„It's true that I have loved,
And gladly would again;
But sad heart, and famished belly
Not even partly satisfied
Force me away from paths of love.
And so, let someone else take over
Who has tucked away more food –
Dancing is for men of nobler girth.“

„true love is felonious… You take someone’s breath away… You rob them of the ability to utter a single word… You steal a heart.“

—  Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

„Kids chase the love that eludes them, and for me, that was my father's love. He kept it tucked away, like papers in a briefcase. And I kept trying to get in there.“

—  Mitch Albom, For One More Day

Source: For One More Day

„Everyone has choices to make; no one has the right to take those choices away from us. Not even out of love..“

—  Cassandra Clare, book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

„Once, when I was young and true.
Someone left me sad -
Broke my brittle heart in two;
And that is very bad.

Love is for unlucky folk,
Love is but a curse.
Once there was a heart I broke;
And that, I think, is worse.“

—  Dorothy Parker American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist 1893 - 1967

Variant: A Very Short Song

Once, when I was young and true,
Someone left me sad-
Broke my brittle heart in two;
And that is very bad.

Love is for unlucky folk,
Love is but a curse.
Once there was a heart I broke;
And that, I think, is worse.
Source: Enough Rope

„I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.“

—  Nancy Mitford British writer 1904 - 1973

„That's always where the love goes, with somebody else away from me.“

—  Daniel Handler, book Adverbs

Adverbs (2006), Symbolically

„How I'd love to get away from here and be someone else for a while in a place where no one knows or expects certain things from me.“

—  Libba Bray, A Great and Terrible Beauty

Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty

„I find myself wondering why—out of all the people in all the world I could ever have loved—I had to fall in love with someone who was taken away from me.“

—  Nicholas Sparks, book Message in a Bottle

Source: Message in a Bottle

„When you love someone, you don't have a choice. Love takes your choices away.“

—  Cassandra Clare American author 1973

Source: City of Ashes; Clary Fray

„Love goes away when your mind goes away and then you're someone else.“

—  Kathy Acker, book Blood and Guts in High School

Source: Blood and Guts in High School (1978)

„I also love a quiet place
That's green, away from all mankind;
A lonely pool, and let a tree
Sigh with her bosom over me.“

—  William Henry Davies British poet 1871 - 1940

The Kingfisher

„You know love may sometimes make you cry,
so let the tears go,
they will flow away,
for you know love will always let you fly
— how far a heart can fly away!“

—  Enya Irish singer, songwriter, and musician 1961

Song lyrics, Amarantine (2005)

„Oh Carol, don't let him steal your heart away
I'm gonna learn to dance if it takes me all night and day“

—  Chuck Berry American rock-and-roll musician 1926 - 2017

"Carol" (1958)
Song lyrics

„Where were you then?
Who else was there?
Saying what?
Why will the whole of love come on me suddenly
when I am sad and feel you are far away?“

—  Pablo Neruda Chilean poet 1904 - 1973

„Love is something if you give it away,
Give it away, give it away.
Love is something if you give it away,
You end up having more.
It's just like a magic penny,
Hold it tight and you won't have any.
Lend it, spend it, and you'll have so many
They'll roll all over the floor.“

—  Malvina Reynolds American folk singer 1900 - 1978

Song Magic Penny

„There are moments when i wish i could roll back the clock and take all the sadness away, but i have a feeling that if i did, the joy would be gone as well. So i take the memories as they come, accepting them all, letting them guide me whenever i can.“

—  Nicholas Sparks, book Dear John

Source: Dear John

„Love for the joy of loving, and not for the offerings of someone else's heart.“

—  Marlene Dietrich German-American actress and singer 1901 - 1992

„I can no more give Jamie away than I can give away my heart. But what I can do is let another share in the joy that she has always given me.“

—  Nicholas Sparks American writer and novelist 1965

Hegbert Sullivan, Chapter 13, p. 239
1990s, A Walk to Remember (1999)

„A heart can no more be forced to love than a stomach can be forced to digest food by persuasion.“

—  Alfred Nobel Swedish chemist, innovator, and armaments manufacturer 1833 - 1896