...ruined everything / In the nicest way

"You should know / How great things were before you / Even so / They're better still today / I can't think of who I was before / You ruined everything / In the nicest way" -Jonathan Coulton; You Ruined Everything

...You don't have to be broken for me.

"Don't get me wrong. I want to hear everything about your life. But I want you to know that you don't need to tell me this to get me to love you. You don't have to be broken for me." -Sugar; Dear Sugar, The Rumpus Advice Column

Withholding distorts reality...

"Withholding distorts reality. It makes the people who do the withholding ugly and small-hearted. It makes the people from whom things are withheld crazy and desperate and incapable of knowing what they actually feel. / So release yourself from that. Don’t be strategic or coy. Strategic and coy are for jackasses. Be brave. Be authentic. Practice saying the word love to the people you love so when it matters the most to say it, you will." -Sugar; Dear Sugar

...power to stand on its own.

"The last word that my mother ever said to me was love. She was so sick and weak and out of her head she couldn't muster the 'I' or the 'you,' but it didn't matter. That puny word has the power to stand on its own." -Sugar; Dear Sugar

...who you cannot live without.

"Love isn't about who you live with... it's about who you cannot live without." -Unknown

...a silent parallel world...

"There are people with the same hidden opinions and fantasies and together their thoughts are a silent parallel world where secrets are few." -Winston Rowntree; Virus Comix

...Love, child! What else?...

" 'What will I find, my lord priest?' ... 'Love, child! What else? You will find it and lose it, again and again. And with each finding and each loss, you will become more than before. What you make of it is yours to choose.' " -Jacqueline Carey; Kushiel's Scion

...you were red with me.

"... as one would press [a handkerchief] / against a wound from which life, all in one spurt, / is trying to escape--I held you close / till you were red with me." -Rilke

...conversation / / without us.

"i want our / lips to have / a conversation / / without us." -Taylor Marie Meredith; they have a lot to say

...Thank you for existing so intensely.

"Once, when you thought no one was looking, I saw you open your heart so wide the earth fell in. Once, when you thought no one was listening, I heard you sigh so deep the oceans roared with support. Once, when you thought you were all alone, I felt every atom in this universe rush forward to embrace you. Again. Thank you for existing so intensely." -Sera Beak; Divine Winks

...the music that lovers hear.

"I envy the music that lovers hear." -Charles de Lint; Moonlight Vines

...don't want the whole world...

"Well, I don't want the whole world / The sun, the moon, and all their light / I just want to be the only girl / You love all your life" -The Band Perry; All Your Life

...like the language you love.

"Find yourself strong and good like the language you love." -Tom Pathos Bill Johns

Love me when I least deserve it...

"Love me when I least deserve it, because that is when I really need it." -Swedish Proverb

It takes a minute...

"It takes a minute to find a special person, an hour to appreciate them, a day to love them, but then an entire life to forget them." -Unknown

If love was a choice...

"If love was a choice, who would ever choose such exquisite pain?" -AnkaraStark

love didn't follow rules...

"... love didn't follow rules or adhere to time schedules or wait for the world to be free of peril. If you wanted love in your life, you had to take it or leave it. But know that if you left it, it might never come again." -Doris Mortman; Out of Nowhere

Love is like war...

"Love is like war: easy to begin, hard to end." -Proverb

I do not know if God exists...

"I do not know if God exists. / I do not know if I exist. / But I know that love exists." -J. Watson

Love at first sight...

"Love at first sight is rather pointless without love at second sight, and third and fourth..." -Unknown