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If one wanted to depict the whole thing graphically, every episode, with its climax, would require a three-dimensional, or, rather, no model: every experience is unrepeatable. What makes lovemaking and reading resemble each other most is that within both of them times and spaces open, different from measurable time and space.	Italo Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler	love, reading, sex
But the you who you are tonight is the same you I was in love with yesterday, the same you I’ll be in love with tomorrow.	Gayle Forman, If I Stay	in-love, love, time
Don’t take the high ground and assume you already know what you’ll do. The truth is, when it comes to someone you love, you’ll find there isn’t anything you won’t do.	Richelle Mead, The Fiery Heart	abe-mazur, love, wisdom
If equal affection cannot be,Let the more loving one be me.	W.H. Auden	affection, equality, love, relationships
Five minutes are enough to dream a whole life, that is how relative time is.	Mario Benedetti	dreams, love, poetry, time
Love is a wonderful gift. It's a present so precious words can barely begin to describe it. Love is a feeling, the deepest and sweetest of all. It's incredibly strong and amazingly gentle at the very same time. It is a blessing that should be counted every day. It is nourishment for the soul. It is devotion, constantly letting each person know how supportive it's certainty can be. Love is a heart filled with affection for the most important person in your life. Love is looking at the special someone who makes your world go around and absolutely loving what you see. Love gives meaning to one's world and magic to a million hopes and dreams. It makes the morning shine more brightly and each season seem like it's the nicest one anyone ever had. Love is an invaluable bond that enriches every good thing in life. It gives each hug a tenderness, each heart a happiness, each spirit a steady lift. Love is an invisible connection that is exquisitely felt by those who know the joy, feel the warmth, share the sweetness, and celebrate the gift!	Douglas Pagels	love
This time I wouldn't forget him, because I couldn't ever forgive him - for breaking my heart twice.	James Patterson, Sundays at Tiffany's	broken-heart, forgetting, love
Thought I couldn't live without youIt's gonna hurt when it heals tooEven though I really love youI'm gonna smile cause I deserve toQuickly I'm learning to love againAll I know is I'mma be ok	Leona Lewis	breakup, couples, heartbreak, love, relationships, sad
I'm not really sure why. But... do you stop loving someone just because they betray you? I don't think so. That's what makes the betrayal hurt so much - pain, frustration, anger... and I still loved her. I still do.	Brandon Sanderson, The Final Empire	anger, betrayal, frustration, hurt, love, pain
Well my music was different in high school; I was singing about love—you know, things I don't care about anymore.	Lady Gaga	high-school, lady-gaga, love, music, school
If you have the woman you love, what more do you need? Well, besides an alibi for the time of her husband’s murder.	Dark Jar Tin Zoo, Love Quotes for the Ages. Specifically Ages 19-91.	alibi, crazy, desire, funny, humor, husband, insane, justification, justify, love, murder, necessity, need, relationships, time, want, wife, woman, women, word-junkies, yearn
When you love someone, they become a part of who you are. They're in everything you do. They're in the air you breathe and the water you drink and the blood in your veins. Their touch stays on your skin and their voice stays in your ears and their thoughts stay in your mind. You know their dreams because their nightmares pierce your heart and their good dreams are your dreams too. And you don't think they're perfect, but you know their flaws, the deep-down truth of them, and the shadows of all their secrets, and they don't frighten you away; in fact you love them more for it, because you don't want perfect. You want them. You want—"He broke off then, as if realizing everyone was looking at him again."You want what?" said Dru with enormous eyes."Nothing," Julian said. "I'm just talking.	Cassandra Clare, Lady Midnight	drusilla-blackthorn, julian-blackthorn, love
Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.	Bruce Lee	fierce, forever-love, love, undying-love
You know that when I hate you, it is because I love you to a point of passion that unhinges my soul.	Julie de Lespinasse	heartache, love, passion, relationships, romance
The only way love can last a lifetime is if it's unconditional. The truth is this: love is not determined by the one being loved but rather by the one choosing to love.	Stephen Kendrick, The Love Dare	agape, love, marriage, unconditional-love
The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.	Gabriel García Márquez	love, marriage
When you find a guy who calls you beautiful instead of hot, who calls you back when you hang up on him, who will stand in front of you when other’s cast stones, or will stay awake just to watch you sleep, who wants to show you off to the world when you are in sweats, who will hold your hand when your sick, who thinks your pretty without makeup, the one who turns to his friends and say, ‘that’s her’, the one that would bear your rejection because losing you means losing his will to live, who kisses you when you screw up, watches the stars and names one for you and will hold and rock that baby for hours so you can sleep…..you marry him all over again.	Shannon L. Alder	best-friend, boyfriend, gentlemen, godly-man, gratitude, happiness, honor, in-love, kindness, love, marriage, men, quality, relationships, respect, romance, spouse, true-love
My girlfriend is sad and quiet and keeps me up all night worrying about her.	Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park	love, relationships
Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour with you.	E. Lockhart, We Were Liars	books, love
Sam came around the side of the car and stopped dead when he saw me. “Oh my God, what is THAT?” I used my thumb and middle finger to flick the multicolored pom-pom on top of my head. “In my language, we call it a HAT. It keeps my ears warm.” “Oh my God,” Sam said again, and closed the distance between us. He cupped my face in his hands and studied me. “It’s horribly cute.” He kissed me, looked at the hat, and then he kissed me again. I vowed never to lose the pom-pom hat.	Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver	cute, funny, love, shiver-maggie-stiefvater-space
To be loved but not known is comforting but superficial. To be known and not loved is our greatest fear. But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God. It is what we need more than anything. It liberates us from pretense, humbles us out of our self-righteousness, and fortifies us for any difficulty life can throw at us.	Timothy J. Keller, The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God	bond, commitment, love, marriage
Love God and He will enable you to love others even when they disappoint you.	Francine Rivers, And The Shofar Blew	god, love
It was brave," countered Issa. "It was rare. It was love, and it was beautiful.	Laini Taylor, Days of Blood & Starlight	issa, love
You're like a grey sky. You're beautiful, even though you don't want to be.	Jasmine Warga, My Heart and Other Black Holes	depression, love
There will never be no love at all.	Bob Marley	double-negatives, love
