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They've got no idea what happiness is, they don't know that without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us--there is no life.	Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina	happiness, love
Being in love, I find myself smiling for no reason at all...	Nicholas Sparks, Dear John	love
If you love someone, you must be prepared to set them free.	Paulo Coelho, The Winner Stands Alone	coelho, love
Love cannot be forced, love cannot be coaxed and teased. It comes out of heaven, unasked and unsought.	Pearl S. Buck	love
Love is too precious to be ashamed of.	Laurell K. Hamilton, A Stroke of Midnight	happiness, inspirational, love, prejudice, romance
This I want to believe implicitly: Man was born for love and revolution.	Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun	love, revolution
I realized how truly hard it was, really, to see someone you love change right before your eyes. Not only is it scary, it throws your balance off as well.	Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever	balance, change, hard, love, scary, someone
Every widow wakes one morning, perhaps after years of pure and unwavering grieving, to realize she slept a good night's sleep, and will be able to eat breakfast, and doesn't hear her husband's ghost all the time, but only some of the time. Her grief is replaced with a useful sadness. Every parent who loses a child finds a way to laugh again. The timbre begins to fade. The edge dulls. The hurt lessens. Every love is carved from loss. Mine was. Yours is. Your great-great-great-grandchildren's will be. But we learn to live in that love.	Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated	death, grief, life, love
I will not wait to love as best as I can. We thought we were young and that there would be time to love well sometime in the future. This is a terrible way to think. It is no way to live, to wait to love.	Dave Eggers, What Is the What	carpe-diem, love
I am my heart’s undertaker. Daily I go and retrieve its tattered remains, place them delicately into its little coffin, and bury it in the depths of my memory, only to have to do it all again tomorrow.	Emilie Autumn, The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls	heart, love, melancholy
He came up and kissed me on my forehead, and before he stepped away, I closed my eyes and tried hard to memorize this moment. I wanted to remember him exactly as he was right then, how his arms looked brown against his white shirt, the way his hair was cut a little too short in the front. Even the bruise, there because of me.Then he was gone.Just for that moment, the thought that I might never see him again… it felt worse than death. I wanted torun after him. Tell him anything, everything. Just don’t go. Please just never go. Please just always be near me, so I can at least see you.Because it felt final. I always believed that we would find our way back to each other every time. That no matter what, we would be connected—by our history, by this house. But this time, this last time, it felt final. Like I would never see him again, or that when I did, it would be different, there would be a mountain between us.I knew it in my bones. That this time was it. I had finally made my choice, and so had he. He let me go. I was relieved, which I expected. What I didn’t expect was to feel so much grief.	Jenny Han, We'll Always Have Summer	goodbyes, loss, love
The Court of Dreams.The people who knew that there was a price, and one worth paying, for that dream. The bastard- born warriors, the Illyrian half breed, the monster trapped in a beautiful body, the dreamer born into a court of nightmares...And the huntress with an artist's soul.	Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury	dreams, love, shivers, wonderful
If I love you more than you love me, I’m as good as dead. Yet I can’t make myself take it back. I can’t just walk away from you, because every time you pass by me without smiling, without touching my hand, or at least making eye contact, it feels like I’m dying inside.	Rachel Vincent, Shift	heartbreak, jace-hammond, love
He was the toast to her butter.	Nicholas Sparks, The Lucky One	compatibility, love
She smiled, and her eyes started to drift downward. "Cather..." Back up to his eyes."You know that I'm falling in love with you, right?	Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl	college-romance, falling-in-love, fangirl, levi, love, rainbow-rowell, romance, teen
Like some wines our love could neither mature nor travel.	Graham Greene, The Comedians	breakup, love, romance
He was contemplation and enthusiasm. Ambition and strong coffee. I could have looked at him forever.	E. Lockhart, We Were Liars	love, romance
...Who could refrain, That had a heart to love, and in that heart Courage to make love known?	William Shakespeare, Macbeth	courage, friendship, love
The heart can think of no devotionGreater than being shore to the ocean-Holding the curve of one position,Counting an endless repetition.	Robert Frost	devotion, love, poetry
But even when I stop crying, even when we fall asleep and I'm nestled in his arms, this will leave another scar. No one will see it. No one will know. But it will be there. And eventually all of the scars will have scars, and that's all I'll be--one big scar of a love gone wrong.	Amanda Grace, But I Love Him	abuse, hurt, love, teen, ya, young-adult
So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.	Robert Louis Stevenson, Lay Morals	friendship, love, service
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.	Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time	love
Hope for love, pray for love, wish for love, dream for love…but don’t put your life on hold waiting for love.	Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass	being-single, dating, finding-love, living-life-to-the-fullest, living-your-best-life, love, not-settling, positive-thinking, praying-for-love, relationships, single, single-life, single-woman, singleness, the-single-woman
I had no illusions about you,' he said. 'I knew you were silly and frivolous and empty-headed. But I loved you. I knew that your aims and ideals were vulgar and commonplace. But I loved you. I knew that you were second-rate. But I loved you. It's comic when I think how hard I tried to be amused by the things that amused you and how anxious I was to hide from you that I wasn't ignorant and vulgar and scandal-mongering and stupid. I knew how frightened you were of intelligence and I did everything I could to make you think me as big a fool as the rest of the men you knew. I knew that you'd only married me for convenience. I loved you so much, I didn't care. Most people, as far as I can see, when they're in love with someone and the love isn't returned feel that they have a grievance. They grow angry and bitter. I wasn't like that. I never expected you to love me, I didn't see any reason that you should. I never thought myself very lovable. I was thankful to be allowed to love you and I was enraptured when now and then I thought you were pleased with me or when I noticed in your eyes a gleam of good-humored affection. I tried not to bore you with my love; I knew I couldn't afford to do that and I was always on the lookout for the first sign that you were impatient with my affection. What most husbands expect as a right I was prepared to receive as a favor.	W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil	husbands, love, marriage
