“It's love this and love that but of couse it's so easy to love someone you don't know, whether it's George Clooney or Monkey. Staying civil to someone with whom you've ever shared Christmas turkey- now there's a miracle.”

“Loving's pretty easy. It's letting someone love you that's hard.”

Rita Mae Brown (1944) Novelist, poet, screenwriter, activist

“I was a fool! Loving someone who doesn't love you is hell! Don't ever let anyone convince you that you can be happy with someone who doesn't love you.”

Judith McNaught (1944) American writer

“There's someone who's loved you forever but you don't know it.”

Kate Bush (1958) British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer

“Every day you're alive and someone loves you is a miracle.”

Rita Mae Brown (1944) Novelist, poet, screenwriter, activist

“When you've never gotten love from someone, you don't know what it might look like if it ever does appear. You look for it in everything: any bright light overhead could be a star.”

Sarah Dessen book The Moon and More

“To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.”

Francois Mauriac (1885–1970) French author

“You love someone, you've got to let something go.”

Mark Haddon book A Spot of Bother

“Nothing is more tragic than loving someone to the depths of your soul and knowing they cannot and will not ever love you back.”

Rick Riordan book The Hidden Oracle

“She knows what it's like to love someone who cannot love you back. Someone who needs you, holds you, yes, but someone who will never know that love is the knife in your heart.”

John Dufresne (1948) Novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, playwright