Memory is a funny thing. When I was in the scene, I hardly paid it any mind. I never stopped to think of it as something that would make a lasting impression, certainly never imagined that eighteen years later I would recall it in such detail. I didn't give a damn about the scenery that day. I was thinking about myself. I was thinking about the beautiful girl walking next to me. I was thinking about the two of us together, and then about myself again. It was the age, that time of life when every sight, every feeling, every thought came back, like a boomerang, to me. And worse, I was in love. Love with complications. The scenery was the last thing on my mind.	Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood	love, memory
I love you and it's getting worse.	Joseph E. Morris	devotion, humor, love
Oh, it's always the same,' she sighed, 'if you want men to behave well to you, you must be beastly to them; if you treat them decently they make you suffer for it.	W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage	love, men
I believe in love the verb, not the noun.	Greg Behrendt, He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys	love, relationships
I'm sorry. I know you loved her. It was hard not to.	John Green, Looking for Alaska	love
Dogs have given us their absolute all. We are the center of their universe. We are the focus of their love and faith and trust. They serve us in return for scraps. It is without a doubt the best deal man has ever made.	Roger A. Caras	dogs, faith, love
I love you, in my mind where my thoughts reside, in my heart where my emotions live, and in my soul where my dreams are born. I love you.	Dee Henderson, The Healer	inspirational, love, romantic
A kiss on the beach when there is a full moon is the closest thing to heaven.	H. Jackson Brown Jr.	kiss, love
Except fang. I glared at him. "Go on, try to stop me, I dare you." It was like the old days when we used to wrestle, each trying to get the better of the other. I was ready to take him down, my hands curled into fist. "I was just going to say be careful," Fang told me. He stepped closer and brushed some hair out of my eyes. "And I've got your back." He motioned with his head toward the torpedo chamber. Oh my God. It hit me like a tsunami then, how perfect he was for me, how no one else would ever, could ever, be so perfect for me, how he was everything I could possibly hope for, as a friend, boyfriend, maybe even more. He was it for me. There would be no more looking. I really, really loved him, with a whole new kind of love I'd never felt before, something that made every other kind of love I'd ever felt feel washed out and wimpy in comparison. I loved him with every cell in my body, every thought in my head, every feather in my wings, every breathe in my lungs. and air sacs. Too bad I was going out to face almost certain death. Right there in front of everyone, I threw my arms around his neck and smashed my mouth against his. He was startled for a second, then his strong arms wrapped around me so tightly I could hardly breathe. "ZOMG," I heard Nudge whisper, but still fang and I kissed slanting our heads this way and that to get closer. I could have stood there and kissed him happily for the next millennium, but Angel, or what was left of her was still out there in the could dark ocean. Reluctantly, I ended the kiss, took a step back. Fang's obsidian eyes were glittering brightly and his stoic face had a look of wonder on it."Gotta go," I said quietly. A half smile quirked his mouth. "Yeah. Hurry back." I nodded and he stepped out of the air lock chamber, keeping his eyes fixed on me, memorizing me as he hit the switch that sealed the chamber. The doors hissed shut with a kind of finality, and I realized that my heart was beating so hard it felt like it was going to start snapping ribs. I was scared. I was crazily, deeply, incredibly, joyously, terrifyingly in love. I was on a death mission. Before my head simply exploded from so much emotion, I hit the large button that pressurized the air lock enough for the doors to open to the ocean outside. I really, really hoped that I would prove somewhat uncrushable, like Angel did. The door cracked open below me and I saw the first dark glint of frigid water.	James Patterson, Maximum Ride Five-Book Set	fang, love, maximu-ride
I...will never...regret you.	Colleen Hoover, Maybe Someday	love
She did not believe he could have really gone, because for her, to leave the person you loved was impossible.	Jodi Lynn Anderson, Tiger Lily	jodi-lynn-anderson, love, peter-pan, tiger-lily
I crossed a thousand leagues to come to you, and lost the best part of me along the way. Don't tell me to leave.	George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords	jaime-lannister, love, romance
There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.	Jane Austen	love
Do you remember all of your audiences?" Marco asks. "Not all of them," Celia says. "But I remember the people who look at me the way you do.""What way might that be?""As though they cannot decide if they are afraid of me or they want to kiss me."" I am not afraid of you," Marco says.	Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus	kiss, love
So many words get lost. They leave the mouth and lose their courage, wandering aimlessly until they are swept into the gutter like dead leaves. On rainy days, you can hear their chorus rushing past: IwasabeautifulgirlPleasedon’tgoItoobelievemybodyismadeofglass-I’veneverlovedanyoneIthinkofmyselfasfunnyForgiveme….There was a time when it wasn’t uncommon to use a piece of string to guide words that otherwise might falter on the way to their destinations. Shy people carried a little bunch of string in their pockets, but people considered loudmouths had no less need for it, since those used to being overheard by everyone were often at a loss for how to make themselves heard by someone. The physical distance between two people using a string was often small; sometimes the smaller the distance, the greater the need for the string. The practice of attaching cups to the ends of string came much later. Some say it is related to the irrepressible urge to press shells to our ears, to hear the still-surviving echo of the world’s first expression. Others say it was started by a man who held the end of a string that was unraveled across the ocean by a girl who left for America.When the world grew bigger, and there wasn’t enough string to keep the things people wanted to say from disappearing into the vastness, the telephone was invented.Sometimes no length of string is long enough to say the thing that needs to be said. In such cases all the string can do, in whatever its form, is conduct a person’s silence.	Nicole Krauss, The History of Love	listening, love, poignant
Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn't matter only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal.	George Orwell, 1984	betrayal, confession, love
Those who really love you don't mean to hurt you and if they do, you can't see it in their eyes but it hurts them too.	Holly Black	hurt, love
Lover? I don't know. I don't know if she loves me. I don't know if I love her. All I can say is, she's the one I think about. All the time. She's the voice I want to hear. She's the face I hope to see.	Sophie Kinsella, I've Got Your Number	love
Let me wake up next to you, have coffee in the morning and wander through the city with your hand in mine, and I'll be happy for the rest of my fucked up little life.	Charlotte Eriksson, Empty Roads & Broken Bottles; in search for The Great Perhaps	coffee, happy, london, love, morning, simple-living, wander
I don't understand the point of being together if you're not the happiest.	Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl	happiness, love, relationship
I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things.	John Green, The Fault in Our Stars	an, augustus, augustus-waters, can-t, have, i, love, true, why