Do you believe a man can truly love a woman and constantly betray her?Never mind physically but betray her in his mind,in the very "poetry of his soul".Well,it's not easy but men do it all the time.	Mario Puzo, Fools Die	betrayal, hurt, life, love, woman
If you love me as you say you do,' she whispered, 'make it so that I am at peace.	Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina	love, peace
Love is not a habit, a commitment, or a debt. It isn't what romantic songs tell us it is - love simply is.	Paulo Coelho	love
The more boys I meet the more I love my dog.	Carrie Underwood	boys, carrie-underwood, dogs, love
I hug him tightly. “I can’t imagine my life without you, Christian. I love you so much it frightens me.” “Me, too,” he breathes. “My life would be empty without you. I love you so much.	E.L. James, Fifty Shades Darker	emotional, love, romance
We, unaccustomed to courageexiles from delightlive coiled in shells of lonelinessuntil love leaves its high holy templeand comes into our sightto liberate us into life.Love arrivesand in its train come ecstasiesold memories of pleasureancient histories of pain.Yet if we are bold,love strikes away the chains of fearfrom our souls.We are weaned from our timidityIn the flush of love's lightwe dare be braveAnd suddenly we seethat love costs all we areand will ever be.Yet it is only lovewhich sets us free.	Maya Angelou	courage, fear, freedom, life, lonliness, love, pain, poetry
Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but it sure makes the rest of you lonely.	Charles M. Schulz	lonely, love
Hate looks like everybody else until it smiles	Tahereh Mafi	dystopia, hate, inspirational, love, shatter-me, young-adult
She's mad, but she's magic. There's no lie in her fire.	Charles Bukowski	fire, love, magic, women
I think you're still the only person sharp enough to sharpen someone like me.	Veronica Roth, Allegiant	four-and-tris, love, together
and when all the wars are over, a butterfly will still be beautiful.	Ruskin Bond, Scenes from a Writer's Life	beauty, butterfly, childhood, human, human-nature, india, life, love, peace, ruskin-bond, war
I mean, it's not surprising, really. Once you love something, you always love it in some way. You have to. It's, like, part of you for good.	Sarah Dessen, What Happened to Goodbye	love
Tears are words the heart can't express	Gerard Way	definitions, life, love
The unqualified truth is, that when I loved Estella with the love of a man, I loved her simply because I found her irresistible. Once for all; I knew to my sorrow, often and often, if not always, that I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be. Once for all; I love her none the less because I knew it, and it had no more influence in restraining me, than if I had devoutly believed her to be human perfection.	Charles Dickens, Great Expectations	estella, irresistibility, love, perfection, pip
Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified. To know love we have to invest time and commitment...'dreaming that love will save us, solve all our problems or provide a steady state of bliss or security only keeps us stuck in wishful fantasy, undermining the real power of the love -- which is to transform us.' Many people want love to function like a drug, giving them an immediate and sustained high. They want to do nothing, just passively receive the good feeling.	bell hooks	drug, emotion, feeling, genuine, insightful, love
I was glad I wasn't in love, that I wasn't happy with the world. I like being at odds with everything. People in love often become edgy, dangerous. They lose their sense of perspective. They lose their sense of humor. They become nervous, psychotic bores. They even become killers.	Charles Bukowski, Women	love
Shazi, I prefer the color blue to any other. The scent of lilacs in your hair is a source of constant torment. I despise figs. Lastly, I will never forget, all the days of my life, the memories of last night—For nothing, not the sun, not the rain, not even the brightest star in the darkest sky, could begin to compare to the wonder of you.Khalid.	Renee Ahdieh, The Wrath and the Dawn	khalid, love, shahrzad
I think you can only be truly mad at someone you really love.	E.L. James, Fifty Shades Freed	love, madly-in-love, true-love
Wanting him to come back before anyone notices part of the world has not moved since he left.	Brian Andreas	life, longing, love, relationships, story-people
I wanted to tell her everything, maybe if I'd been able to, we could have lived differently, maybe I'd be there with you now instead of here. Maybe... if I'd said, 'I'm so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything,' maybe that would have made the impossible possible. Maybe, but I couldn't do it, I had buried too much too deeply inside me. And here I am, instead of there.	Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close	love, regret
Love is illogical, love had consequences--I did this to myself, and I should be able to take it.	Marie Lu, Prodigy	logic, love
Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.	Friedrich Nietzsche	desire, love
Your naked body should only belong to those who fall in love with your naked soul.	Charlie Chaplin	chaplin, charlie-chaplin, love, naked, soul, vip
I would love to saythat youmake meweak in the kneesbutto be quite upfrontand completelytruthfulyoumake my bodyforgetit has kneesat all.	Tyler Knott Gregson, Love Language	love, poetry
Plant seeds of happiness, hope, success, and love; it will all come back to you in abundance. This is the law of nature.	Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience	abundance, action, choice, happiness, hope, inspirational, love, motivational, nature, success
She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me, and I am in no humor at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men.	Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice	elizabeth-bennett, love, mr-darcy
Love must not entreat,' she added, 'or demand. Love must have the strength to become certain within itself. Then it ceases merely to be attracted and begins to attract.	Hermann Hesse, Demian. Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend	attraction, love, strength
Falling in love you remain a child; rising in love you mature. By and by love becomes not a relationship, it becomes a state of your being. Not that you are in love - now you are love.	Osho	love
I wish I had a boyfriend. I wish he lived in the wardrobe on a coat hanger. Whenever I wanted, I could get him out and he'd look at me the way boys do in films, as if I'm beautiful.	Jenny Downham, Before I Die	love
I don't remember who said this, but there really are places in the heart you don't even know exist until you love a child.	Anne Lamott, Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year	children, love, parenting
Last night I was seriously considering whether I was a bisexual or not but I don’t think so though I’m not sure if I’d like to be and argh I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that, if you like a person, you like the person, not their genitals.	Jess C. Scott, Tongue-Tied	bisexuality, body, desire, funny, gender, gender-bending, gender-equality, honesty, individuality, lgbt, love, philosophy, relationships, sexuality
