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Love...no such thing.Whatever it is that binds families and married couples together, that's not love. That's stupidity or selfishness or fear. Love doesn't exist. Self interest exists, attachment based on personal gain exists, complacency exists. But not love. Love has to be reinvented, that’s certain.	Arthur Rimbaud, A Season in Hell/The Drunken Boat	love
I've been saying it so long to you, you just wouldn't listen. Every time you said 'Farm Boy do this' you thought I was answering 'As you wish' but that's only because you were hearing wrong. 'I love you' was what it was, but you never heard.	William Goldman, The Princess Bride	codes, devotion, ignorance, love
These pictures are my heart. And if my heart was a canvas, every square inch of it would be painted over with you.	Cassandra Clare, Lady Midnight	emma-carstairs, julian-blackthorn, lady-midnight, love
Let me tell ya. You gotta pay attention to signs. When life reaches out with a moment like this it's a sin if you don't reach back... I'm telling you.	Matthew Quick, The Silver Linings Playbook	chance, love, opportunity
True friends are those who came into your life, saw the most negative part of you, but are not ready to leave you, no matter how contagious you are to them.	Michael Bassey Johnson, The Infinity Sign	acceptance, affection, friendship, love, loyalty, power-of-love, secrets, true-friends, true-love, trust
Love is not blind that is the last thing that it is. Love is bound and the more it is bound the less it is blind.	G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy	love
Their fingers seemed to fit together in just the right way- effortlessly clasped,like perfect complements.	Nicholas Sparks	love
Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.	Bertrand Russell	amity, companionship, life, love
He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.	Leo Tolstoy	closeness, love, soul-mate
But, my God, it's so beautiful when the boy smiles	Anna Nalick	boyfriend, love, missing-you, romance, smile, song-lyrics
I love you with everything I am, everything I've been, and everything I hope to be. I love you with my past, and I love you for my future. I love you for the children we'll have and for the years we'll have together. I love you for every one of my smiles and even more, for every one of your smiles.	Julia Quinn, Romancing Mister Bridgerton	adoration, colin-bridgerton, love
There are so many men, all endlessly attempting to sweep me off my feet. And there is one of you, trying just the opposite. Making sure my feet are firm beneath me, lest I fall.	Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear	empathy, freedom, friendship, love, men, respect, women
And maybe that was love. Being so vulnerable and allowing someone else in so far they could hurt you, but they also give you everything.	Christine Feehan, Water Bound	hurt, love, vulnerability
You can never be wise and be in love at the same time.	Bob Dylan	bob-dylan, love
I close my eyes, thinking that there is nothing like an embrace after an absence, nothing like fitting my face into the curve of his shoulder and filling my lungs with the scent of him.	Jodi Picoult, Keeping Faith	love, reunion
There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul.	Edith Wharton	friendship, love, meaning, soul, soul-mate
It's not enough to believe! Don't you see that, you stupid girl? You could spend your whole life hoping and believing! If a love affair is one-sided, then it's only ever a question, never an answer. You can't live your life waiting for an answer.	Sophie Kinsella, Twenties Girl	love
I love you, Marks. My heart is completely and utterly yours. And unfortunately for you, the rest of me comes with it.	Lisa Kleypas, Married By Morning	hathaway, lisa-kleypas, love
I am no king, and I am no lord,And I am no soldier at-arms," said he."I'm none but a harper, and a very poor harper,That am come hither to wed with ye.""If you were a lord, you should be my lord,And the same if you were a thief," said she."And if you are a harper, you shall be my harper,For it makes no matter to me, to me,For it makes no matter to me.""But what if it prove that I am no harper?That I lied for your love most monstrously?""Why, then I'll teach you to play and sing,For I dearly love a good harp," said she.	Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn	ending, humor, inspirational, love, lyrics, poe
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	genius, love
Depression is the flaw in love. To be creatures who love, we must be creatures who can despair at what we lose, and depression is the mechanism of that despair.	Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression	depression, despair, loss, love
Love: the sickest of Irony’s sick jokes. The place where logic and order go to die.	Christopher Moore, Coyote Blue	love
A: The soul wanders in the dark, until it finds love. And so, wherever our love goes, there we find our soul.Q: It always happens?A: If we're lucky. And if we let ourselves be blind. Q: Instead of watching out?A: Instead of always watching out.	Mary Zimmerman, Metamorphoses	completion, love
