“Love…is more than three words mumbled before bedtime. Love is sustained by action, a pattern of devotion in the things we do for each other every day.” – Nicholas Sparks, The Wedding

“The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.” – Philip James Bailey

“There ain’t really no words for love or pain.” – Gloria Naylor, Linden Hills

“The greatest lie ever told about love is that it sets you free.” – Zadie Smith

“Maybe there’s something you’re afraid to say, or someone you’re afraid to love, or somewhere you’re afraid to go. It’s gonna hurt. It’s gonna hurt because it matters.” – John Green and David Levithan, Will Grayson

“The greatest happiness is to transform one’s feelings into actions.” – Germaine De Stael

“Love is like the sea. It’s a moving thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from the shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.” – Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

“We don’t get to choose our own hearts. we can’t make ourselves want what’s good for us or what’s good for other people. We don’t get to choose the people we are.” – Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are.” – Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.” – James Baldwin