Can I say something?''Go on''I'm a little drunk''Me too. That's okay.''Just....I missed you, you know.''I missed you too.''But so, so much, Dexter. There were so many things I wanted to talk to you about, and you weren't there-''same here.''I tell you what it is. It's.....When I didn't see you, I thought about you every day, I mean EVERY DAY in some way or another-''same here.''-Even if it was just "I wish Dexter could see this" or "Where's Dexter now?" or "Christ that Dexter, what an idiot", you know what I mean, and seeing you today, well, I thought I'd got you back - my BEST friend. And now all this, the wedding, the baby- I'm so happy for you, Dex, but it feels like I've lost you again.'--'You know what happens you have a family, your responsibilities change, you lose touch with people''It won't be like that, I promise.''Do you?''Absolutely''You swear? No more disappearing?''I won't if you won't.'Their lips touched now, mouths pursed tight, their eyes open, both of them stock still. The moment held, a kind of glorious confusion.	David Nicholls, One Day	friendship, love, moving-on
Every life has one true love snapshot.	Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven	love
Sweets to the sweet.	William Shakespeare, Hamlet	death, love, shakespeare
I half closed my eyes and imagined this was the spot where everything I'd ever lost since my childhood had washed up, and I was now standing here in front of it, and if I waited long enough, a tiny figure would appear on the horizon across the field and gradually get larger until I'd see it was Tommy, and he'd wave, and maybe even call.	Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go	lost, love, norfolk
When you're missing a peice of yourself, aching, gut wrenching emptiness begins to take over. Until you find the link that completes your very soul, the feeling will never go away. Most people find a way to fill this void, material possessions, a string of relationships, affairs, food...I bare my soul, with words, for all to see.	Jennifer Salaiz	heartbreak, love, soulmate, writing
Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night.	Matthew Arnold, Dover Beach and Other Poems	life, love, pain, poetry, struggle
What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life--to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting?	George Eliot, Adam Bede	couples, death, fellowship, love, marriage, memory, relationship, sadness, sorrow
If you simply ignored the feeling, you would never know what might happen, and in many ways that was worse than finding out in the first place. Because if you were wrong, you could go forward in your life without ever looking back over your shoulder and wondering what might have been.	Nicholas Sparks, Message in a Bottle	bhie, feeling, love, message-in-a-bottle, nicholas-sparks, regret, wondering
But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires:To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night.To know the pain of too much tenderness.To be wounded by your own understanding of love;And to bleed willingly and joyfully.To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving;To rest at noon hour and meditate love's ecstasy;To return home at eventide with gratitude;And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise on your lips.	Kahlil Gibran	desire, joy, love
My head’ll explode if I continue with this escapism.	Jess C. Scott, EyeLeash: A Blog Novel	body, books, cool, culture, desire, emotion, friendship, funny, girl, honesty, humor, humour, imagination, individuality, life, love, music, novel, passion, reality, relationships, romance, self, sex, technology, truth, wisdom, young, youth
Oh lovers! be careful in those dangerous first days! once you've brought breakfast in bed you'll have to bring it forever, unless you want to be accused of lovelessness and betrayal.	Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting	love
Two words. Three vowels. Four constenants. Seven letters. It can either cut you open to the core and leave you in ungodly pain or it can free your soul and lift a tremendous weight off you shoulders. The phrase is: It's over.	Maggi Richard	breaking-up, heartbreak, letters, love, words
There are many different types of kisses. There’s a passionate kiss of farewell—like the kind Rhett gave Scarlett when he went off to war. The kiss of I-can’t-really-be-with-you-but-I-want-to-be—like with Superman and Lois Lane. There’s the first kiss—one that is gentle and hesitant, warm and vulnerable. And then there’s the kiss of possession—which was how Ren kissed me now. It went beyond passion, beyond desire. His kiss was full of longing, need, and love, like all those other kisses. But, it was also filled with promises and pledges, some of which seemed sweet and tender while others seemed dangerous and exciting. He was taking me over. Staking a claim. He seized me as boldly as the tiger captured his prey. There was no escape. And I didn’t want to. I would have happily died in his clutches. I was his. And he made sure I knew it. My heart burst with a thousand beautiful blooms, all tiger lilies. And I knew with a certainty more powerful than anything I’d ever felt before that we belonged together.	Colleen Houck, Tiger's Quest	love, romance
Everyone always wants to know how you can tell when it's true love, and the answer is this: when the pain doesn't fade and the scars don't heal, and it's too damned late.	Jonathan Tropper, The Book of Joe	hurt, love, pain, scars, true, true-love
If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was.	Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha	geisha, love, memoirs, woman
You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.	Victor Hugo, Les Misérables	love
There was beauty in the idea of freedom, but it was an illusion. Every human heart was chained by love.	Cassandra Clare, Lady Midnight	freedom, lady-midnight, life, love, mark-blackthorn
As long as Man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings, he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love.	Pythagoras	compassion, love, peace, vegan, vegetarian
I won't telephone him. I'll never telephone him again as long as I live. He'll rot in hell, before I'll call him up. You don't have to give me strength, God; I have it myself. If he wanted me, he could get me. He knows where I am. He knows I'm waiting here. He's so sure of me, so sure. I wonder why they hate you, as soon as they are sure of you.	Dorothy Parker, The Portable Dorothy Parker	calling, love, men, relationships
Sometimes two people have to fall apart, to realize how much they need to fall back together.	Colleen Hoover	literature, love
People always say that, when you love someone, nothing in the world matters. But that's not true, is it? You know, and I know, that when you love someone, everything in the world matters a little bit more.	Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care	love
Freely we serveBecause we freely love, as in our willTo love or not; in this we stand or fall.	John Milton	freedom, love