As the light begins to intensify, so does my misery, and I wonder how it is possible to hurt so much when nothing is wrong.	Tabitha Suzuma, Forbidden	bhie, forbidden, hurt, lochan, love, tabitha-suzuma
Love is honesty. Love is a mutual respect for one another.	Simone Elkeles, Leaving Paradise	honesty, love, respect
Someone real," I hear myself saying. "Someone who never has to pretend, and who I never have to pretend around. Someone who's smart, but knows how to laugh at himself. Someone who would listen to a symphony and start to cry, because he understands music can be too big for words. Someone who knows me better than I know myself. Someone I want to talk to first thing in the morning and last thing at night. Someone I feel like I've known my whole life, even if I haven't.	Jodi Picoult, Sing You Home	love, relationships
Isn't it funny.I'm enjoying my hatred so much more than i ever enjoyed love. Love is temperamental. Tiring. It makes demands. Love uses you, changes its mind. But hatred, now, that's something you can use. Sculpt. Wield. It's hard, or soft, however you need it. Love humiliates you, but Hatred cradles you.	Janet Fitch, White Oleander	cradle, enjoy, hate, hatred, humiliate, love, sculpt, soft, tiring, use
I have been loving you a little more every minute since this morning.	Victor Hugo, Les Misérables	love
How could I be sleeping with this particular man.... Surely only true love could justify my lack of taste.	Margaret Atwood, Lady Oracle	humor, love, relationships
Don't marry a rich man. Marry a good man. He will spend his life trying to keep you happy. No rich man can buy that!	Staness Jonekos	inspirational, inspirational-love, love, women
Nelly, I am Heathcliff - he's always, always in my mind - not as a pleasure, any more then I am always a pleasure to myself - but, as my own being.	Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights	heathcliff, love, passion
He offered her the world. She said she had her own.	Monique Duval	freedom, love, monique-duval, relationship
The right thing at the wrong tme is the wrong thing.	Joshua Harris, I Kissed Dating Goodbye	inspirational, love, timing
She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love. Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.	William Faulkner, The Town	accepting-love, love
Sometimes I sit alone under the stars and think of the galaxies inside my heart and truly wonder if anyone will ever want to make sense of all that I am	Christopher Poindexter	lonliness, love, poetry
Love is a rebellious bird that nobody can tame.	Veronica Rossi, Through the Ever Night	ficbookreview-s-fave, love, romance
I don't let nobody see me wishin' he was mine	Taylor Swift	i-d-lie, love, lyrics, songs, taylor-swift, unknown-love
I have learned, that the person I have to ask for forgiveness from the most is: myself. You must love yourself. You have to forgive yourself, everyday, whenever you remember a shortcoming, a flaw, you have to tell yourself "That's just fine". You have to forgive yourself so much, until you don't even see those things anymore. Because that's what love is like.	C. JoyBell C.	acceptance-of-oneself, forgive-yourself, forgiveness, inspirational, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, love
There are only two reasons why you leave someone you're still in love with - either it's the right thing to do, or it's the only thing to do.	Tiffany Reisz, The Siren	love
If a writer falls in love with you, you can never die.	Mik Everett	love, writer, writing
When you know my love, my love will warm you.	Ruby Dee	amity, love
How could he convey to someone who'd never even met her the way she always smelled like rain, or how his stomach knotted up every time he saw her shake loose her hair from its braid? How could he describe how it felt when she finished his sentences, turnec the mug they were sharing so that her mouth landed where his had been? How did he explain the way they could be in a locker room, or underwater, or in the piney woods of Maine, bus as long as Em was with him, he was at home?	Jodi Picoult, The Pact	adoration, devotion, love
For a long time, she held a special place in my heart. I kept this special place just for her, like a "Reserved" sign on a quiet corner table in a restaurant. Despite the fact that I was sure I'd never see her again.	Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun	love, waiting
Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.	Pierre Teilhard de Chardin	faith, love, peace
And he knew, also, what the old man was thinking as his tears flowed, and he, Rieux, thought it too: that a loveless world is a dead world, and always there comes an hour when one is weary of prisons, of one's work, and of devotion to duty, and all one craves for is a loved face, the warmth and wonder of a loving heart.	Albert Camus, The Plague	love
Love is—a shade of what I feel.	Renee Ahdieh, The Wrath and the Dawn	khalid, love
Do you know what hurts so very much? It's love. Love is the strongest force in the world, and when it is blocked that means pain. There are two things we can do when this happens. We can kill that love so that it stops hurting. But then of course part of us dies, too. Or we can ask God to open up another route for that love to travel.	Corrie ten Boom, The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom	christianity, love
If you have it [love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.	J.M. Barrie	love
So then I thought, I'd like you to have something to remember me by, you know, if you ever meet some veela when you're off doing whatever you're doing.'I think dating opportunities are going to be pretty thin on the ground, to be honest.'There's a silver lining I've been looking for,' she whispered, and then she was kissing him as she never kissed him before, and Harry was kissing her back, and it was a blissful oblivion, better than firewhiskey; she was the only real thing in the world, Ginny, the feel of her, one hand on her back, the other in her long sweet-smelling hair...	J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows	kiss, love
People die, I think, but your relationship with them doesn't. It continues and is ever-changing.	Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun	change, death, forever, life, love, relationships
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy to a friend.	Martin Luther King Jr.	love
I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you.	Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated	distance, longing, love
We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present.	Marianne Williamson	love
There used to be days that I thought I was okay, or at least that I was going to be. We'd be hanging out somewhere and everything would just fit right and I would think 'it will be okay if it can just be like this forever' but of course nothing can ever stay just how it is forever.	Nina LaCour, Hold Still	forever, friendship, love, okay, suicide, suicide-note
But what was there to say?Only that there were tears. Only that Quietness and Emptiness fitted together like stacked spoons. Only that there was a snuffling in the hollows at the base of a lovely throat. Only that a hard honey-colored shoulder had a semicircle of teethmarks on it. Only that they held each other close, long after it was over. Only that what they shared that night was not happiness, but hideous grief.Only that once again they broke the Love Laws. That lay down who should be loved. And how. And how much.	Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things	emptiness, forbidden, grief, happiness, inspirational, laws, love, quietness, sadness
