„Werther had a love for CharlotteSuch as words could never utter;Would you know how first he met her?She was cutting bread and butter.“

— William Makepeace Thackeray

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„A man fell in love with Jeanne, and she tried to love him. But she complained that he uttered such ordinary words, that he could never say the magic phrase which would open her being.“
— Anaïs Nin
„They had met at a club fifteen years before, Etta and Magnus. He had convinced her to dance with him, and she said she had been in love by the end of the song. He told her he had been in love before the beginning.“
— Cassandra Clare
„Annabeth pressed her lips to Percy’s ear. “I love you.”She wasn’t sure he could hear her—but if they died, she wanted those to be her last words.“
— Rick Riordan
„Torn between fear and something that resembled love, she wrestled with questions she never dreamed she would face: How could she leave? Then again, how could she stay?“
— Jodi Picoult
„After that, how unbelievable death was! - that is must end; and no one in the whole world would know how she had loved it all.“
— Virginia Woolf
„she was glad she had been scarred. She said that whoever loved her now would love her true self, and not her pretty face.“
— Cassandra Clare
„But maybe you never really had someone, she thought now. Maybe, no matter how much you loved them, they could slip through your fingers like water, and there was nothing you could do about it.“
— Cassandra Clare