Jane, my little darling (so I will call you, for so you are), you don't know what you are talking about; you misjudge me again: it is not because she is mad I hate her. If you were mad, do you think I should hate you?""I do indeed, sir.""Then you are mistaken, and you know nothing about me, and nothing about the sort of love of which I am capable. Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear. Your mind is my treasure, and if it were broken, it would be my treasure still: if you raved, my arms should confine you, and not a strait waistcoat--your grasp, even in fury, would have a charm for me: if you flew at me as wildly as that woman did this morning, I should receive you in an embrace, at least as fond as it would be restrictive. I should not shrink from you with disgust as I did from her: in your quiet moments you should have no watcher and no nurse but me; and I could hang over you with untiring tenderness, though you gave me no smile in return; and never weary of gazing into your eyes, though they had no longer a ray of recognition for me.	Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre	love, pain, relationship, sickness
When you find somebody you love, all the way through, and she loves you—even with your weaknesses, your flaws, everything starts to click into place. And if you can talk to her, and she listens, if she makes you laugh, and makes you think, makes you want, makes you see who you really are, and who you are is better, just better with her, you’d be crazy not to want to spend the rest of your life with her. (Carter Maguire)	Nora Roberts, Happy Ever After	love, marriage
One of the most frustrating words in the human language, as far as I could tell, was love.So much meaning attached to this one little word. People bandied it about freely, using it todescribe their attachments to possessions, pets, vacation destinations, and favorite foods. In thesame breath they then applied this word to the person they considered most important in theirlives. Wasn’t that insulting? Shouldn’t there be some other term to describe deeper emotion?	Alexandra Adornetto, Halo	emotion, halo, human-language, liane, love, word
You can't own a human being. You can't lose what you don't own. Suppose you did own him. Could you really love somebody who was absolutely nobody without you? You really want somebody like that? Somebody who falls apart when you walk out the door? You don't, do you? And neither does he. You're turning over your whole life to him. Your whole life, girl. And if it means so little to you that you can just give it away, hand it to him, then why should it mean any more to him? He can't value you more than you value yourself.	Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon	love, self-worth, women
I just...I just miss him. And I hate being so alone.	Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games	katniss, love, missing-you, peeta, relationships, the-hunger-games
We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.	Sam Keen, To Love and Be Loved	learn, love, perfect, person
I got my heart's desire, and there my troubles began.	Lev Grossman, The Magicians	desire, love, relationships, trouble
I was dead, then alive.Weeping, then laughing.The power of love came into me,and I became fierce like a lion,then tender like the evening star.	Jalaluddin Rumi	love, rumi
Relationships are all about trust and equality. If one person shares, then the other person should share, too.	Sophie Kinsella, Can You Keep a Secret?	friendship, love, romance
Life is a gift. Don't forget to live it.	Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything	inspirational, life, love, young-adult
The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	community, connection, friendship, goethe, inspirational, love
Albert Camus wrote that the only serious question is whether to kill yourself or not.Tom Robbins wrote that the only serious question is whether time has a beginning and an end.Camus clearly got up on the wrong side of bed, and Robbins must have forgotten to set the alarm.There is only one serious question. And that is: Who knows how to make love stay?Answer me that and I will tell you whether or not to kill yourself.	Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker	love, questions
That night when you kissed me, I left a poem in your mouth, and you can hear some of the lines every time you breathe out.	Andrea Gibson	love, poetry, relationships, romance
Cassia.I know which life is my real one now, no matter what happens. It’s the one with you. For some reason, knowing that even one person knows my story makes things different. Maybe it’s like the poem says. Maybe this is my way of not going gentle.I love you. (Ky Markham)	Ally Condie, Matched	fight, love, reason, story, strength
Love who you love while you have them. That's all you can do. Let them go when you must. If you know how to love, you'll never run out.	Ann Brashares, My Name Is Memory	love
In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours.In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.	Maya Angelou	love, perfect-fit
Were you always such a stubborn, blind, obtuse girl?”“Are you calling me stupid?”“Yes, but in a more poetic way!”“Well, here’s a poem for you. Get lost!	Colleen Houck	humor, love, romance
Know that love is truly timeless.	Mary M. Ricksen	love, romance, time-travel, trust
I want someone who is fierce and will love me until death and knows that love is as strong as death, and be on my side forever and ever. I want someone who will destroy and be destroyed by me.	Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit	love
The acceptance of oneself is the essence of the whole moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook on life. That I feed the hungry, that I forgive an insult, that I love my enemy in the name of Christ -- all these are undoubtedly great virtues. What I do unto the least of my brethren, that I do unto Christ. But what if I should discover that the least among them all, the poorest of all the beggars, the most impudent of all the offenders, the very enemy himself -- that these are within me, and that I myself stand in need of the alms of my own kindness -- that I myself am the enemy who must be loved -- what then? As a rule, the Christian's attitude is then reversed; there is no longer any question of love or long-suffering; we say to the brother within us "Raca," and condemn and rage against ourselves. We hide it from the world; we refuse to admit ever having met this least among the lowly in ourselves.	C.G. Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections	christianity, denial, forgiveness, love, morality, self-image
The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness...	Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace	love, world
Even when I'm dead, I'll swim through the Earth,like a mermaid of the soil, just to be next to your bones.	Jeffrey McDaniel	devotion, fidelity, love, obsession
I thought we were a real love relationship. I did. I was very invested in love, but it was just this long long sex thing that could end at any moment because after all, it's just about getting off. Almost all the time, you tell yourself you're loving somebody when you're just using them. This only looks like love.	Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters	love