Shut up…let me tell you, LET ME. Every time I look at your face or even remember it, it wrecks me. And the way you are with me and you’re just fun and you shit all over me and you make fun of me and you’re real. I don’t have enough time in any day to think about you enough...I don’t even think about women anymore. I think about you.	Louis C.K.	comedian, louis-ck, love, romance, unrequited-love
I went to a tattoo parlor and had YES written onto the palm of my left hand, and NO onto my right palm, what can I say, it hasn't made my life wonderful, its made life possible, when I rub my hands against each other in the middle of winter I am warming myself with the friction of YES and NO, when I clap my hands I am showing my appreciation through the uniting and parting of YES and NO, I signify "book" by peeling open my hands, every book, for me, is the balance of YES and NO, even this one, my last one, especially this one. Does it break my heart, of course, every moment of every day, into more pieces than my heart was made of, I never thought of myself as quiet, much less silent, I never thought about things at all, everything changed, the distance that wedged itself between me and my happiness wasn't the world, it wasn't the bombs and burning buildings, it was me, my thinking, the cancer of never letting go, is ignorance bliss, I don't know, but it's so painful to think, and tell me, what did thinking ever do for me, to what great place did thinking ever bring me? I think and think and think, I've thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.	Jonathan Safran Foer	grief, love, sadness
Love is made up of three unconditional properties in equal measure:1. Acceptance2. Understanding3. AppreciationRemove any one of the three and the triangle falls apart.Which, by the way, is something highly inadvisable. Think about it — do you really want to live in a world of only two dimensions?So, for the love of a triangle, please keep love whole.	Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration	acceptance, affection, appreciation, complex, dimension, dimensions, love, love-triangle, measure, properties, property, qualities, three, three-dimensional, triangle, trinity, two, two-dimensional, unconditional, unconditional-acceptance, unconditional-love, understand, understanding, whole, world
Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.	Matt Groening, The Big Book of Hell	humor, love, metaphor, simpsons
I need the thing that happens when your brain shuts off and your heart turns on.	Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation	love
I couldn't stand here, hanging on, when the very thing I held disappeared more with each passing day.	Becca Fitzpatrick, Crescendo	hurt, love, nora, patch
I needed him like I'd never needed anyone.	Becca Fitzpatrick, Crescendo	love, nora, nora-grey, patch-cipriano
Every day People straighten up the hair, why not the heart?	Ernesto Che Guevara	inspirational, love, motivation, passion
A weed is but an unloved flower.	Ella Wheeler Wilcox	acceptance, flowers, gardening, love, weeds
Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.	Euripides, Medea	hate, incurable, love, retaliation, revenge, wounds
One day you fall for this boy. And he touches you with his fingers. And he burns holes in your skin with his mouth. And it hurts when you look at him. And it hurts when you don’t. And it feels like someone’s cut you open with a jagged piece of glass.	Maureen Medved, The Tracey Fragments	boy, love, lust
I think you can love a person too much.You put someone up on a pedestal, and all of a sudden, from that perspective, you notice what's wrong - a hair out of place, a run in a stocking, a broken bone. You spend all your time and energy making it right, and all the while, you are falling apart yourself. You don't even realize what you look like, how far you've deteriorated, because you only have eyes for someone else.	Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care	love, obsession
I never want to be away from you again, except at work, in the restroom or when one of us is at a movie the other does not want to see.	Lemony Snicket, The Beatrice Letters	love
To love is good, too: love being difficult. For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation...Love is a high inducement to the individual to ripen, to become something in himself, to become world for himself for another's sake, it is a great exacting claim upon him, something that chooses him out and calls him to vast things.	Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet	love, philosophy, poetry
The whole image is that eternal suffering awaits anyone who questions God's infinite love. That's the message we're brought up with, isn't it? Believe or die! Thank you, forgiving Lord, for all those options.	Bill Hicks	atheism, belief, damnation, death, eternal-suffering, forgiving, hell, humor, infinite-love, lord, love, message, options, question, suffering
I had fun last night," I told Patch, flicking off my chin strap and handing over my helmet. "I'm officially in love with your sheets." "That the only thing you're in love with?""Nope. Your mattress, too."Some smile crept into Patch's eyes. "My bed's an open invitation.	Becca Fitzpatrick, Silence	humor, love, patch-and-nora
You're asking me to define an abstract concept that no one has managed to explain since time began. You sort of sprang it on me," Gansey said. "Why do we breathe air? Because we love air? Because we don't want to suffocate. Why do we eat? Because we don't want to starve. How do I know I love her? Because I can sleep after I talk to her. Why?	Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven King	adam-parrish, love, richard-gansey, the-raven-king
Brod's life was a slow realization that the world was not for her, and that for whatever reason, she would never be happy and honest at the same time. She felt as if she were brimming, always producing and hoarding more love inside her. But there was no release...So she had to satisfy herself with the idea of love--loving the loving of things whose existence she didn't care at all about. Love itself became the object of her love. She loved herself in love, she loved loving love, as love loves loving, and was able, in that way, to reconcile herself with a world that fell so short of what she would have hoped for. It was not the world that was the great and saving lie, but her willingness to make it beautiful and fair, to live a once-removed life, in a world once-removed from the one in which everyone else seemed to exist.	Jonathan Safran Foer	love
He drew a circle that shut me out-Heretic , rebel, a thing to flout.But love and I had the wit to win:We drew a circle and took him In !From the poem " Outwitted	Edwin Markham	friend, heretic, love, poem, rebel, wit
To find out if she really loved me, I hooked her up to a lie detector. And just as I suspected, my machine was broken.	Dark Jar Tin Zoo, Love Quotes for the Ages. Specifically Ages 19-91.	broken, deceit, deception, denial, deny, funny, honest, honesty, humor, illogical, illusion, lie, lie-detector, lies, life, love, machine, relationships, suspicion, women, word-junkies
A truth should exist,it should not be usedlike this. If I love youis that a fact or a weapon?	Margaret Atwood	love, poetry, truth
I've always loved strong women, which is lucky for me because once you're over about twenty-five there is no other kind. Women blow my mind. The stuff that routinely gets done to them would make most men curl up and die, but women turn to steel and keep on coming. Any man who claims he's not into strong women is fooling himself mindless; he's into strong women who know how to pout prettily and put on baby voices, and who will end up keeping his balls in her makeup bags.	Tana French, Faithful Place	beauty, cruelty, independence, love, men, strength, survival, women

