“What kind of love would drive a man for miles through solid rock?”

“It was so quiet, a reservation kind of quiet, where you can hear somebody drinking whiskey on the rocks three miles away.”

Sherman Alexie book The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

“That he would love her no matter what she told him, and that he was the kind of man who loved her already and would love her forever.”

Nicholas Sparks book Safe Haven

“Only a rank degenerate would drive 1,500 miles across Texas without eating a chicken fried steak.”

Larry McMurtry (1936) American novelist, essayist, bookseller and screenwriter

“Man loves what is small; and he loves what is big, through the same weakness.”

Joseph Joubert (1754–1824) French moralist and essayist

“He was the kind of man everyone would fall in love with, even if they didn't want to.”

Nicholas Sparks (1965) American writer and novelist

“And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.”

Joanne K. Rowling (1965) British novelist, author of the Harry Potter series

“You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.”

Mary Oliver (1935–2019) American writer

“People say they "find" love, as if it were an object hidden by a rock. But love takes many forms and it is never the same for any man and woman. What people find then is a CERTAIN love.”

Mitch Albom book The Five People You Meet in Heaven

“What I want is for both of us to feel safe. What you and I have together shouldn't be draining us like this. It should be the one rock-solid thing we both count on.”

Sylvia Day (1973) American writer