They've got no idea what happiness is, they don't know that without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us--there is no life.

Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

happiness, love

Being in love, I find myself smiling for no reason at all...

Nicholas Sparks, Dear John

love

If you love someone, you must be prepared to set them free.

Paulo Coelho, The Winner Stands Alone

coelho, love

Love cannot be forced, love cannot be coaxed and teased. It comes out of heaven, unasked and unsought.

Pearl S. Buck

love

Love is too precious to be ashamed of.

Laurell K. Hamilton, A Stroke of Midnight

happiness, inspirational, love, prejudice, romance

This I want to believe implicitly: Man was born for love and revolution.

Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun

love, revolution

I realized how truly hard it was, really, to see someone you love change right before your eyes. Not only is it scary, it throws your balance off as well.

Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever

balance, change, hard, love, scary, someone

Every widow wakes one morning, perhaps after years of pure and unwavering grieving, to realize she slept a good night's sleep, and will be able to eat breakfast, and doesn't hear her husband's ghost all the time, but only some of the time. Her grief is replaced with a useful sadness. Every parent who loses a child finds a way to laugh again. The timbre begins to fade. The edge dulls. The hurt lessens. Every love is carved from loss. Mine was. Yours is. Your great-great-great-grandchildren's will be. But we learn to live in that love.

Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated

death, grief, life, love

I will not wait to love as best as I can. We thought we were young and that there would be time to love well sometime in the future. This is a terrible way to think. It is no way to live, to wait to love.

Dave Eggers, What Is the What

carpe-diem, love

I am my heart’s undertaker. Daily I go and retrieve its tattered remains, place them delicately into its little coffin, and bury it in the depths of my memory, only to have to do it all again tomorrow.

Emilie Autumn, The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls

heart, love, melancholy

He came up and kissed me on my forehead, and before he stepped away, I closed my eyes and tried hard to memorize this moment. I wanted to remember him exactly as he was right then, how his arms looked brown against his white shirt, the way his hair was cut a little too short in the front. Even the bruise, there because of me.Then he was gone.Just for that moment, the thought that I might never see him again… it felt worse than death. I wanted torun after him. Tell him anything, everything. Just don’t go. Please just never go. Please just always be near me, so I can at least see you.Because it felt final. I always believed that we would find our way back to each other every time. That no matter what, we would be connected—by our history, by this house. But this time, this last time, it felt final. Like I would never see him again, or that when I did, it would be different, there would be a mountain between us.I knew it in my bones. That this time was it. I had finally made my choice, and so had he. He let me go. I was relieved, which I expected. What I didn’t expect was to feel so much grief.

Jenny Han, We'll Always Have Summer

goodbyes, loss, love

The Court of Dreams.The people who knew that there was a price, and one worth paying, for that dream. The bastard- born warriors, the Illyrian half breed, the monster trapped in a beautiful body, the dreamer born into a court of nightmares...And the huntress with an artist's soul.

Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

dreams, love, shivers, wonderful

If I love you more than you love me, I’m as good as dead. Yet I can’t make myself take it back. I can’t just walk away from you, because every time you pass by me without smiling, without touching my hand, or at least making eye contact, it feels like I’m dying inside.

Rachel Vincent, Shift

heartbreak, jace-hammond, love

He was the toast to her butter.

Nicholas Sparks, The Lucky One

compatibility, love

She smiled, and her eyes started to drift downward. "Cather..." Back up to his eyes."You know that I'm falling in love with you, right?

Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

college-romance, falling-in-love, fangirl, levi, love, rainbow-rowell, romance, teen

Like some wines our love could neither mature nor travel.

Graham Greene, The Comedians

breakup, love, romance

He was contemplation and enthusiasm. Ambition and strong coffee. I could have looked at him forever.

E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

love, romance

...Who could refrain, That had a heart to love, and in that heart Courage to make love known?

William Shakespeare, Macbeth

courage, friendship, love

The heart can think of no devotionGreater than being shore to the ocean-Holding the curve of one position,Counting an endless repetition.

Robert Frost

devotion, love, poetry

But even when I stop crying, even when we fall asleep and I'm nestled in his arms, this will leave another scar. No one will see it. No one will know. But it will be there. And eventually all of the scars will have scars, and that's all I'll be--one big scar of a love gone wrong.

Amanda Grace, But I Love Him

abuse, hurt, love, teen, ya, young-adult

So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Robert Louis Stevenson, Lay Morals

friendship, love, service

Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.

Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time

love

Hope for love, pray for love, wish for love, dream for love…but don’t put your life on hold waiting for love.

Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass

being-single, dating, finding-love, living-life-to-the-fullest, living-your-best-life, love, not-settling, positive-thinking, praying-for-love, relationships, single, single-life, single-woman, singleness, the-single-woman

I had no illusions about you,' he said. 'I knew you were silly and frivolous and empty-headed. But I loved you. I knew that your aims and ideals were vulgar and commonplace. But I loved you. I knew that you were second-rate. But I loved you. It's comic when I think how hard I tried to be amused by the things that amused you and how anxious I was to hide from you that I wasn't ignorant and vulgar and scandal-mongering and stupid. I knew how frightened you were of intelligence and I did everything I could to make you think me as big a fool as the rest of the men you knew. I knew that you'd only married me for convenience. I loved you so much, I didn't care. Most people, as far as I can see, when they're in love with someone and the love isn't returned feel that they have a grievance. They grow angry and bitter. I wasn't like that. I never expected you to love me, I didn't see any reason that you should. I never thought myself very lovable. I was thankful to be allowed to love you and I was enraptured when now and then I thought you were pleased with me or when I noticed in your eyes a gleam of good-humored affection. I tried not to bore you with my love; I knew I couldn't afford to do that and I was always on the lookout for the first sign that you were impatient with my affection. What most husbands expect as a right I was prepared to receive as a favor.

