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Physical love is unthinkable without violence.	Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being	love, relationships, romance, violence
The first stab of love is like a sunset, a blaze of color -- oranges, pearly pinks, vibrant purples...	Anna Godbersen, The Luxe	beauty, colors, first-love, love, sunset
He is ugly and sad... but he is all love.	Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera	love
Learn to deal with the fact that you are not a perfect person but you are a person that deserves respect and honesty.	Pandora Poikilos, Excuse Me, My Brains Have Stepped Out	brain, love, relationships, self-help, vp-shunt
She didn't need to understand the meaning of life; it was enough to find someone who did, and then fall asleep in his arms and sleep as a child sleeps, knowing that someone stronger than you is protecting you from all evil and all danger	Paulo Coelho, Brida	love, protection, support
Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have , so to speak , pawned a part of their narcissism.	Sigmund Freud	change, life, love, personality
Percy pulled Annabeth close and kissed her...long enough for it to get really awkward for Piper, though she said nothing. She thought about the old rule of Aphrodite's cabin: that to be recognized as a daughter of the love goddess, you had to break someone's heart. Piper had long ago decided to change that rule. Percy and Annabeth were a perfect example of why. You should have to make someone`s heart whole; that was a much better test.	Rick Riordan, The Blood of Olympus	annabeth, aphrodite, awww, love, percabeth, percy-jackson, piper-mclean
If I had a camera,' I said, 'I'd take a picture of you every day. That way I'd remember how you looked every single day of your life.	Nicole Krauss	life, love
Calling it a simple schoolgirl crush was like saying a Rolls-Royce was a vehicle with four wheels, something like a hay-wagon. She did not giggle wildly and blush when she saw him, nor did she chalk his name on trees or write it on the walls of the Kissing Bridge. She simply lived with his face in her heart all the time, a kind of sweet, hurtful ache. She would have died for him..	Stephen King, It	love, mania
The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.	Walter Benjamin	hope, love
I know what it is to live entirely for and with what I love best on earth. I hold myself supremely blest -- blest beyond what language can express because I am my husband's life as fully as he is mine.	Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre	husband, love, marriage, wife
Better than chocolate, being with you last night. Silly me, I thought that nothing was better than chocolate.	E. Lockhart, We Were Liars	love
Living simply makes loving simple.	bell hooks	love, simplicity
You know all that sympathy that you feel for an abused child who suffers without a good mom or dad to love and care for them? Well, they don't stay children forever. No one magically becomes an adult the day they turn eighteen. Some people grow up sooner, many grow up later. Some never really do. But just remember that some people in this world are older versions of those same kids we cry for.	Ashly Lorenzana	abuse, children, depression, kids, love, parents, sadness
Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year.	Chad Sugg	autumn, encourage, fall, inspirational, life, love, nature, trees
Frustration and Love can’t exist in the same place at the same time, so get real and start doing what you would rather be doing in life. Love your life. All of it. Even the heavy shit that happened to you when you were 8. All of it was and IS perfect.	Jason Mraz	healing, inspirational, life, love, past, spiritual, truth
Physics isn't the most important thing. Love is.	Richard Feynman	love, philosophy, physics, priorities
A warrior does not give up what he loves, he finds the love in what he does	Dan Millman, Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives	give-up, love, warrior
I was trying to make you jealous!" Simon screamed, right back. His hands were fisted at his sides. "You're so stupid, Clary. You're so stupid, can't you see anything?"She stared at him in bewilderment. What on earth did he mean? "Trying to make me jealous? Why would you try to do that?"She saw immediately that this was the worst thing she could have asked him."Because," he said, so bitterly that it shocked her, "I've been in love with you for ten years, so I thought it seemed like the time to find out whether you felt the same about me. Which, I guess you don't.	Cassandra Clare, City of Bones	cassandra-clare, city-of-bones, clary-fray, declarations-of-love, love, paranormal, simon-lewis, the-mortal-instruments, unrequited-love
When she opened her eyes, she was both in her body and watching it, nowhere near the cavity of the tree. The Blue that was before her stood inches from a boy in an Aglionby sweater. There was a slight stoop to his posture, and his shoulders were spattered darkly with rain. It was his fingers that Blue felt on her face. He touched her cheek with the backs of his fingers. Tears coursed down the other Blue's face. Though some strange magic, Blue could feel them on her face as well. She could feel, too, sick, rising misery she'd felt in the churchyard, the grief that felt bigger than her. The other Blue's tears seemed endless. One drop slid after another, each following an identical path down her cheeks.The boy in the Aglionby sweater leaned his forehead against Blue's. She felt the pressure of his skin against hers, and suddenly she could smell mint. It'll be okay. Gansey told the other Blue. She could tell that he was afraid. It'll be okay.Impossibly, Blue realized that this other Blue was crying because she loved Gansey. And that the reason Gansey touched her like that, his fingers so careful with her, was because he knew that her kiss could kill him. She could feel how badly the other Blue wanted to kiss him, even as she dreaded it. Though she couldn't understand why, her real, present day memories in the tree cavity were clouded with other false memories of their lips nearly touching, a life this other Blue had already lived.Okay, I'm ready- Gansey's voice caught, just a little. Blue, kiss me.	Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys	kiss, love, sad
Love those you hate you.	Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina	hate, inspirational, love
She fit her head under his chin, and he could feel her weight settle into him. He held her tight and words spilled out of him without prior composition. And this time he made no effort to clamp them off. He told her about the first time he had looked on the back of her neck as she sat in the church pew. Of the feeling that had never let go of him since. He talked to her of the great waste of years between then and now. A long time gone. And it was pointless, he said, to think how those years could have been put to better use, for he could hardly have put them to worse. There was no recovering them now. You could grieve endlessly for the loss of time and the damage done therein. For the dead, and for your own lost self. But what the wisdom of the ages says is that we do well not to grieve on and on. And those old ones knew a thing or two and had some truth to tell, Inman said, for you can grieve your heart out and in the end you are still where you are. All your grief hasn't changed a thing. What you have lost will not be returned to you. It will always be lost. You're left with only your scars to mark the void. All you can choose to do is go on or not. But if you go on, it's knowing you carry your scars with you. Nevertheless, over all those wasted years, he had held in his mind the wish to kiss her on the back of her neck, and now he had done it. There was a redemption of some kind, he believed, in such complete fulfillment of a desire so long deferred.	Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain	grief, love, separation, war
