Quote by Holly Black

“There is a pleasure in being with them,' he says. 'Taking what we want, indulging in every terrible thought. There's safety in being awful.”

— Holly Black

“Love is a beautiful but terrible thing," he said. "You have to be careful with it. It can destroy you.”

— Courtney Allison Moulton

“You're awful.' He said it as though he was delighted. 'And the worst part is that you believe otherwise.”

— Holly Black

“Being with him felt unbearable, but being with anyone else did too.”

— Cheryl Strayed

“It was safer, he thought, to keep it to himself; because there are many ways of loving.”

— Alexander McCall Smith

“Sometimes we do terrible things to the ones we love just to see what harm we can cause.”

— Frederick Weisel

“This is so unbearably inconvenient," he says. "I was prepared to hate him for the rest of my life.”

— Tahereh Mafi

“Don't let the fear of losing them keep you from loving them.”

— Nicole Williams

“It was awful, this love.”

— Eloisa James

“In spite of their love, they had made each other's life a hell.”

— Milan Kundera

“...the best that can be done is to love for the sake of it, and to keep sorrow company.”

— Francis Spufford

“Was not love a terrible thing? One thought one had learned to manage it, and then it sprang free again, rattling its claws in…

— Meredith Duran