“He smiles at me, and I am suddenly seventeen again – the year I realize that love doesn’t follow the rules, the year I understood that nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable.”
– Jodi Picoult, My Sister’s Keeper
“He smiles at me, and I am suddenly seventeen again – the year I realize that love doesn’t follow the rules, the year I understood that nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable.”
– Jodi Picoult, My Sister’s Keeper
“I am glad it cannot happen twice, the fever of first love. For it is a fever, and a burden, too, whatever the poets may say.”
– Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca
“Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.”
– Alexander Smith
“First love is dangerous only when it is also the last.”
– Branislav Nusic
“Love is seeing someone for who they are, and for all the things that they don’t know they can be. Sometimes it’s neither seeing things as good or bad, but seeing them as aspects that create the being. If you cannot love someone for all of the things that create their personality, then you’ll find it hard to love them at all. I can be everything or nothing, but I cannot love without you.”
– Jennifer Megan Varnadore
“Sometimes your friends are your lovers, or have been at one time.”
– Stephanie Seymour