“You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways.”

“I know how you are with your words, and, Will- I love all of them. Every word you say. The silly ones, the mad ones, the beautiful ones, and the ones that are only for me. I love them, and I love you." - Tessa Gray”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

“I think that hurting gives us a way to measure being happy. How can you know one without knowing the other.”

Lurlene McDaniel (1944) American writer

“To say "I love you" one must know first how to say the "I".”

Ayn Rand book The Fountainhead

“Shower the people you love with love.
Show them the way that you feel.
Things are gonna work out fine if you only will (do as I say, yeah).
Shower the people you love with love.
Show them the way that you feel.
Things are gonna be much better if you only will.”

James Taylor (1948) American singer-songwriter and guitarist

“We're One but We're not the same. Well, We hurt each other and We'll do it again. You say love is a temple, Love a higher law. Love is a temple, Love a higher law. You ask Me to enter, then You make Me crawl. And I can't be holding on to what you got, when all You've got is hurt.”

Bono (1960) Irish rock musician, singer of U2

“You know love is everything you say;
a whisper, a word,
promises you give.
You feel it in the heartbeat of the day.
You know this is the way love is.”

Enya (1961) Irish singer, songwriter, and musician

“You say you’re? Sure that you’re in love? How can you know it? You think love is so simple?”

Kazuo Ishiguro book Never Let Me Go

“Well you say that it's gospel,
But I know that it's only church.”

Tom Waits (1949) American singer-songwriter and actor

“I know what it's like to want to die. How it hurts to smile. How you try to fit in but you can't. How you hurt yourself on the outside to try to kill the thing on the inside.”

Susanna Kaysen (1948) American writer