βThe moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever.β
β Carlos Ruiz ZafΓ³n, The Shadow of the Wind
βThe only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving.β
β Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
βHe stared at her, knowing with certainty that he was falling in love. He pulled her close and kissed her beneath a blanket of stars, wondering how on earth he'd been lucky enough to find her.β
β Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song
βLove cannot be reduced to a catalogue of reasons why, and a catalogue of reasons cannot be put together into love.β
β Eleanor Catton, The Luminaries
βI had not intended to love him; the reader knows I had wrought hard to extirpate from my soul the germs of love there detected; and now, at the first renewed view of him, they spontaneously revived, great and strong! He made me love him without looking at me.β
β Charlotte BrontΓ«