And Max, the king of all wild things, was lonely and wanted to be where someone loved him best of all.	Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are	love
When you give yourself permission to communicate what matters to you in every situation you will have peace despite rejection or disapproval. Putting a voice to your soul helps you to let go of the negative energy of fear and regret.	Shannon L. Alder	bravery, communication, confidence, disapproval, expressing-yourself, honesty, love, no-regrets, openess, permission, regrets, rejection, soul, speaking-your-mind, talking, truth, voice
Your absence has not taught me to be alone, it merely has shown that when together we cast a single shadow on the wall.	Doug Fetherling	love, relationships, romance
Remember how it was when we kissed? Armfuls and armfuls of light thrown right at us. A rope dropping down from the sky. How can the word love and the word life even fit in the mouth?	Jandy Nelson, The Sky Is Everywhere	life, love, words
No matter what, nobody can take away the dances you've already had.	Gabriel García Márquez, Memories of My Melancholy Whores	love
Perfect love is the most beautiful of all frustrations because it is more than one can express.	Charlie Chaplin	love
Brigan was saying her name, and he was sending her a feeling. It was courage and strength, and something else too, as if he were standing with her, as if he'd taken her within himself, letting her rest her entire body for a moment on his backbone, her mind in his mind, her heart in the fire of his.The fire of Brigan's heart was astounding. Fire understood, and almost could not believe, that the feeling he was sending her was love.	Kristin Cashore, Fire	brigan, courage, feeling, fire, love, strength
My point is that love is the most powerful motivator in the world. It spurs mortals to greatness. Their noblest, bravest acts are done for love.	Rick Riordan, The Lost Hero	bravery, love
Thus with my lips have I denounced you, while my heart, bleeding within me, called you tender names.It was love lashed by its own self that spoke. It was pride half slain that fluttered in the dust. It was my hunger for your love that raged from the housetop, while my own love, kneeling in silence, prayed your forgiveness.	Kahlil Gibran, The Forerunner: His Parables and Poems	betrayal, forgiveness, love, pride
Cities were always like people, showing their varying personalities to the traveler. Depending on the city and on the traveler, there might begin a mutual love, or dislike, friendship, or enmity. Where one city will rise a certain individual to glory, it will destroy another who is not suited to its personality. Only through travel can we know where we belong or not, where we are loved and where we are rejected.	Roman Payne, Cities & Countries	cities, cities-and-countries, city, enmity, glory, love, novel-quote, personalities, rejection, roman-payne, travel, traveler, travelling, urban, voyage
I was the lion who forced you to join with Aravis. I was the cat who comforted you among the houses of the dead. I was the lion who drove the jackals from you while you slept. I was the lion who gave the horses the new strength of fear for the last mill so that you should reach King Lune in time. And I was the lion you do not remember who pushed the boat in which you lay, a child near death, so that it came to shore where a man sat, wakeful at midnight, to receive you.	C.S. Lewis	aslan, love, power
Who saidI can't wear my ConverseWith my dress, well babyThat's just me!	Demi Lovato	love
I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.	Oprah Winfrey	fear, love, opportunity
How can love be worthy of its name if one selects solely the pretty things and leaves out the hardships? It is easy to enjoy the good and dislike the bad. Anybody can do that. The real challenge is to love the good and the bad together, not because you need to take the rough with the smooth but because you need to go beyond such descriptions and accept love in its entirety.	Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love	love
I cannot compromise my respect for your love. You can keep your love, I will keep my respect.	Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words	breaking-up, breakup, breakups, compromise, human, humans, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-quotes, love, motivation, motivational, motivational-quotes, philosophy, respect, respectable, respected, respectful, respecting, respecting-others, respecting-yourself, self-respect, wisdom, wisdom-quotes
Why is the measure of love loss?	Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?	loss, love
Do you like me?”No answer.Silence bounced, fell off his tongueand sat between usand clogged my throat.It slaughtered my trust.It tore cigarettes out of my mouth.We exchanged blind words,and I did not cry,I did not beg,but blackness filled my ears,blackness lunged in my heart,and something that had been good,a sort of kindly oxygen,turned into a gas oven.	Anne Sexton	heartbreak, love, rejection
The end of a relationship is not always a failure. Sometimes all the love in the world is not enough to save something. In these cases, it is not a matter of fault from either person. Some things cannot be, it's as simple as that.	Ashly Lorenzana	failure, fault, goodbyes, love, relationships
My love is pizza shaped. Won’t you have a slice? It’s circular, so there’s enough to go around.	Dora J. Arod, Love quotes for the ages. And the ageless sages.	absurd, food, life, love, love-quote, pizza, relationships, word-junkies
Adam smiled cheerily. Ronan would start wars and burn cities for that true smile, elastic and amiable.	Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven King	adam-parrish, love, ronan-lynch, smile
Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. It's like the tide going out, revealing whatever's been thrown away and sunk: broken bottles, old gloves, rusting pop cans, nibbled fishbodies, bones. This is the kind of thing you see if you sit in the darkness with open eyes, not knowing the future. The ruin you've made.	Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye	love
Dance. Smile. Giggle. Marvel. TRUST. HOPE. LOVE. WISH. BELIEVE. Most of all, enjoy every moment of the journey, and appreciate where you are at this moment instead of always focusing on how far you have to go.	Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass	appreciation, attitude, believe, counting-your-blessings, dance, dancing, faith, faith-in-yourself, gratitude, happiness, happy-life, hope, journey-of-life, live-in-the-moment, living-a-happy-life, living-life-to-the-fullest, love, positive-thinking, seizing-the-day, smile, the-here-and-now, the-present, the-single-woman, trust, wish, your-journey
I wore your promise on my finger for one yearI'll wear your name on my heart til I dieBecause you were my boy, you were my only boy forever.	Coco J. Ginger	breaking-up, breakups, broken-heart, broken-hearted, broken-hearted-quotes, love, love-at-first-sight, love-hurts, lovers, lovers-love-story, lovers-quarrels-lovers, lovers-sadness, moving-on, passion, stories, truths
Love is so unpredictable. That's what makes it so great.	Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby	love
No matter how close we are to another person, few human relationships are as free from strife, disagreement, and frustration as is the relationship you have with a good dog. Few human beings give of themselves to another as a dog gives of itself. I also suspect that we cherish dogs because their unblemished souls make us wish - consciously or unconsciously - that we were as innocent as they are, and make us yearn for a place where innocence is universal and where the meanness, the betrayals, and the cruelties of this world are unknown.	Dean Koontz, A Big Little Life: A Memoir of a Joyful Dog	dogs, love, pets, relationships