W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil

husbands, love, marriage

Do you believe a man can truly love a woman and constantly betray her?Never mind physically but betray her in his mind,in the very "poetry of his soul".Well,it's not easy but men do it all the time.

Mario Puzo, Fools Die

betrayal, hurt, life, love, woman

If you love me as you say you do,' she whispered, 'make it so that I am at peace.

Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

love, peace

Love is not a habit, a commitment, or a debt. It isn't what romantic songs tell us it is - love simply is.

Paulo Coelho

love

The more boys I meet the more I love my dog.

Carrie Underwood

boys, carrie-underwood, dogs, love

I hug him tightly. “I can’t imagine my life without you, Christian. I love you so much it frightens me.” “Me, too,” he breathes. “My life would be empty without you. I love you so much.

E.L. James, Fifty Shades Darker

emotional, love, romance

We, unaccustomed to courageexiles from delightlive coiled in shells of lonelinessuntil love leaves its high holy templeand comes into our sightto liberate us into life.Love arrivesand in its train come ecstasiesold memories of pleasureancient histories of pain.Yet if we are bold,love strikes away the chains of fearfrom our souls.We are weaned from our timidityIn the flush of love's lightwe dare be braveAnd suddenly we seethat love costs all we areand will ever be.Yet it is only lovewhich sets us free.

Maya Angelou

courage, fear, freedom, life, lonliness, love, pain, poetry

Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but it sure makes the rest of you lonely.

Charles M. Schulz

lonely, love

Hate looks like everybody else until it smiles

Tahereh Mafi

dystopia, hate, inspirational, love, shatter-me, young-adult

She's mad, but she's magic. There's no lie in her fire.

Charles Bukowski

fire, love, magic, women

I think you're still the only person sharp enough to sharpen someone like me.

Veronica Roth, Allegiant

four-and-tris, love, together

and when all the wars are over, a butterfly will still be beautiful.

Ruskin Bond, Scenes from a Writer's Life

beauty, butterfly, childhood, human, human-nature, india, life, love, peace, ruskin-bond, war

I mean, it's not surprising, really. Once you love something, you always love it in some way. You have to. It's, like, part of you for good.

Sarah Dessen, What Happened to Goodbye

love

Tears are words the heart can't express

Gerard Way

definitions, life, love

The unqualified truth is, that when I loved Estella with the love of a man, I loved her simply because I found her irresistible. Once for all; I knew to my sorrow, often and often, if not always, that I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be. Once for all; I love her none the less because I knew it, and it had no more influence in restraining me, than if I had devoutly believed her to be human perfection.

Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

estella, irresistibility, love, perfection, pip

Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified. To know love we have to invest time and commitment...'dreaming that love will save us, solve all our problems or provide a steady state of bliss or security only keeps us stuck in wishful fantasy, undermining the real power of the love -- which is to transform us.' Many people want love to function like a drug, giving them an immediate and sustained high. They want to do nothing, just passively receive the good feeling.

bell hooks

drug, emotion, feeling, genuine, insightful, love

I was glad I wasn't in love, that I wasn't happy with the world. I like being at odds with everything. People in love often become edgy, dangerous. They lose their sense of perspective. They lose their sense of humor. They become nervous, psychotic bores. They even become killers.

Charles Bukowski, Women

love

Shazi, I prefer the color blue to any other. The scent of lilacs in your hair is a source of constant torment. I despise figs. Lastly, I will never forget, all the days of my life, the memories of last night—For nothing, not the sun, not the rain, not even the brightest star in the darkest sky, could begin to compare to the wonder of you.Khalid.

Renee Ahdieh, The Wrath and the Dawn

khalid, love, shahrzad

I think you can only be truly mad at someone you really love.

E.L. James, Fifty Shades Freed

love, madly-in-love, true-love

Wanting him to come back before anyone notices part of the world has not moved since he left.

Brian Andreas

life, longing, love, relationships, story-people

I wanted to tell her everything, maybe if I'd been able to, we could have lived differently, maybe I'd be there with you now instead of here. Maybe... if I'd said, 'I'm so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything,' maybe that would have made the impossible possible. Maybe, but I couldn't do it, I had buried too much too deeply inside me. And here I am, instead of there.

Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

love, regret

Love is illogical, love had consequences--I did this to myself, and I should be able to take it.

Marie Lu, Prodigy

logic, love

Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.

Friedrich Nietzsche

desire, love

Your naked body should only belong to those who fall in love with your naked soul.

Charlie Chaplin

chaplin, charlie-chaplin, love, naked, soul, vip

I would love to saythat youmake meweak in the kneesbutto be quite upfrontand completelytruthfulyoumake my bodyforgetit has kneesat all.

Tyler Knott Gregson, Love Language

love, poetry

Plant seeds of happiness, hope, success, and love; it will all come back to you in abundance. This is the law of nature.

Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

abundance, action, choice, happiness, hope, inspirational, love, motivational, nature, success

She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me, and I am in no humor at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men.

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

elizabeth-bennett, love, mr-darcy

Love must not entreat,' she added, 'or demand. Love must have the strength to become certain within itself. Then it ceases merely to be attracted and begins to attract.

Hermann Hesse, Demian. Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

attraction, love, strength

Falling in love you remain a child; rising in love you mature. By and by love becomes not a relationship, it becomes a state of your being. Not that you are in love - now you are love.

Osho

love

I wish I had a boyfriend. I wish he lived in the wardrobe on a coat hanger. Whenever I wanted, I could get him out and he'd look at me the way boys do in films, as if I'm beautiful.

Jenny Downham, Before I Die

love

I don't remember who said this, but there really are places in the heart you don't even know exist until you love a child.

