“Explain to me what loving feels like, Beth. I want to understand.”

Source: The Madness of Lord Ian Mackenzie

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American author 1974

Jennifer Ashley (1974) American author

Source: The Madness of Lord Ian Mackenzie

“Love is the moment when two people look at what is invisible, something that is often unspoken and cannot be explained in words. Yet they can both understand and feel it.”

Titon Rahmawan

“…He is driven by bitterness and anger. You can understand that.’
Nico wanted to yell, Like you know what I feel?”

Rick Riordan book The Blood of Olympus

Source: The Blood of Olympus

“I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.”

Franz Kafka book The Metamorphosis

Source: The Metamorphosis (1915)

“If somebody likes me, I want them to like the real me, not what they think I am. And I don't want them to carry it around inside. I want them to show me, so I can feel it, too. I want them to be able to do whatever they want around me.”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Variant: I don't want to be somebody's crush. if somebody likes me, i want them to like the real me, not what they think i am. And i don't want them to carry it around inside. I want them to show me, so i can feel it too. - Sam
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“I'd be a sucker for a guy who wrote me a song,” I said. “Like Beth or Rosanna or Sara. Or Sharona. Is that too much to ask? To be somebody's Sharona?”

Tiffanie DeBartolo (1970) American writer

Source: How to Kill a Rock Star

“I said, I like my life. If I
have to give it back, if they
take it from me, let me only
not feel I wasted any, let me
not feel I forgot to love anyone
I meant to love, that I forgot
to give what I held in my hands,
that I forgot to do some little
piece of the work that wanted
to come through.”

Marge Piercy (1936) American novelist and poet

"If they come in the night", in The Twelve-Spoked Wheel Flashing (1978); reprinted in Sleeping with Cats: A Memoir (2002).