In love, one and one are one.	Jean-Paul Sartre	love
This love of which I speak is slow to lose patience - it looks for a way of being constructive.Love is not possessive.Love is not anxious to impress nor does it cherish inflated ideas of its own ideas.Love has good manners and does not pursue selfish advantage.Love is not touchy.Love does not keep account of evil or gloat over the wickedness of other people. On the contrary, it is glad with all good men when truth prevails.Love knows no limits to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. It is, in fact, the one thing that stands when all else has fallen.	Elisabeth Elliot, Let Me be a Woman	christian, love, relationships
I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be...yours.	Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility	devotion, love, pronouncements-of-love
I love the Lord, for he heard my voice; he heard my cry for mercy. Because he turned his ear to me, I will call on him as long as I live. (Psalms 116:1-2 NIV)	Anonymous, Holy Bible: New International Version	bible, cry, god, jesus-christ, life, live, love, mercy, truth, voice
Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. What then kills love? Only this: Neglect. Not to see you when you stand before me. Not to think of you in the little things. Not to make the road wide for you, the table spread for you. To choose you out of habit not desire, to pass the flower seller without a thought. To leave the dishes unwashed, the bed unmade, to ignore you in the mornings, make use of you at night. To crave another while pecking your cheek. To say your name without hearing it, to assume it is mine to call.	Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body	love
I would rather a romantic relationship turn into contempt than turn into apathy. The passion in the extremities make it appear as though it once meant something. We grow from hot or cold, but lukewarm is the biggest insult.	Criss Jami, Killosophy	apathy, breakup, caring, contempt, desire, extreme, hate, hot, love, lukewarm, passion, relationships, romance, scorn, uncaring
They were within twenty yards of each other, and so abrupt was his appearance, that it was impossible to avoid his sight. Their eyes instantly met, and the cheeks of each were overspread with the deepest blush. He absolutely started, and for a moment seemed immoveable from surprise; but shortly recovering himself, advanced towards the party, and spoke to Elizabeth, if not in terms of perfect composure, at least of perfect civility.	Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice	blush, love, romance
I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out.	Elizabeth Barrett Browning	love
In his forty-third year William Stoner learned what others, much younger, had learned before him: that the person one loves at first is not the person one loves at last, and that love is not an end but a process through which one person attempts to know another.	John Williams, Stoner	growth, love
None of us can choose where we shall love...	Susan Kay, Phantom	empathy, love, opera, passion, phantom, sympathy, understanding
Right now we are here, and nothing can mar our perfection, or steal the joy of this perfect moment.	Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife	love, relationships
Remembering. Forgetting. I'm not sure which is worse.	Kelley Armstrong, The Calling	friendship, loss, love, pain
Loving's pretty easy. It's letting someone love you that's hard.	Rita Mae Brown, Riding Shotgun	love
For she had eyes and chose me.	William Shakespeare, Othello	beauty, eyes, looks, love, love-story, lovers
I meant it when I said I didn’t believe in love at first sight. It takes time to really, truly fall for someone. Yet I believe in a moment. A moment when you glimpse the truth within someone, and they glimpse the truth within you. In that moment, you don’t belong to yourself any longer, not completely. Part of you belongs to him; part of him belongs to you. After that, you can’t take it back, no matter how much you want to, no matter how hard you try.	Claudia Gray, A Thousand Pieces of You	love, love-at-first-sight, love-quotes
With me, illusions are bound to be shattered. I am here to shatter all illusions. Yes, it will irritate you, it will annoy you - that's my way of functioning and working. I will sabotage you from your very roots! Unless you are totally destroyed as a mind, there is no hope for you.	Osho	advaita, consciouness, enlightenment, evolution, guru, healing, love, meditation, realization, satsang, spirituality, teacher
I'm not crying because of you you're not worth it. I'm crying because my delusion of who you were was shattered by the truth of who you are.	Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience	broken-heart, crying, delusion, life, love, relationships, truth, worth-it
I'd rather die on my own terms than live on theirs. I'd rather die loving Alex than live without him.	Lauren Oliver, Delirium	alex, delirium, lauren-oliver, lena, love, romance
We are asleep until we fall in Love!	Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace	love
They said that love was terrifying and tender, wild and sweet, and none of it made any sense.But now I knew that every mad word was true.	Rosamund Hodge, Cruel Beauty	love, words
Do people look the same when they go to heaven, mommy?""I don't know. I don't think so.""Then how do people recognize each other?""I don't know, sweetie. They just feel it. You don't need your eyes to love, right?	R.J. Palacio, Wonder	death, heaven, love, wonder
So I’m your huntress and thief?” His hands slid down to cup the backs of my knees as he said with a roguish grin, “You are my salvation, Feyre.	Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury	feyre, huntress, love, rhysand, thief
You will be the first test subject, Tobias. Beatrice, however...." She smiles. "You are too injured to be of much use to me, so your execution will occur at the conclusion of this meeting."I try to hide the shudder that goes through me at the word "execution," my shoulder screaming with pain, and look up at Tobias. It's hard to blink tears back when I see the terror in Tobias's wide, dark eyes."No," says Tobias. His voice trembles, but his look stern as he shakes his head. "I would rather die.""I'm afraid you don't have much of a choice in that matter," replies Jeanine lightly.Tobias takes my face in this hands roughly and kisses me, the pressure of his lips pushing mine apart. I forget my pain and the terror of approaching death and for a moment, I am grateful that the memory of that kiss will be fresh in my mind as I meet my end.	Veronica Roth, Divergent	death, hurt, love
You didn’t think I’d let you go alone, did you?”“No, but I’m grateful that I had you with me.”“Grateful is all I’m going to get, isn’t it?”“What else were you hoping for?”“Adoration, devotion, affection, infatuation, or just plain finding me irresistible.”“Sorry, Don Juan. You’ll have to live with my undying gratitude.	Colleen Houck, Tiger's Quest	love, romance
There is a desire within each of us,in the deep center of ourselves that we call our heart.We were born with it, it is never completely satisfied,and it never dies.We are often unaware of it, but it is always awake.It is the Human desire for Love.Every person in this Earth yearns to love,to be loved, to know love.Our true identity, our reason for beingis to be found in this desire.Love is the "why" of life,why we are functioning at all.I am convincedit is the fundamental energy of the human spirit.the fuel on which we run,the wellspring of our vitality.And grace, which is the flowing,creative activity, of love itself,is what makes all goodness possible.Love should come first,it should be the beginning of,and the reason for everything.	Gerald G. May, Living in Love	human-spirit, love, romance
