Intensity Quote by Amanda Hocking

It was a terrifying feeling. And if it was love, he wanted none of it.

— Sarah MacLean

Pain? He could handle that, no problem; it was the idea that the female he loved was suffering that made him want to either…

— Anonymous

Vulnerability, like he had the power to hurt her or pleasure her in a way no other man could. For the first time, he…

— Maya Banks

The anticipation and dread he felt at seeing her was also a kind of sensual pleasure, and surrounding it, like an embrace, was a…

— Ian Mcewan

He wanted pain, I saw that in him, and what a man wants he will often manage to find.

— Alice Hoffman

It was a strange thing, this feeling of empathy. He'd never experienced it before. He realized that what hurt this woman hurt him as…

— Elizabeth Hoyt

Is that what relationships become? A reduced version of the hurt, nothing else let in. It was more than that. I know it was…

— John Green

I watched him, filled with tenderness and ache, wondering what it was that connected us. Was it the wounded places down inside people that…

— Sue Monk Kidd

He felt his heart, which no longer beat, contract, and he wondered if there was anything in the world as painful as not being…

— Cassandra Clare

Knowing he was suffering pained me. That’s the way love tangles you up. I couldn’t stop loving him, and couldn’t shut off the feelings…

— Paula McLain

Suddenly it was too hard to be in his presence, too painful to know that he would belong to someone else.

— Julia Quinn

His heart hurt with the wanting of it, the hurt no less painful for being difficult to explain.

— Maggie Stiefvater