Filled Quote by Kim Edwards

“She imagined herself as some sort of vessel to be filled up with love. But it wasn't like that. The love was within her…

— Kim Edwards

She didn't know how to love, to give herself to someone, to out herself in someone else's keeping and take him into hers. She…

— Christine Feehan

She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love. Only she tried twice and failed twice to…

— William Faulkner

It occurred to her suddenly, sharply, that she wanted to be in love... She wanted not to feel so damned alone in the world.

— Kristin Hannah

Not that she didn't love almost every boy she'd ever met, and not that every boy in the world didn't totally love her. It…

— Cecily von Ziegesar

The knowledge that she could learn to love a man had always meant more to her than loving him effortlessly, more even than falling…

— Orhan Pamuk

She was desperate and she was choosey at the same time and, in a way, beautiful, but she didn't have quite enough going for…

— Charles Bukowski

“He was the only person who saw her for herself; as a lonely girl who just wanted to love and live normally.”

— Isabella Modra

“It puzzled her, the ability of romantic love to mutate, how quickly a loved one could become a stranger. Where did the love go?…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“She was perhaps too young to realize that what she assumed was her love for [him] was actually a tentative, timorous, acceptance of herself.”

— Arundhati Roy

...she had come long ago to understand that loneliness was the curse of those who were free, even of all those who rose a…

— Louis Bromfield

“So she had to satisfy herself with the idea of love – loving the loving of things whose existence she didn’t care at all…

— Jonathan Safran Foer