Fight for the only thing she knew was good enough, noble enough, powerful enough to be worth risking everything... Love.	Lauren Kate	love
The most confused you will ever get is when you try to convince your heart and spirit of something your mind knows is a lie.	Shannon L. Alder	acceptance, actions, beliefs, common-sense, confusion, disbelief, evidence, faith, family, hoping, life-purpose, love, mixed-signals, obvious, outrage, proof, reality, religion, sorrow, timing, truth, unrequited-love
...love is the sum of our choices, the strength of our commitments, the ties that bind us together.	Emily Giffin, Love the One You're With	love
For there is no friend like a sisterIn calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, To fetch one if one goes astray,To lift one if one totters down, To strengthen whilst one stands	Christina Rossetti, Goblin Market and Other Poems	dependability, help, love, sisters
You are protected, in short, by your ability to love!	J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince	goodness, love
Hearts Live By Being Wounded	Oscar Wilde	heart, love, oscar-wilde, wound
The more you are motivated by Love, The more Fearless & Free your action will be.	Dalai Lama XIV	love
I write a lot of songs about love and I think that’s because to me love seems like this huge complicated thing. But it seems like every once in a while, two people get it figured out, two people get it right. And so I think the rest of us, we walk around daydreaming about what that might be like. To find that one great love, where all of a sudden everything that seemed to be so complicated, became simple. And everything that used to seem so wrong all of a sudden seemed right because you were with the person who made you feel fearless.	Taylor Swift	love, quote, taylor-swift
Aelin took a step forward. One step, as if in a daze.She loosed a shuddering breath, and a small, whimpering noise came out of her - a sob. And then she was sprinting down the alley, flying as though the winds themselves pushed at her heels.She flung herself on the male, crashing into him hard enough that anyone else might have gone rocking back into the stone wall. But the male grabbed her to him, his massive arms wrapping around her tightly and lifting her up. Nesryn made to approach, but Aedion stopped her with a hand on her arm.Aelin was laughing as she cried, and the male was just holding her, his hooded head buried in her neck. As if he were breathing her in."Who is that?" Nesryn asked.Aedion smiled. "Rowan.	Sarah J. Maas, Queen of Shadows	aedion-ashryver, aelin-ashryver-galathynius, love, queen-of-shadows, rowan-whitethorn, throne-of-glass
The language of love letters is the same as suicide notes.	Courtney Love, Dirty Blonde: The Diaries of Courtney Love	death, language, love, suicide
Love is illogical. You fall into it like a manhole. Then you're just stuck. You die in love more than you live in love.	Tarryn Fisher, Dirty Red	caleb, dirty-red, leah, love, love-me-with-lies, olivia
I love you, he thought, looking at Win. I love every part of you, every thought and word... the entire complex, fascinating bundle of all the things you are. I want you with ten different kinds of need at once. I love all the seasons of you, the way you are now, the thought of how much more beautiful you'll be in the decades to come. I love you for being the answer to every question my heart could ask.	Lisa Kleypas, Seduce Me at Sunrise	devotion, hathaway, love, merripen
When forever becomes a place...when forever ceases to be just a word… when it ceases to be just a measurement of time…but instead becomes a place where soul mates can dance to the song in their hearts... that is a reflection of true love.	Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free	action, forever, hearts, inspirational, life, love, relationships, true-love
Tell me then, does love make one a fool or do only fools fall in love?	Orhan Pamuk, My Name is Red	love
He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.	Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina	anna-karenina, fear, levin, love
Nothing in life is worth,turning your back on,if you love it.	Albert Camus	life, love
I am not a believer in love at first sight. For love, in its truest form, is not the thingof starry-eyed or star-crossed lovers, it is far more organic, requiring nurturing and timeto fully bloom, and, as such, seen best not in its callow youth but in its wrinkled maturity.Like all living things, love, too, struggles against hardship, and in the process shedsits fatuous skin to expose one composed of more than just a storm of emotion–one of loyaltyand divine friendship. Agape. And though it may be temporarily blinded by adversity,it never gives in or up, holding tight to lofty ideals that transcend this earth andtime–while its counterfeit simply concludes it was mistaken and quickly runs off tofind the next real thing.	Richard Paul Evans, The Letter	love
Eternity is in love with the productions of time.	William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell	love, time
And then I opened my eyes and it was just Grace and me - nothing anywhere but Grace and me - she pressing her lips together as though she were keeping my kiss inside her, and me, holding this moment that was as fragile as a bird in my hands.	Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver	kissing, love
You are my butterfly and refuse to set you free.	Shannon Hale	freedom, love
He promised her that he would give her everything, everything she wanted, as men in love always do. And she trusted him despite herself, as women in love always do.	Philippa Gregory, The White Queen	love
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
Love as thou wilt	Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Chosen	love
If only it were possible to love without injury – fidelity isn’t enough: I had been faithful to Anne and yet I had injured her. The hurt is in the act of possession: we are too small in mind and body to possess another person without pride or to be possessed without humiliation. In a way I was glad that my wife had struck out at me again – I had forgotten her pain for too long, and this was the only kind of recompense I could give her. Unfortunately the innocent are always involved in any conflict. Always, everywhere, there is some voice crying from a tower.	Graham Greene	guilt, life, love, philosophy
His noise is getting quieter, but I can still see it there still-See how he feels the skin of my hand against his, see how he wants to take it and press it against his mouth, how he wants to breathe in the smell of me and how beautiful I look to him, how strong after all that illness, and how he wants to just lightly touch my neck, just there, and how he wants to take me in his arms and-"Oh, God," he says, looking away suddenly. "Viola, I'm sorry, I didn't mean-"But I just put my hand to the back of his neck-And he says, "Viola-?"And I pull myself towards him-And I kiss him.And it feels like, finally.	Patrick Ness, Monsters of Men	kiss, love, todd, viola
I've no more business to marry Edgar Linton than I have to be in heaven and if the wicked man in there had not brought Heathcliff so low I shouldn't have thought of it. It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff now so he shall never know how I love him and that not because he's handsome Nelly but because he's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of his and mine are the same and Linton's is as different as a moonbeam from lightning or frost from fire.	Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights	likeness, love, marriage, souls
But everyone disappears, no matter who loves them.	Dave Eggers, What Is the What	fatalism, love
I haven't had that one great love, which is good. I don't want that to be in the past, I want it to be in the future.	Taylor Swift	future-past, love

