling likethey're falling in love with the ground."

"What irritated me most in that entire situation was the fact that Iwasn’t feeling humiliated, or annoyed, or even fooled. Betrayal waswhat I felt, my heart broken not just by a guy I was in love with, butalso by, as I once believed, a true friend."

"Loving someone is giving them the power to break your heart, but trusting them not to."

"Only the united beat of sex and heart together can create ecstasy."