If one wanted to depict the whole thing graphically, every episode, with its climax, would require a three-dimensional, or, rather, no model: every experience is unrepeatable. What makes lovemaking and reading resemble each other most is that within both of them times and spaces open, different from measurable time and space.

Italo Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

love, reading, sex

But the you who you are tonight is the same you I was in love with yesterday, the same you I’ll be in love with tomorrow.

Gayle Forman, If I Stay

in-love, love, time

Don’t take the high ground and assume you already know what you’ll do. The truth is, when it comes to someone you love, you’ll find there isn’t anything you won’t do.

Richelle Mead, The Fiery Heart

abe-mazur, love, wisdom

If equal affection cannot be,Let the more loving one be me.

W.H. Auden

affection, equality, love, relationships

Five minutes are enough to dream a whole life, that is how relative time is.

Mario Benedetti

dreams, love, poetry, time

Love is a wonderful gift. It's a present so precious words can barely begin to describe it. Love is a feeling, the deepest and sweetest of all. It's incredibly strong and amazingly gentle at the very same time. It is a blessing that should be counted every day. It is nourishment for the soul. It is devotion, constantly letting each person know how supportive it's certainty can be. Love is a heart filled with affection for the most important person in your life. Love is looking at the special someone who makes your world go around and absolutely loving what you see. Love gives meaning to one's world and magic to a million hopes and dreams. It makes the morning shine more brightly and each season seem like it's the nicest one anyone ever had. Love is an invaluable bond that enriches every good thing in life. It gives each hug a tenderness, each heart a happiness, each spirit a steady lift. Love is an invisible connection that is exquisitely felt by those who know the joy, feel the warmth, share the sweetness, and celebrate the gift!

Douglas Pagels

love

This time I wouldn't forget him, because I couldn't ever forgive him - for breaking my heart twice.

James Patterson, Sundays at Tiffany's

broken-heart, forgetting, love

Thought I couldn't live without youIt's gonna hurt when it heals tooEven though I really love youI'm gonna smile cause I deserve toQuickly I'm learning to love againAll I know is I'mma be ok

Leona Lewis

breakup, couples, heartbreak, love, relationships, sad

I'm not really sure why. But... do you stop loving someone just because they betray you? I don't think so. That's what makes the betrayal hurt so much - pain, frustration, anger... and I still loved her. I still do.

Brandon Sanderson, The Final Empire

anger, betrayal, frustration, hurt, love, pain

Well my music was different in high school; I was singing about love—you know, things I don't care about anymore.

Lady Gaga

high-school, lady-gaga, love, music, school

If you have the woman you love, what more do you need? Well, besides an alibi for the time of her husband’s murder. 

Dark Jar Tin Zoo, Love Quotes for the Ages. Specifically Ages 19-91.

alibi, crazy, desire, funny, humor, husband, insane, justification, justify, love, murder, necessity, need, relationships, time, want, wife, woman, women, word-junkies, yearn

When you love someone, they become a part of who you are. They're in everything you do. They're in the air you breathe and the water you drink and the blood in your veins. Their touch stays on your skin and their voice stays in your ears and their thoughts stay in your mind. You know their dreams because their nightmares pierce your heart and their good dreams are your dreams too. And you don't think they're perfect, but you know their flaws, the deep-down truth of them, and the shadows of all their secrets, and they don't frighten you away; in fact you love them more for it, because you don't want perfect. You want them. You want—"He broke off then, as if realizing everyone was looking at him again."You want what?" said Dru with enormous eyes."Nothing," Julian said. "I'm just talking.

Cassandra Clare, Lady Midnight

drusilla-blackthorn, julian-blackthorn, love

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

Bruce Lee

fierce, forever-love, love, undying-love

You know that when I hate you, it is because I love you to a point of passion that unhinges my soul.

Julie de Lespinasse

heartache, love, passion, relationships, romance

The only way love can last a lifetime is if it's unconditional. The truth is this: love is not determined by the one being loved but rather by the one choosing to love.

Stephen Kendrick, The Love Dare

agape, love, marriage, unconditional-love

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Gabriel García Márquez

love, marriage

When you find a guy who calls you beautiful instead of hot, who calls you back when you hang up on him, who will stand in front of you when other’s cast stones, or will stay awake just to watch you sleep, who wants to show you off to the world when you are in sweats, who will hold your hand when your sick, who thinks your pretty without makeup, the one who turns to his friends and say, ‘that’s her’, the one that would bear your rejection because losing you means losing his will to live, who kisses you when you screw up, watches the stars and names one for you and will hold and rock that baby for hours so you can sleep…..you marry him all over again.

Shannon L. Alder

best-friend, boyfriend, gentlemen, godly-man, gratitude, happiness, honor, in-love, kindness, love, marriage, men, quality, relationships, respect, romance, spouse, true-love

My girlfriend is sad and quiet and keeps me up all night worrying about her.

Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

love, relationships

Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour with you.

E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

books, love

Sam came around the side of the car and stopped dead when he saw me. “Oh my God, what is THAT?” I used my thumb and middle finger to flick the multicolored pom-pom on top of my head. “In my language, we call it a HAT. It keeps my ears warm.” “Oh my God,” Sam said again, and closed the distance between us. He cupped my face in his hands and studied me. “It’s horribly cute.” He kissed me, looked at the hat, and then he kissed me again. I vowed never to lose the pom-pom hat.

Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver

cute, funny, love, shiver-maggie-stiefvater-space

To be loved but not known is comforting but superficial. To be known and not loved is our greatest fear. But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God. It is what we need more than anything. It liberates us from pretense, humbles us out of our self-righteousness, and fortifies us for any difficulty life can throw at us.

Timothy J. Keller, The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God

bond, commitment, love, marriage

Love God and He will enable you to love others even when they disappoint you.

Francine Rivers, And The Shofar Blew

god, love

It was brave," countered Issa. "It was rare. It was love, and it was beautiful.

Laini Taylor, Days of Blood & Starlight

issa, love

You're like a grey sky. You're beautiful, even though you don't want to be.

Jasmine Warga, My Heart and Other Black Holes

depression, love

There will never be no love at all.