Physical love is unthinkable without violence.

Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

love, relationships, romance, violence

The first stab of love is like a sunset, a blaze of color -- oranges, pearly pinks, vibrant purples...

Anna Godbersen, The Luxe

beauty, colors, first-love, love, sunset

He is ugly and sad... but he is all love.

Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

love

Learn to deal with the fact that you are not a perfect person but you are a person that deserves respect and honesty.

Pandora Poikilos, Excuse Me, My Brains Have Stepped Out

brain, love, relationships, self-help, vp-shunt

She didn't need to understand the meaning of life; it was enough to find someone who did, and then fall asleep in his arms and sleep as a child sleeps, knowing that someone stronger than you is protecting you from all evil and all danger

Paulo Coelho, Brida

love, protection, support

Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have , so to speak , pawned a part of their narcissism.

Sigmund Freud

change, life, love, personality

Percy pulled Annabeth close and kissed her...long enough for it to get really awkward for Piper, though she said nothing. She thought about the old rule of Aphrodite's cabin: that to be recognized as a daughter of the love goddess, you had to break someone's heart. Piper had long ago decided to change that rule. Percy and Annabeth were a perfect example of why. You should have to make someone`s heart whole; that was a much better test.

Rick Riordan, The Blood of Olympus

annabeth, aphrodite, awww, love, percabeth, percy-jackson, piper-mclean

If I had a camera,' I said, 'I'd take a picture of you every day. That way I'd remember how you looked every single day of your life.

Nicole Krauss

life, love

Calling it a simple schoolgirl crush was like saying a Rolls-Royce was a vehicle with four wheels, something like a hay-wagon. She did not giggle wildly and blush when she saw him, nor did she chalk his name on trees or write it on the walls of the Kissing Bridge. She simply lived with his face in her heart all the time, a kind of sweet, hurtful ache. She would have died for him..

Stephen King, It

love, mania

The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.

Walter Benjamin

hope, love

I know what it is to live entirely for and with what I love best on earth. I hold myself supremely blest -- blest beyond what language can express because I am my husband's life as fully as he is mine.

Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

husband, love, marriage, wife

Better than chocolate, being with you last night. Silly me, I thought that nothing was better than chocolate.

E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

love

Living simply makes loving simple.

bell hooks

love, simplicity

You know all that sympathy that you feel for an abused child who suffers without a good mom or dad to love and care for them? Well, they don't stay children forever. No one magically becomes an adult the day they turn eighteen. Some people grow up sooner, many grow up later. Some never really do. But just remember that some people in this world are older versions of those same kids we cry for.

Ashly Lorenzana

abuse, children, depression, kids, love, parents, sadness

Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year.

Chad Sugg

autumn, encourage, fall, inspirational, life, love, nature, trees

Frustration and Love can’t exist in the same place at the same time, so get real and start doing what you would rather be doing in life. Love your life. All of it. Even the heavy shit that happened to you when you were 8. All of it was and IS perfect.

Jason Mraz

healing, inspirational, life, love, past, spiritual, truth

Physics isn't the most important thing. Love is.

Richard Feynman

love, philosophy, physics, priorities

A warrior does not give up what he loves, he finds the love in what he does

Dan Millman, Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives

give-up, love, warrior

I was trying to make you jealous!" Simon screamed, right back. His hands were fisted at his sides. "You're so stupid, Clary. You're so stupid, can't you see anything?"She stared at him in bewilderment. What on earth did he mean? "Trying to make me jealous? Why would you try to do that?"She saw immediately that this was the worst thing she could have asked him."Because," he said, so bitterly that it shocked her, "I've been in love with you for ten years, so I thought it seemed like the time to find out whether you felt the same about me. Which, I guess you don't.

Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

cassandra-clare, city-of-bones, clary-fray, declarations-of-love, love, paranormal, simon-lewis, the-mortal-instruments, unrequited-love

When she opened her eyes, she was both in her body and watching it, nowhere near the cavity of the tree. The Blue that was before her stood inches from a boy in an Aglionby sweater. There was a slight stoop to his posture, and his shoulders were spattered darkly with rain. It was his fingers that Blue felt on her face. He touched her cheek with the backs of his fingers. Tears coursed down the other Blue's face. Though some strange magic, Blue could feel them on her face as well. She could feel, too, sick, rising misery she'd felt in the churchyard, the grief that felt bigger than her. The other Blue's tears seemed endless. One drop slid after another, each following an identical path down her cheeks.The boy in the Aglionby sweater leaned his forehead against Blue's. She felt the pressure of his skin against hers, and suddenly she could smell mint. It'll be okay. Gansey told the other Blue. She could tell that he was afraid. It'll be okay.Impossibly, Blue realized that this other Blue was crying because she loved Gansey. And that the reason Gansey touched her like that, his fingers so careful with her, was because he knew that her kiss could kill him. She could feel how badly the other Blue wanted to kiss him, even as she dreaded it. Though she couldn't understand why, her real, present day memories in the tree cavity were clouded with other false memories of their lips nearly touching, a life this other Blue had already lived.Okay, I'm ready- Gansey's voice caught, just a little. Blue, kiss me.

Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

kiss, love, sad

Love those you hate you.

Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

hate, inspirational, love

She fit her head under his chin, and he could feel her weight settle into him. He held her tight and words spilled out of him without prior composition. And this time he made no effort to clamp them off. He told her about the first time he had looked on the back of her neck as she sat in the church pew. Of the feeling that had never let go of him since. He talked to her of the great waste of years between then and now. A long time gone. And it was pointless, he said, to think how those years could have been put to better use, for he could hardly have put them to worse. There was no recovering them now. You could grieve endlessly for the loss of time and the damage done therein. For the dead, and for your own lost self. But what the wisdom of the ages says is that we do well not to grieve on and on. And those old ones knew a thing or two and had some truth to tell, Inman said, for you can grieve your heart out and in the end you are still where you are. All your grief hasn't changed a thing. What you have lost will not be returned to you. It will always be lost. You're left with only your scars to mark the void. All you can choose to do is go on or not. But if you go on, it's knowing you carry your scars with you. Nevertheless, over all those wasted years, he had held in his mind the wish to kiss her on the back of her neck, and now he had done it. There was a redemption of some kind, he believed, in such complete fulfillment of a desire so long deferred.

Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain

grief, love, separation, war

And Max, the king of all wild things, was lonely and wanted to be where someone loved him best of all.

Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are

love

When you give yourself permission to communicate what matters to you in every situation you will have peace despite rejection or disapproval. Putting a voice to your soul helps you to let go of the negative energy of fear and regret.

Shannon L. Alder

bravery, communication, confidence, disapproval, expressing-yourself, honesty, love, no-regrets, openess, permission, regrets, rejection, soul, speaking-your-mind, talking, truth, voice

Your absence has not taught me to be alone, it merely has shown that when together we cast a single shadow on the wall.

Doug Fetherling

love, relationships, romance

Remember how it was when we kissed? Armfuls and armfuls of light thrown right at us. A rope dropping down from the sky. How can the word love and the word life even fit in the mouth?

Jandy Nelson, The Sky Is Everywhere

life, love, words

No matter what, nobody can take away the dances you've already had.

Gabriel García Márquez, Memories of My Melancholy Whores

love

Perfect love is the most beautiful of all frustrations because it is more than one can express.

Charlie Chaplin

love

Brigan was saying her name, and he was sending her a feeling. It was courage and strength, and something else too, as if he were standing with her, as if he'd taken her within himself, letting her rest her entire body for a moment on his backbone, her mind in his mind, her heart in the fire of his.The fire of Brigan's heart was astounding. Fire understood, and almost could not believe, that the feeling he was sending her was love.

Kristin Cashore, Fire

brigan, courage, feeling, fire, love, strength

My point is that love is the most powerful motivator in the world. It spurs mortals to greatness. Their noblest, bravest acts are done for love.

Rick Riordan, The Lost Hero

bravery, love

Thus with my lips have I denounced you, while my heart, bleeding within me, called you tender names.It was love lashed by its own self that spoke. It was pride half slain that fluttered in the dust. It was my hunger for your love that raged from the housetop, while my own love, kneeling in silence, prayed your forgiveness.

Kahlil Gibran, The Forerunner: His Parables and Poems

betrayal, forgiveness, love, pride

Cities were always like people, showing their varying personalities to the traveler. Depending on the city and on the traveler, there might begin a mutual love, or dislike, friendship, or enmity. Where one city will rise a certain individual to glory, it will destroy another who is not suited to its personality. Only through travel can we know where we belong or not, where we are loved and where we are rejected.

Roman Payne, Cities & Countries

cities, cities-and-countries, city, enmity, glory, love, novel-quote, personalities, rejection, roman-payne, travel, traveler, travelling, urban, voyage

I was the lion who forced you to join with Aravis. I was the cat who comforted you among the houses of the dead. I was the lion who drove the jackals from you while you slept. I was the lion who gave the horses the new strength of fear for the last mill so that you should reach King Lune in time. And I was the lion you do not remember who pushed the boat in which you lay, a child near death, so that it came to shore where a man sat, wakeful at midnight, to receive you.

C.S. Lewis

aslan, love, power

Who saidI can't wear my ConverseWith my dress, well babyThat's just me!

Demi Lovato

love

I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.

Oprah Winfrey

fear, love, opportunity

How can love be worthy of its name if one selects solely the pretty things and leaves out the hardships? It is easy to enjoy the good and dislike the bad. Anybody can do that. The real challenge is to love the good and the bad together, not because you need to take the rough with the smooth but because you need to go beyond such descriptions and accept love in its entirety.

Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love

love

I cannot compromise my respect for your love. You can keep your love, I will keep my respect.

Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

breaking-up, breakup, breakups, compromise, human, humans, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-quotes, love, motivation, motivational, motivational-quotes, philosophy, respect, respectable, respected, respectful, respecting, respecting-others, respecting-yourself, self-respect, wisdom, wisdom-quotes

Why is the measure of love loss?

Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

loss, love

Do you like me?”No answer.Silence bounced, fell off his tongueand sat between usand clogged my throat.It slaughtered my trust.It tore cigarettes out of my mouth.We exchanged blind words,and I did not cry,I did not beg,but blackness filled my ears,blackness lunged in my heart,and something that had been good,a sort of kindly oxygen,turned into a gas oven.

Anne Sexton

heartbreak, love, rejection

The end of a relationship is not always a failure. Sometimes all the love in the world is not enough to save something. In these cases, it is not a matter of fault from either person. Some things cannot be, it's as simple as that.

Ashly Lorenzana

failure, fault, goodbyes, love, relationships

My love is pizza shaped. Won’t you have a slice? It’s circular, so there’s enough to go around. 

Dora J. Arod, Love quotes for the ages. And the ageless sages.

absurd, food, life, love, love-quote, pizza, relationships, word-junkies

Adam smiled cheerily. Ronan would start wars and burn cities for that true smile, elastic and amiable.

Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven King

adam-parrish, love, ronan-lynch, smile

Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. It's like the tide going out, revealing whatever's been thrown away and sunk: broken bottles, old gloves, rusting pop cans, nibbled fishbodies, bones. This is the kind of thing you see if you sit in the darkness with open eyes, not knowing the future. The ruin you've made.

Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye

love

Dance. Smile. Giggle. Marvel. TRUST. HOPE. LOVE. WISH. BELIEVE. Most of all, enjoy every moment of the journey, and appreciate where you are at this moment instead of always focusing on how far you have to go.

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

appreciation, attitude, believe, counting-your-blessings, dance, dancing, faith, faith-in-yourself, gratitude, happiness, happy-life, hope, journey-of-life, live-in-the-moment, living-a-happy-life, living-life-to-the-fullest, love, positive-thinking, seizing-the-day, smile, the-here-and-now, the-present, the-single-woman, trust, wish, your-journey

I wore your promise on my finger for one yearI'll wear your name on my heart til I dieBecause you were my boy, you were my only boy forever.

Coco J. Ginger

breaking-up, breakups, broken-heart, broken-hearted, broken-hearted-quotes, love, love-at-first-sight, love-hurts, lovers, lovers-love-story, lovers-quarrels-lovers, lovers-sadness, moving-on, passion, stories, truths

Love is so unpredictable. That's what makes it so great.

Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby

love

No matter how close we are to another person, few human relationships are as free from strife, disagreement, and frustration as is the relationship you have with a good dog. Few human beings give of themselves to another as a dog gives of itself. I also suspect that we cherish dogs because their unblemished souls make us wish - consciously or unconsciously - that we were as innocent as they are, and make us yearn for a place where innocence is universal and where the meanness, the betrayals, and the cruelties of this world are unknown.

