obsessed with this question because i have a whole pinterest board just for jmj quotes haha but i’ll share a few
“Dear, much-missed Hitoshi – I tried to burn the line of his dear shoulders, his dear arms, all of him, into my brain. The faint colors of his form, even the heat of the tears running down my cheeks: I desperately struggled to memorize it all.” by Banana Yoshimoto - Kitchen (very jm-coded)

“The enormity of my desire disgusts me.” by Richard Siken - War of the Foxes

“I’m restless and harsh and hopeless. Though I have love inside myself. It’s just that I don’t know how to use love. Sometimes it scratches like barbs.” by Clarice Lispector - Agua Viva (for me it’s so mj… i love when she bares her love like a weapon)

and of course,
“I will love you as we find ourselves farther and farther from one another, where once we were so close... I will love you until your face is fogged by distant memory. I will love you no matter where you go and who you see, I will love you if you don't marry me. I will love you if you marry someone else--and i will love you if you never marry at all, and spend your years wishing you had married me after all. That is how I will love you even as the world goes on its wicked way.” by Lemony Snicket - The Beatrice Letters which i based the anatomy of a memory on hahaha

and tbh i think the whole pacific rim movie is just very jmj-coded. also the book ‘the seven husbands of husbands of evelyn hugo’ too. and also paper rings by ts, which is decidedly not a poetic masterpiece but i associate that song with jmj so hard because of that edit that haunt my dreams and no longer available online :’)