Bob Marley

double-negatives, love

Memory is a funny thing. When I was in the scene, I hardly paid it any mind. I never stopped to think of it as something that would make a lasting impression, certainly never imagined that eighteen years later I would recall it in such detail. I didn't give a damn about the scenery that day. I was thinking about myself. I was thinking about the beautiful girl walking next to me. I was thinking about the two of us together, and then about myself again. It was the age, that time of life when every sight, every feeling, every thought came back, like a boomerang, to me. And worse, I was in love. Love with complications. The scenery was the last thing on my mind.

Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

love, memory

I love you and it's getting worse.

Joseph E. Morris

devotion, humor, love

Oh, it's always the same,' she sighed, 'if you want men to behave well to you, you must be beastly to them; if you treat them decently they make you suffer for it.

W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

love, men

I believe in love the verb, not the noun.

Greg Behrendt, He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys

love, relationships

I'm sorry. I know you loved her. It was hard not to.

John Green, Looking for Alaska

love

Dogs have given us their absolute all. We are the center of their universe. We are the focus of their love and faith and trust. They serve us in return for scraps. It is without a doubt the best deal man has ever made.

Roger A. Caras

dogs, faith, love

I love you, in my mind where my thoughts reside, in my heart where my emotions live, and in my soul where my dreams are born. I love you.

Dee Henderson, The Healer

inspirational, love, romantic

A kiss on the beach when there is a full moon is the closest thing to heaven.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

kiss, love

Except fang. I glared at him. "Go on, try to stop me, I dare you." It was like the old days when we used to wrestle, each trying to get the better of the other. I was ready to take him down, my hands curled into fist. "I was just going to say be careful," Fang told me. He stepped closer and brushed some hair out of my eyes. "And I've got your back." He motioned with his head toward the torpedo chamber. Oh my God. It hit me like a tsunami then, how perfect he was for me, how no one else would ever, could ever, be so perfect for me, how he was everything I could possibly hope for, as a friend, boyfriend, maybe even more. He was it for me. There would be no more looking. I really, really loved him, with a whole new kind of love I'd never felt before, something that made every other kind of love I'd ever felt feel washed out and wimpy in comparison. I loved him with every cell in my body, every thought in my head, every feather in my wings, every breathe in my lungs. and air sacs. Too bad I was going out to face almost certain death. Right there in front of everyone, I threw my arms around his neck and smashed my mouth against his. He was startled for a second, then his strong arms wrapped around me so tightly I could hardly breathe. "ZOMG," I heard Nudge whisper, but still fang and I kissed slanting our heads this way and that to get closer. I could have stood there and kissed him happily for the next millennium, but Angel, or what was left of her was still out there in the could dark ocean. Reluctantly, I ended the kiss, took a step back. Fang's obsidian eyes were glittering brightly and his stoic face had a look of wonder on it."Gotta go," I said quietly. A half smile quirked his mouth. "Yeah. Hurry back." I nodded and he stepped out of the air lock chamber, keeping his eyes fixed on me, memorizing me as he hit the switch that sealed the chamber. The doors hissed shut with a kind of finality, and I realized that my heart was beating so hard it felt like it was going to start snapping ribs. I was scared. I was crazily, deeply, incredibly, joyously, terrifyingly in love. I was on a death mission. Before my head simply exploded from so much emotion, I hit the large button that pressurized the air lock enough for the doors to open to the ocean outside. I really, really hoped that I would prove somewhat uncrushable, like Angel did. The door cracked open below me and I saw the first dark glint of frigid water.

James Patterson, Maximum Ride Five-Book Set

fang, love, maximu-ride

I...will never...regret you.

Colleen Hoover, Maybe Someday

love

She did not believe he could have really gone, because for her, to leave the person you loved was impossible.

Jodi Lynn Anderson, Tiger Lily

jodi-lynn-anderson, love, peter-pan, tiger-lily

I crossed a thousand leagues to come to you, and lost the best part of me along the way. Don't tell me to leave.

George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

jaime-lannister, love, romance

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

Jane Austen

love

Do you remember all of your audiences?" Marco asks. "Not all of them," Celia says. "But I remember the people who look at me the way you do.""What way might that be?""As though they cannot decide if they are afraid of me or they want to kiss me."" I am not afraid of you," Marco says.

Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

kiss, love

So many words get lost. They leave the mouth and lose their courage, wandering aimlessly until they are swept into the gutter like dead leaves. On rainy days, you can hear their chorus rushing past: IwasabeautifulgirlPleasedon’tgoItoobelievemybodyismadeofglass-I’veneverlovedanyoneIthinkofmyselfasfunnyForgiveme….There was a time when it wasn’t uncommon to use a piece of string to guide words that otherwise might falter on the way to their destinations. Shy people carried a little bunch of string in their pockets, but people considered loudmouths had no less need for it, since those used to being overheard by everyone were often at a loss for how to make themselves heard by someone. The physical distance between two people using a string was often small; sometimes the smaller the distance, the greater the need for the string. The practice of attaching cups to the ends of string came much later. Some say it is related to the irrepressible urge to press shells to our ears, to hear the still-surviving echo of the world’s first expression. Others say it was started by a man who held the end of a string that was unraveled across the ocean by a girl who left for America.When the world grew bigger, and there wasn’t enough string to keep the things people wanted to say from disappearing into the vastness, the telephone was invented.Sometimes no length of string is long enough to say the thing that needs to be said. In such cases all the string can do, in whatever its form, is conduct a person’s silence.

Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

listening, love, poignant

Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn't matter only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal.

George Orwell, 1984

betrayal, confession, love

Those who really love you don't mean to hurt you and if they do, you can't see it in their eyes but it hurts them too.

Holly Black

hurt, love

Lover? I don't know. I don't know if she loves me. I don't know if I love her. All I can say is, she's the one I think about. All the time. She's the voice I want to hear. She's the face I hope to see.

Sophie Kinsella, I've Got Your Number

love

Let me wake up next to you, have coffee in the morning and wander through the city with your hand in mine, and I'll be happy for the rest of my fucked up little life.

Charlotte Eriksson, Empty Roads & Broken Bottles; in search for The Great Perhaps

coffee, happy, london, love, morning, simple-living, wander

I don't understand the point of being together if you're not the happiest.

Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

happiness, love, relationship

I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things.

