8 stunning thoughts about love by my favourite authors

1) "Because here’s the absolute miracle that we cannot allow ourselves to ignore: out of the billions of years that earth has existed for, you and I ended up alive at the exact same time.

I wasn’t born on your 90th birthday. You didn’t die an untimely death at age 3.

I didn’t live as a pauper in the year 400 B.C. You will not spring into existence 500 years into the future. Out of all the centuries, eras, time periods and Universes we could have ended up in, we somehow both ended up here.

We ended up in the era with planes and trains and cars and cell phones and Skype calls. We ended up in the age of relentless communication and instantaneous connection. Of all the possible worlds that we could have gotten stuck in, we found ourselves living in a time when it’s possible to wake up to a good morning text every day from someone who is clear across the world." - Heidi Priebe

2) "The right people make you want to throw away the plans you originally had for one and follow them into the hazy, unknown future without a glance backwards. The right people don’t make you hmm and haw about whether or not you want to be with them; you just know. You know that any adventure you had originally planned out for your future isn’t going to be half as incredible as the adventures you could have by their side. That no matter what you thought you wanted before, this is better. Everything is better since they came along." - Heidi Priebe

3) "Everything looks beautiful. The Book of Shhh says that deliria alters your perception, disables your ability to reason clearly, impairs you from making sound judgments. But it does not tell you this: that love will turn the whole world into something greater than itself." - Lauren Oliver

4) "I learned that there is good in this world, if you looks hard enough for it. I learned that not everyone is disappointing, including me, and that a 1257-foot bump in the ground can feel higher than a bell tower if you're standing next to the right person" - Jennifer Niven

5) "We sit in silence and watch the stars, I suppose because there are no words, not in all the languages on earth, that can properly describe the feeling of being in love. And perhaps those little burning lights out there in the dark, are the closest we come to something that does" - Beau Taplin

6) "Falling for a person isn't a process. You can't plan for it in advance, or anticipate its arrival. Love strikes in single moments. Anywhere. Anytime. Some day you catch them gardening in the sun, or singing dreadfully in the shower, and you think, oh, I could spend all my life with you" - Beau Taplin

7) "As they were falling asleep, Gillian could have sworn she heard Ben say 'fate'- as if they were meant to be together from the start; and every single thing they'd ever done in their lives had been leading to this moment. If you thought that way, you could fall asleep without regret. You could put your whole life in place, with all the sadness and the sorrow, and still feel that at last you had everything you ever wanted. In spite of the lousy odds and all the wrong turns, you might actually discover that you were the one who'd won" - Alice Hoffman

8) "I can't quite explain it but it feels like I've heard your voice a thousand time before and your name rings true to my soul. We have lived many lives and now we get one more" -Nikki Rowe