Dean Koontz, A Big Little Life: A Memoir of a Joyful Dog

dogs, love, pets, relationships

In love, one and one are one.

Jean-Paul Sartre

love

This love of which I speak is slow to lose patience - it looks for a way of being constructive.Love is not possessive.Love is not anxious to impress nor does it cherish inflated ideas of its own ideas.Love has good manners and does not pursue selfish advantage.Love is not touchy.Love does not keep account of evil or gloat over the wickedness of other people. On the contrary, it is glad with all good men when truth prevails.Love knows no limits to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. It is, in fact, the one thing that stands when all else has fallen.

Elisabeth Elliot, Let Me be a Woman

christian, love, relationships

I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be...yours.

Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

devotion, love, pronouncements-of-love

I love the Lord, for he heard my voice; he heard my cry for mercy. Because he turned his ear to me, I will call on him as long as I live. (Psalms 116:1-2 NIV)

Anonymous, Holy Bible: New International Version

bible, cry, god, jesus-christ, life, live, love, mercy, truth, voice

Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. What then kills love? Only this: Neglect. Not to see you when you stand before me. Not to think of you in the little things. Not to make the road wide for you, the table spread for you. To choose you out of habit not desire, to pass the flower seller without a thought. To leave the dishes unwashed, the bed unmade, to ignore you in the mornings, make use of you at night. To crave another while pecking your cheek. To say your name without hearing it, to assume it is mine to call.

Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body

love

I would rather a romantic relationship turn into contempt than turn into apathy. The passion in the extremities make it appear as though it once meant something. We grow from hot or cold, but lukewarm is the biggest insult.

Criss Jami, Killosophy

apathy, breakup, caring, contempt, desire, extreme, hate, hot, love, lukewarm, passion, relationships, romance, scorn, uncaring

They were within twenty yards of each other, and so abrupt was his appearance, that it was impossible to avoid his sight. Their eyes instantly met, and the cheeks of each were overspread with the deepest blush. He absolutely started, and for a moment seemed immoveable from surprise; but shortly recovering himself, advanced towards the party, and spoke to Elizabeth, if not in terms of perfect composure, at least of perfect civility.

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

blush, love, romance

I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

love

In his forty-third year William Stoner learned what others, much younger, had learned before him: that the person one loves at first is not the person one loves at last, and that love is not an end but a process through which one person attempts to know another.

John Williams, Stoner

growth, love

None of us can choose where we shall love...

Susan Kay, Phantom

empathy, love, opera, passion, phantom, sympathy, understanding

Right now we are here, and nothing can mar our perfection, or steal the joy of this perfect moment.

Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

love, relationships

Remembering. Forgetting. I'm not sure which is worse.

Kelley Armstrong, The Calling

friendship, loss, love, pain

Loving's pretty easy. It's letting someone love you that's hard.

Rita Mae Brown, Riding Shotgun

love

For she had eyes and chose me.

William Shakespeare, Othello

beauty, eyes, looks, love, love-story, lovers

I meant it when I said I didn’t believe in love at first sight. It takes time to really, truly fall for someone. Yet I believe in a moment. A moment when you glimpse the truth within someone, and they glimpse the truth within you. In that moment, you don’t belong to yourself any longer, not completely. Part of you belongs to him; part of him belongs to you. After that, you can’t take it back, no matter how much you want to, no matter how hard you try.

Claudia Gray, A Thousand Pieces of You

love, love-at-first-sight, love-quotes

With me, illusions are bound to be shattered. I am here to shatter all illusions. Yes, it will irritate you, it will annoy you - that's my way of functioning and working. I will sabotage you from your very roots! Unless you are totally destroyed as a mind, there is no hope for you.

Osho

advaita, consciouness, enlightenment, evolution, guru, healing, love, meditation, realization, satsang, spirituality, teacher

I'm not crying because of you you're not worth it. I'm crying because my delusion of who you were was shattered by the truth of who you are.

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

broken-heart, crying, delusion, life, love, relationships, truth, worth-it

I'd rather die on my own terms than live on theirs. I'd rather die loving Alex than live without him.

Lauren Oliver, Delirium

alex, delirium, lauren-oliver, lena, love, romance

We are asleep until we fall in Love!

Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

love

They said that love was terrifying and tender, wild and sweet, and none of it made any sense.But now I knew that every mad word was true.

Rosamund Hodge, Cruel Beauty

love, words

Do people look the same when they go to heaven, mommy?""I don't know. I don't think so.""Then how do people recognize each other?""I don't know, sweetie. They just feel it. You don't need your eyes to love, right?

R.J. Palacio, Wonder

death, heaven, love, wonder

So I’m your huntress and thief?” His hands slid down to cup the backs of my knees as he said with a roguish grin, “You are my salvation, Feyre.

Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

feyre, huntress, love, rhysand, thief

You will be the first test subject, Tobias. Beatrice, however...." She smiles. "You are too injured to be of much use to me, so your execution will occur at the conclusion of this meeting."I try to hide the shudder that goes through me at the word "execution," my shoulder screaming with pain, and look up at Tobias. It's hard to blink tears back when I see the terror in Tobias's wide, dark eyes."No," says Tobias. His voice trembles, but his look stern as he shakes his head. "I would rather die.""I'm afraid you don't have much of a choice in that matter," replies Jeanine lightly.Tobias takes my face in this hands roughly and kisses me, the pressure of his lips pushing mine apart. I forget my pain and the terror of approaching death and for a moment, I am grateful that the memory of that kiss will be fresh in my mind as I meet my end.

Veronica Roth, Divergent

death, hurt, love

You didn’t think I’d let you go alone, did you?”“No, but I’m grateful that I had you with me.”“Grateful is all I’m going to get, isn’t it?”“What else were you hoping for?”“Adoration, devotion, affection, infatuation, or just plain finding me irresistible.”“Sorry, Don Juan. You’ll have to live with my undying gratitude.

Colleen Houck, Tiger's Quest

love, romance

There is a desire within each of us,in the deep center of ourselves that we call our heart.We were born with it, it is never completely satisfied,and it never dies.We are often unaware of it, but it is always awake.It is the Human desire for Love.Every person in this Earth yearns to love,to be loved, to know love.Our true identity, our reason for beingis to be found in this desire.Love is the "why" of life,why we are functioning at all.I am convincedit is the fundamental energy of the human spirit.the fuel on which we run,the wellspring of our vitality.And grace, which is the flowing,creative activity, of love itself,is what makes all goodness possible.Love should come first,it should be the beginning of,and the reason for everything.