John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

an, augustus, augustus-waters, can-t, have, i, love, true, why

As the light begins to intensify, so does my misery, and I wonder how it is possible to hurt so much when nothing is wrong.

Tabitha Suzuma, Forbidden

bhie, forbidden, hurt, lochan, love, tabitha-suzuma

Love is honesty. Love is a mutual respect for one another.

Simone Elkeles, Leaving Paradise

honesty, love, respect

Someone real," I hear myself saying. "Someone who never has to pretend, and who I never have to pretend around. Someone who's smart, but knows how to laugh at himself. Someone who would listen to a symphony and start to cry, because he understands music can be too big for words. Someone who knows me better than I know myself. Someone I want to talk to first thing in the morning and last thing at night. Someone I feel like I've known my whole life, even if I haven't.

Jodi Picoult, Sing You Home

love, relationships

Isn't it funny.I'm enjoying my hatred so much more than i ever enjoyed love. Love is temperamental. Tiring. It makes demands. Love uses you, changes its mind. But hatred, now, that's something you can use. Sculpt. Wield. It's hard, or soft, however you need it. Love humiliates you, but Hatred cradles you.

Janet Fitch, White Oleander

cradle, enjoy, hate, hatred, humiliate, love, sculpt, soft, tiring, use

I have been loving you a little more every minute since this morning.

Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

love

How could I be sleeping with this particular man.... Surely only true love could justify my lack of taste.

Margaret Atwood, Lady Oracle

humor, love, relationships

Don't marry a rich man. Marry a good man. He will spend his life trying to keep you happy. No rich man can buy that!

Staness Jonekos

inspirational, inspirational-love, love, women

Nelly, I am Heathcliff - he's always, always in my mind - not as a pleasure, any more then I am always a pleasure to myself - but, as my own being.

Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

heathcliff, love, passion

He offered her the world. She said she had her own.

Monique Duval

freedom, love, monique-duval, relationship

The right thing at the wrong tme is the wrong thing.

Joshua Harris, I Kissed Dating Goodbye

inspirational, love, timing

She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love. Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.

William Faulkner, The Town

accepting-love, love

Sometimes I sit alone under the stars and think of the galaxies inside my heart and truly wonder if anyone will ever want to make sense of all that I am

Christopher Poindexter

lonliness, love, poetry

Love is a rebellious bird that nobody can tame.

Veronica Rossi, Through the Ever Night

ficbookreview-s-fave, love, romance

I don't let nobody see me wishin' he was mine

Taylor Swift

i-d-lie, love, lyrics, songs, taylor-swift, unknown-love

I have learned, that the person I have to ask for forgiveness from the most is: myself. You must love yourself. You have to forgive yourself, everyday, whenever you remember a shortcoming, a flaw, you have to tell yourself "That's just fine". You have to forgive yourself so much, until you don't even see those things anymore. Because that's what love is like.

C. JoyBell C.

acceptance-of-oneself, forgive-yourself, forgiveness, inspirational, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, love

There are only two reasons why you leave someone you're still in love with - either it's the right thing to do, or it's the only thing to do.

Tiffany Reisz, The Siren

love

If a writer falls in love with you, you can never die.

Mik Everett

love, writer, writing

When you know my love, my love will warm you.

Ruby Dee

amity, love

How could he convey to someone who'd never even met her the way she always smelled like rain, or how his stomach knotted up every time he saw her shake loose her hair from its braid? How could he describe how it felt when she finished his sentences, turnec the mug they were sharing so that her mouth landed where his had been? How did he explain the way they could be in a locker room, or underwater, or in the piney woods of Maine, bus as long as Em was with him, he was at home?

Jodi Picoult, The Pact

adoration, devotion, love

For a long time, she held a special place in my heart. I kept this special place just for her, like a "Reserved" sign on a quiet corner table in a restaurant. Despite the fact that I was sure I'd never see her again.

Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun

love, waiting

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

faith, love, peace

And he knew, also, what the old man was thinking as his tears flowed, and he, Rieux, thought it too: that a loveless world is a dead world, and always there comes an hour when one is weary of prisons, of one's work, and of devotion to duty, and all one craves for is a loved face, the warmth and wonder of a loving heart.

Albert Camus, The Plague

love

Love is—a shade of what I feel.

Renee Ahdieh, The Wrath and the Dawn

khalid, love

Do you know what hurts so very much? It's love. Love is the strongest force in the world, and when it is blocked that means pain. There are two things we can do when this happens. We can kill that love so that it stops hurting. But then of course part of us dies, too. Or we can ask God to open up another route for that love to travel.

Corrie ten Boom, The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom

christianity, love

If you have it [love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

J.M. Barrie

love

So then I thought, I'd like you to have something to remember me by, you know, if you ever meet some veela when you're off doing whatever you're doing.'I think dating opportunities are going to be pretty thin on the ground, to be honest.'There's a silver lining I've been looking for,' she whispered, and then she was kissing him as she never kissed him before, and Harry was kissing her back, and it was a blissful oblivion, better than firewhiskey; she was the only real thing in the world, Ginny, the feel of her, one hand on her back, the other in her long sweet-smelling hair...

J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

kiss, love

People die, I think, but your relationship with them doesn't. It continues and is ever-changing.

Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

change, death, forever, life, love, relationships

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy to a friend.

Martin Luther King Jr.

love

I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you.

Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated

distance, longing, love

We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present.

Marianne Williamson

love

There used to be days that I thought I was okay, or at least that I was going to be. We'd be hanging out somewhere and everything would just fit right and I would think 'it will be okay if it can just be like this forever' but of course nothing can ever stay just how it is forever.

Nina LaCour, Hold Still

forever, friendship, love, okay, suicide, suicide-note

But what was there to say?Only that there were tears. Only that Quietness and Emptiness fitted together like stacked spoons. Only that there was a snuffling in the hollows at the base of a lovely throat. Only that a hard honey-colored shoulder had a semicircle of teethmarks on it. Only that they held each other close, long after it was over. Only that what they shared that night was not happiness, but hideous grief.Only that once again they broke the Love Laws. That lay down who should be loved. And how. And how much.

Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

emptiness, forbidden, grief, happiness, inspirational, laws, love, quietness, sadness

Shut up…let me tell you, LET ME. Every time I look at your face or even remember it, it wrecks me. And the way you are with me and you’re just fun and you shit all over me and you make fun of me and you’re real. I don’t have enough time in any day to think about you enough...I don’t even think about women anymore. I think about you.