Anne Lamott, Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year

children, love, parenting

Last night I was seriously considering whether I was a bisexual or not but I don’t think so though I’m not sure if I’d like to be and argh I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that, if you like a person, you like the person, not their genitals.

Jess C. Scott, Tongue-Tied

bisexuality, body, desire, funny, gender, gender-bending, gender-equality, honesty, individuality, lgbt, love, philosophy, relationships, sexuality

Can I say something?''Go on''I'm a little drunk''Me too. That's okay.''Just....I missed you, you know.''I missed you too.''But so, so much, Dexter. There were so many things I wanted to talk to you about, and you weren't there-''same here.''I tell you what it is. It's.....When I didn't see you, I thought about you every day, I mean EVERY DAY in some way or another-''same here.''-Even if it was just "I wish Dexter could see this" or "Where's Dexter now?" or "Christ that Dexter, what an idiot", you know what I mean, and seeing you today, well, I thought I'd got you back - my BEST friend. And now all this, the wedding, the baby- I'm so happy for you, Dex, but it feels like I've lost you again.'--'You know what happens you have a family, your responsibilities change, you lose touch with people''It won't be like that, I promise.''Do you?''Absolutely''You swear? No more disappearing?''I won't if you won't.'Their lips touched now, mouths pursed tight, their eyes open, both of them stock still. The moment held, a kind of glorious confusion.

David Nicholls, One Day

friendship, love, moving-on

Every life has one true love snapshot.

Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven

love

Sweets to the sweet.

William Shakespeare, Hamlet

death, love, shakespeare

I half closed my eyes and imagined this was the spot where everything I'd ever lost since my childhood had washed up, and I was now standing here in front of it, and if I waited long enough, a tiny figure would appear on the horizon across the field and gradually get larger until I'd see it was Tommy, and he'd wave, and maybe even call.

Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

lost, love, norfolk

When you're missing a peice of yourself, aching, gut wrenching emptiness begins to take over. Until you find the link that completes your very soul, the feeling will never go away. Most people find a way to fill this void, material possessions, a string of relationships, affairs, food...I bare my soul, with words, for all to see.

Jennifer Salaiz

heartbreak, love, soulmate, writing

Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night.

Matthew Arnold, Dover Beach and Other Poems

life, love, pain, poetry, struggle

What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life--to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting?

George Eliot, Adam Bede

couples, death, fellowship, love, marriage, memory, relationship, sadness, sorrow

If you simply ignored the feeling, you would never know what might happen, and in many ways that was worse than finding out in the first place. Because if you were wrong, you could go forward in your life without ever looking back over your shoulder and wondering what might have been.

Nicholas Sparks, Message in a Bottle

bhie, feeling, love, message-in-a-bottle, nicholas-sparks, regret, wondering

But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires:To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night.To know the pain of too much tenderness.To be wounded by your own understanding of love;And to bleed willingly and joyfully.To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving;To rest at noon hour and meditate love's ecstasy;To return home at eventide with gratitude;And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise on your lips.

Kahlil Gibran

desire, joy, love

My head’ll explode if I continue with this escapism.

Jess C. Scott, EyeLeash: A Blog Novel

body, books, cool, culture, desire, emotion, friendship, funny, girl, honesty, humor, humour, imagination, individuality, life, love, music, novel, passion, reality, relationships, romance, self, sex, technology, truth, wisdom, young, youth

Oh lovers! be careful in those dangerous first days! once you've brought breakfast in bed you'll have to bring it forever, unless you want to be accused of lovelessness and betrayal.

Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

love

Two words. Three vowels. Four constenants. Seven letters. It can either cut you open to the core and leave you in ungodly pain or it can free your soul and lift a tremendous weight off you shoulders. The phrase is: It's over.

Maggi Richard

breaking-up, heartbreak, letters, love, words

There are many different types of kisses. There’s a passionate kiss of farewell—like the kind Rhett gave Scarlett when he went off to war. The kiss of I-can’t-really-be-with-you-but-I-want-to-be—like with Superman and Lois Lane. There’s the first kiss—one that is gentle and hesitant, warm and vulnerable. And then there’s the kiss of possession—which was how Ren kissed me now. It went beyond passion, beyond desire. His kiss was full of longing, need, and love, like all those other kisses. But, it was also filled with promises and pledges, some of which seemed sweet and tender while others seemed dangerous and exciting. He was taking me over. Staking a claim. He seized me as boldly as the tiger captured his prey. There was no escape. And I didn’t want to. I would have happily died in his clutches. I was his. And he made sure I knew it. My heart burst with a thousand beautiful blooms, all tiger lilies. And I knew with a certainty more powerful than anything I’d ever felt before that we belonged together.

Colleen Houck, Tiger's Quest

love, romance

Everyone always wants to know how you can tell when it's true love, and the answer is this: when the pain doesn't fade and the scars don't heal, and it's too damned late.

Jonathan Tropper, The Book of Joe

hurt, love, pain, scars, true, true-love

If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was.

Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

geisha, love, memoirs, woman

You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.

Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

love

There was beauty in the idea of freedom, but it was an illusion. Every human heart was chained by love.

Cassandra Clare, Lady Midnight

freedom, lady-midnight, life, love, mark-blackthorn

As long as Man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings, he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love.

Pythagoras

compassion, love, peace, vegan, vegetarian

I won't telephone him. I'll never telephone him again as long as I live. He'll rot in hell, before I'll call him up. You don't have to give me strength, God; I have it myself. If he wanted me, he could get me. He knows where I am. He knows I'm waiting here. He's so sure of me, so sure. I wonder why they hate you, as soon as they are sure of you.

Dorothy Parker, The Portable Dorothy Parker

calling, love, men, relationships

Sometimes two people have to fall apart, to realize how much they need to fall back together.