Gerald G. May, Living in Love

human-spirit, love, romance

Fight for the only thing she knew was good enough, noble enough, powerful enough to be worth risking everything... Love.

Lauren Kate

love

The most confused you will ever get is when you try to convince your heart and spirit of something your mind knows is a lie.

Shannon L. Alder

acceptance, actions, beliefs, common-sense, confusion, disbelief, evidence, faith, family, hoping, life-purpose, love, mixed-signals, obvious, outrage, proof, reality, religion, sorrow, timing, truth, unrequited-love

...love is the sum of our choices, the strength of our commitments, the ties that bind us together.

Emily Giffin, Love the One You're With

love

For there is no friend like a sisterIn calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, To fetch one if one goes astray,To lift one if one totters down, To strengthen whilst one stands

Christina Rossetti, Goblin Market and Other Poems

dependability, help, love, sisters

You are protected, in short, by your ability to love!

J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

goodness, love

Hearts Live By Being Wounded

Oscar Wilde

heart, love, oscar-wilde, wound

The more you are motivated by Love, The more Fearless & Free your action will be.

Dalai Lama XIV

love

I write a lot of songs about love and I think that’s because to me love seems like this huge complicated thing. But it seems like every once in a while, two people get it figured out, two people get it right. And so I think the rest of us, we walk around daydreaming about what that might be like. To find that one great love, where all of a sudden everything that seemed to be so complicated, became simple. And everything that used to seem so wrong all of a sudden seemed right because you were with the person who made you feel fearless.

Taylor Swift

love, quote, taylor-swift

Aelin took a step forward. One step, as if in a daze.She loosed a shuddering breath, and a small, whimpering noise came out of her - a sob. And then she was sprinting down the alley, flying as though the winds themselves pushed at her heels.She flung herself on the male, crashing into him hard enough that anyone else might have gone rocking back into the stone wall. But the male grabbed her to him, his massive arms wrapping around her tightly and lifting her up. Nesryn made to approach, but Aedion stopped her with a hand on her arm.Aelin was laughing as she cried, and the male was just holding her, his hooded head buried in her neck. As if he were breathing her in."Who is that?" Nesryn asked.Aedion smiled. "Rowan.

Sarah J. Maas, Queen of Shadows

aedion-ashryver, aelin-ashryver-galathynius, love, queen-of-shadows, rowan-whitethorn, throne-of-glass

The language of love letters is the same as suicide notes.

Courtney Love, Dirty Blonde: The Diaries of Courtney Love

death, language, love, suicide

Love is illogical. You fall into it like a manhole. Then you're just stuck. You die in love more than you live in love.

Tarryn Fisher, Dirty Red

caleb, dirty-red, leah, love, love-me-with-lies, olivia

I love you, he thought, looking at Win. I love every part of you, every thought and word... the entire complex, fascinating bundle of all the things you are. I want you with ten different kinds of need at once. I love all the seasons of you, the way you are now, the thought of how much more beautiful you'll be in the decades to come. I love you for being the answer to every question my heart could ask.

Lisa Kleypas, Seduce Me at Sunrise

devotion, hathaway, love, merripen

When forever becomes a place...when forever ceases to be just a word… when it ceases to be just a measurement of time…but instead becomes a place where soul mates can dance to the song in their hearts... that is a reflection of true love.

Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

action, forever, hearts, inspirational, life, love, relationships, true-love

Tell me then, does love make one a fool or do only fools fall in love?

Orhan Pamuk, My Name is Red

love

He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.

Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

anna-karenina, fear, levin, love

Nothing in life is worth,turning your back on,if you love it.

Albert Camus

life, love

I am not a believer in love at first sight. For love, in its truest form, is not the thingof starry-eyed or star-crossed lovers, it is far more organic, requiring nurturing and timeto fully bloom, and, as such, seen best not in its callow youth but in its wrinkled maturity.Like all living things, love, too, struggles against hardship, and in the process shedsits fatuous skin to expose one composed of more than just a storm of emotion–one of loyaltyand divine friendship. Agape. And though it may be temporarily blinded by adversity,it never gives in or up, holding tight to lofty ideals that transcend this earth andtime–while its counterfeit simply concludes it was mistaken and quickly runs off tofind the next real thing.

Richard Paul Evans, The Letter

love

Eternity is in love with the productions of time.

William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

love, time

And then I opened my eyes and it was just Grace and me - nothing anywhere but Grace and me - she pressing her lips together as though she were keeping my kiss inside her, and me, holding this moment that was as fragile as a bird in my hands.

Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver

kissing, love

You are my butterfly and refuse to set you free.

Shannon Hale

freedom, love

He promised her that he would give her everything, everything she wanted, as men in love always do. And she trusted him despite herself, as women in love always do.

Philippa Gregory, The White Queen

love

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

Love as thou wilt

Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Chosen

love

If only it were possible to love without injury – fidelity isn’t enough: I had been faithful to Anne and yet I had injured her. The hurt is in the act of possession: we are too small in mind and body to possess another person without pride or to be possessed without humiliation. In a way I was glad that my wife had struck out at me again – I had forgotten her pain for too long, and this was the only kind of recompense I could give her. Unfortunately the innocent are always involved in any conflict. Always, everywhere, there is some voice crying from a tower.

Graham Greene

guilt, life, love, philosophy

His noise is getting quieter, but I can still see it there still-See how he feels the skin of my hand against his, see how he wants to take it and press it against his mouth, how he wants to breathe in the smell of me and how beautiful I look to him, how strong after all that illness, and how he wants to just lightly touch my neck, just there, and how he wants to take me in his arms and-"Oh, God," he says, looking away suddenly. "Viola, I'm sorry, I didn't mean-"But I just put my hand to the back of his neck-And he says, "Viola-?"And I pull myself towards him-And I kiss him.And it feels like, finally.

Patrick Ness, Monsters of Men

kiss, love, todd, viola

I've no more business to marry Edgar Linton than I have to be in heaven and if the wicked man in there had not brought Heathcliff so low I shouldn't have thought of it. It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff now so he shall never know how I love him and that not because he's handsome Nelly but because he's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of his and mine are the same and Linton's is as different as a moonbeam from lightning or frost from fire.

Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

likeness, love, marriage, souls

But everyone disappears, no matter who loves them.

Dave Eggers, What Is the What

fatalism, love

I haven't had that one great love, which is good. I don't want that to be in the past, I want it to be in the future.

Taylor Swift

future-past, love