Louis C.K.

comedian, louis-ck, love, romance, unrequited-love

I went to a tattoo parlor and had YES written onto the palm of my left hand, and NO onto my right palm, what can I say, it hasn't made my life wonderful, its made life possible, when I rub my hands against each other in the middle of winter I am warming myself with the friction of YES and NO, when I clap my hands I am showing my appreciation through the uniting and parting of YES and NO, I signify "book" by peeling open my hands, every book, for me, is the balance of YES and NO, even this one, my last one, especially this one. Does it break my heart, of course, every moment of every day, into more pieces than my heart was made of, I never thought of myself as quiet, much less silent, I never thought about things at all, everything changed, the distance that wedged itself between me and my happiness wasn't the world, it wasn't the bombs and burning buildings, it was me, my thinking, the cancer of never letting go, is ignorance bliss, I don't know, but it's so painful to think, and tell me, what did thinking ever do for me, to what great place did thinking ever bring me? I think and think and think, I've thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.

Jonathan Safran Foer

grief, love, sadness

Love is made up of three unconditional properties in equal measure:1. Acceptance2. Understanding3. AppreciationRemove any one of the three and the triangle falls apart.Which, by the way, is something highly inadvisable. Think about it — do you really want to live in a world of only two dimensions?So, for the love of a triangle, please keep love whole.

Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

acceptance, affection, appreciation, complex, dimension, dimensions, love, love-triangle, measure, properties, property, qualities, three, three-dimensional, triangle, trinity, two, two-dimensional, unconditional, unconditional-acceptance, unconditional-love, understand, understanding, whole, world

Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.

Matt Groening, The Big Book of Hell

humor, love, metaphor, simpsons

I need the thing that happens when your brain shuts off and your heart turns on.

Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation

love

I couldn't stand here, hanging on, when the very thing I held disappeared more with each passing day.

Becca Fitzpatrick, Crescendo

hurt, love, nora, patch

I needed him like I'd never needed anyone.

Becca Fitzpatrick, Crescendo

love, nora, nora-grey, patch-cipriano

Every day People straighten up the hair, why not the heart?

Ernesto Che Guevara

inspirational, love, motivation, passion

A weed is but an unloved flower.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

acceptance, flowers, gardening, love, weeds

Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.

Euripides, Medea

hate, incurable, love, retaliation, revenge, wounds

One day you fall for this boy. And he touches you with his fingers. And he burns holes in your skin with his mouth. And it hurts when you look at him. And it hurts when you don’t. And it feels like someone’s cut you open with a jagged piece of glass.

Maureen Medved, The Tracey Fragments

boy, love, lust

I think you can love a person too much.You put someone up on a pedestal, and all of a sudden, from that perspective, you notice what's wrong - a hair out of place, a run in a stocking, a broken bone. You spend all your time and energy making it right, and all the while, you are falling apart yourself. You don't even realize what you look like, how far you've deteriorated, because you only have eyes for someone else.

Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care

love, obsession

I never want to be away from you again, except at work, in the restroom or when one of us is at a movie the other does not want to see.

Lemony Snicket, The Beatrice Letters

love

To love is good, too: love being difficult. For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation...Love is a high inducement to the individual to ripen, to become something in himself, to become world for himself for another's sake, it is a great exacting claim upon him, something that chooses him out and calls him to vast things.

Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

love, philosophy, poetry

The whole image is that eternal suffering awaits anyone who questions God's infinite love. That's the message we're brought up with, isn't it? Believe or die! Thank you, forgiving Lord, for all those options.

Bill Hicks

atheism, belief, damnation, death, eternal-suffering, forgiving, hell, humor, infinite-love, lord, love, message, options, question, suffering

I had fun last night," I told Patch, flicking off my chin strap and handing over my helmet. "I'm officially in love with your sheets." "That the only thing you're in love with?""Nope. Your mattress, too."Some smile crept into Patch's eyes. "My bed's an open invitation.

Becca Fitzpatrick, Silence

humor, love, patch-and-nora

You're asking me to define an abstract concept that no one has managed to explain since time began. You sort of sprang it on me," Gansey said. "Why do we breathe air? Because we love air? Because we don't want to suffocate. Why do we eat? Because we don't want to starve. How do I know I love her? Because I can sleep after I talk to her. Why?

Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven King

adam-parrish, love, richard-gansey, the-raven-king

Brod's life was a slow realization that the world was not for her, and that for whatever reason, she would never be happy and honest at the same time. She felt as if she were brimming, always producing and hoarding more love inside her. But there was no release...So she had to satisfy herself with the idea of love--loving the loving of things whose existence she didn't care at all about. Love itself became the object of her love. She loved herself in love, she loved loving love, as love loves loving, and was able, in that way, to reconcile herself with a world that fell so short of what she would have hoped for. It was not the world that was the great and saving lie, but her willingness to make it beautiful and fair, to live a once-removed life, in a world once-removed from the one in which everyone else seemed to exist.

Jonathan Safran Foer

love

He drew a circle that shut me out-Heretic , rebel, a thing to flout.But love and I had the wit to win:We drew a circle and took him In !From the poem " Outwitted

Edwin Markham

friend, heretic, love, poem, rebel, wit

To find out if she really loved me, I hooked her up to a lie detector. And just as I suspected, my machine was broken. 

Dark Jar Tin Zoo, Love Quotes for the Ages. Specifically Ages 19-91.

broken, deceit, deception, denial, deny, funny, honest, honesty, humor, illogical, illusion, lie, lie-detector, lies, life, love, machine, relationships, suspicion, women, word-junkies

A truth should exist,it should not be usedlike this. If I love youis that a fact or a weapon?

Margaret Atwood

love, poetry, truth

I've always loved strong women, which is lucky for me because once you're over about twenty-five there is no other kind. Women blow my mind. The stuff that routinely gets done to them would make most men curl up and die, but women turn to steel and keep on coming. Any man who claims he's not into strong women is fooling himself mindless; he's into strong women who know how to pout prettily and put on baby voices, and who will end up keeping his balls in her makeup bags.

Tana French, Faithful Place

beauty, cruelty, independence, love, men, strength, survival, women