Colleen Hoover

literature, love

People always say that, when you love someone, nothing in the world matters. But that's not true, is it? You know, and I know, that when you love someone, everything in the world matters a little bit more.

Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care

love

Freely we serveBecause we freely love, as in our willTo love or not; in this we stand or fall.

John Milton

freedom, love

Jane, my little darling (so I will call you, for so you are), you don't know what you are talking about; you misjudge me again: it is not because she is mad I hate her. If you were mad, do you think I should hate you?""I do indeed, sir.""Then you are mistaken, and you know nothing about me, and nothing about the sort of love of which I am capable. Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear. Your mind is my treasure, and if it were broken, it would be my treasure still: if you raved, my arms should confine you, and not a strait waistcoat--your grasp, even in fury, would have a charm for me: if you flew at me as wildly as that woman did this morning, I should receive you in an embrace, at least as fond as it would be restrictive. I should not shrink from you with disgust as I did from her: in your quiet moments you should have no watcher and no nurse but me; and I could hang over you with untiring tenderness, though you gave me no smile in return; and never weary of gazing into your eyes, though they had no longer a ray of recognition for me.

Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

love, pain, relationship, sickness

When you find somebody you love, all the way through, and she loves you—even with your weaknesses, your flaws, everything starts to click into place. And if you can talk to her, and she listens, if she makes you laugh, and makes you think, makes you want, makes you see who you really are, and who you are is better, just better with her, you’d be crazy not to want to spend the rest of your life with her. (Carter Maguire)

Nora Roberts, Happy Ever After

love, marriage

One of the most frustrating words in the human language, as far as I could tell, was love.So much meaning attached to this one little word. People bandied it about freely, using it todescribe their attachments to possessions, pets, vacation destinations, and favorite foods. In thesame breath they then applied this word to the person they considered most important in theirlives. Wasn’t that insulting? Shouldn’t there be some other term to describe deeper emotion?

Alexandra Adornetto, Halo

emotion, halo, human-language, liane, love, word

You can't own a human being. You can't lose what you don't own. Suppose you did own him. Could you really love somebody who was absolutely nobody without you? You really want somebody like that? Somebody who falls apart when you walk out the door? You don't, do you? And neither does he. You're turning over your whole life to him. Your whole life, girl. And if it means so little to you that you can just give it away, hand it to him, then why should it mean any more to him? He can't value you more than you value yourself.

Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

love, self-worth, women

I just...I just miss him. And I hate being so alone.

Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

katniss, love, missing-you, peeta, relationships, the-hunger-games

We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.

Sam Keen, To Love and Be Loved

learn, love, perfect, person

I got my heart's desire, and there my troubles began.

Lev Grossman, The Magicians

desire, love, relationships, trouble

I was dead, then alive.Weeping, then laughing.The power of love came into me,and I became fierce like a lion,then tender like the evening star.

Jalaluddin Rumi

love, rumi

Relationships are all about trust and equality. If one person shares, then the other person should share, too.

Sophie Kinsella, Can You Keep a Secret?

friendship, love, romance

Life is a gift. Don't forget to live it.

Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything

inspirational, life, love, young-adult

The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

community, connection, friendship, goethe, inspirational, love

Albert Camus wrote that the only serious question is whether to kill yourself or not.Tom Robbins wrote that the only serious question is whether time has a beginning and an end.Camus clearly got up on the wrong side of bed, and Robbins must have forgotten to set the alarm.There is only one serious question. And that is: Who knows how to make love stay?Answer me that and I will tell you whether or not to kill yourself.

Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker

love, questions

That night when you kissed me, I left a poem in your mouth, and you can hear some of the lines every time you breathe out.

Andrea Gibson

love, poetry, relationships, romance

Cassia.I know which life is my real one now, no matter what happens. It’s the one with you. For some reason, knowing that even one person knows my story makes things different. Maybe it’s like the poem says. Maybe this is my way of not going gentle.I love you. (Ky Markham)

Ally Condie, Matched

fight, love, reason, story, strength

Love who you love while you have them. That's all you can do. Let them go when you must. If you know how to love, you'll never run out.

Ann Brashares, My Name Is Memory

love

In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours.In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.

Maya Angelou

love, perfect-fit

Were you always such a stubborn, blind, obtuse girl?”“Are you calling me stupid?”“Yes, but in a more poetic way!”“Well, here’s a poem for you. Get lost!

Colleen Houck

humor, love, romance

Know that love is truly timeless.

Mary M. Ricksen

love, romance, time-travel, trust

I want someone who is fierce and will love me until death and knows that love is as strong as death, and be on my side forever and ever. I want someone who will destroy and be destroyed by me.

Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

love

The acceptance of oneself is the essence of the whole moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook on life. That I feed the hungry, that I forgive an insult, that I love my enemy in the name of Christ -- all these are undoubtedly great virtues. What I do unto the least of my brethren, that I do unto Christ. But what if I should discover that the least among them all, the poorest of all the beggars, the most impudent of all the offenders, the very enemy himself -- that these are within me, and that I myself stand in need of the alms of my own kindness -- that I myself am the enemy who must be loved -- what then? As a rule, the Christian's attitude is then reversed; there is no longer any question of love or long-suffering; we say to the brother within us "Raca," and condemn and rage against ourselves. We hide it from the world; we refuse to admit ever having met this least among the lowly in ourselves.

C.G. Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections

christianity, denial, forgiveness, love, morality, self-image

The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness...

Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

love, world

Even when I'm dead, I'll swim through the Earth,like a mermaid of the soil, just to be next to your bones.

Jeffrey McDaniel

devotion, fidelity, love, obsession

I thought we were a real love relationship. I did. I was very invested in love, but it was just this long long sex thing that could end at any moment because after all, it's just about getting off. Almost all the time, you tell yourself you're loving somebody when you're just using them. This only looks like love.

Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

love