Counting Quote by Sarah Waters

...so young, so lonely and naive, that she imagined herself as some sort of vessel to be filled up with love. But it wasn't…

— Kim Edwards

“When she had been married a little while, she concluded that love was half a longing of a kind that possession did nothing to…

— Marilynne Robinson

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

“But she had recently come to think that in such unhappy times--when the odds were so high against personal happiness--to find love was miraculous,…

— Bernard Malamud

“My hopes for a relationship with her were wholly unreal, whereas my ongoing misery, and frustration, were an all-too-horrible reality. Was groundless, hopeless romantic…

— Donna Tartt

“She knew she oughtn't to scold but she couldn't bear such a hyperbole. People couldn't live without food and air or shelter and money.…

— Margot Livesey

Love meant something to her, she dreamt of it, thought of it, wrote of it. It was the one thing in life that had…

— Danielle Steel

“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 was forced to consider the startling fact that the love of her life might not actually be someone with whom she could spend…

— Jodi Picoult

She'd thought love had something to do with happiness, but it turned out they were not even vaguely related. Love was closer to a…

— Joe Hill

“Love was something that sat comfortably in her dreams, so she never fully expected it to materialize.”

— Abby Slovin

“At first she was so inexpressive and indifferent that I wanted to know more about her. I envied that blankness - it was the…

— Bret Easton Ellis