That was the only time, as I stood there, looking at that strange rubbish, feeling the wind coming across those empty fields, that I started to imagine just a little fantasy thing, because this was Norfolk after all, and it was only a couple of weeks since I’d lost him. I was thinking about the rubbish, the flapping plastic in the branches, the shore-line of odd stuff caught along the fencing, and I half-closed my eyes and imagined this was the spot where everything I'd ever lost since my childhood had washed up, and I was now standing here in front of it, and if I waited long enough, a tiny figure would appear on the horizon across the field, and gradually get larger until I'd see it was Tommy, and he'd wave, maybe even call. The fantasy never got beyond that --I didn't let it-- and though the tears rolled down my face, I wasn't sobbing or out of control. I just waited a bit, then turned back to the car, to drive off to wherever it was I was supposed to be.	Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go	loss, love, moving-on
You have made a place in my heart where I thought there was no room for anything else. You have made flowers grow where I cultivated dust and stones. Remember this, on this journey you insist on making. If you die, I will not survive you long.	Robert Jordan, The Shadow Rising	love
Jealous?""Maybe.""No reason. I like my ladies with a pulse.	Rachel Caine, Feast of Fools	love, vampires
But no matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it. You have ot believe in love stories and prince charmings and happily ever after. That's why I write these songs. Because I think love is FEARLESS.	Taylor Swift	fearless, love
I’m a fake fact factory. The things I make are the things I make up. Also, as a side business, I make love. Actually, I just made that up.	Dora J. Arod, Love quotes for the ages. And the ageless sages.	business, fact, factory, facts, funny, humor, life, love, word-junkies
Love simply is.	Paulo Coelho, The Witch Of Portobello	love
Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy.	Warren W. Wiersbe	diplomacy, hypocrisy, love, tact, truth, truth-telling
...the opposite of love is not hate -- it's apathy. It's not giving a damn. If somebody hates me, they must "feel" something ... or they couldn't possibly hate. Therefore, there's some way in which I can get to them.	Leo Buscaglia	apathy, hatred, love, relationships
Can't you just like a girl who likes you back?''None of them likes me back. I may as well like the one I really want.	Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park	crush, high-school, humor, love
I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can't love and do nothing.	Graham Greene, The End of the Affair	infatuation, love
All the problem of women, starts with men. All the problem of men, ends with women.	Santosh Kalwar, Quote Me Everyday	inspirational, love, men, problem, women
No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?	Albert Einstein	chemistry, first-love, love, physics
She was bendable light: she shone around every corner of my day.	Jerry Spinelli, Stargirl	light, love
What's your heart telling you to do?I don't know.'Maybe, you're trying too hard to hear it.	Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember	love, mother, son
But hurry, let's entwine ourselves as one, our mouth broken, our soul bitten by love, so time discovers us safely destroyed.	Federico García Lorca	bitten, broken, destroyed, entwine, federico-garcia-lorca, love, mouth, sonnet-of-the-garland-of-roses, soul
I never lie," I said offhand. "At least not to those I don't love.	Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat	compassion, deciet, hate, interview-with-the-vampire, lestat, lie, lies, love, lovers, lying, secret, secrets, truth, vampire, vampires
Love, like everything else in life, should be a discovery, an adventure, and like most adventures, you don’t know you’re having one until you’re right in the middle of it.	E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly	adventure, adventures, adventures-in-love, catholic-author, discovery, experiences, first-love, life, life-changing, life-experience, life-lesson, love, romance, romantic, self-discovery, true-love
But why, why, why can't people just say what they mean?	Graeme Simsion, The Rosie Project	confusion, love, relationships, the-rosie-project
Nothing else wounds so deeply and irreparably. Nothing else robs us of hope so much as being unloved by one we love	Clive Barker	abarat, absolute-midnight, clive-barker, hate, hurt, love, wounds
Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.	Friedrich Nietzsche	love
In fairy tales, the princesses kiss the frogs, and the frogs become princes. In real life, the pricesses kiss princes, and the princes turn into frogs.	Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept	life, love
It seems to me now that the plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone you don't need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone.	Nick Hornby, How to Be Good	heroin, humanity, love, poetry
Love is not finding someone to live with. It's finding someone you can't live without.	Rafael Ortiz	love
Soul meets soul on lovers lips.	Percy Bysshe Shelley	love, romantic
Zen masters say you cannot see your reflection in running water, only in still water.	Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love	eat, elizabeth-gilbert, love, pray
But whatever However Whenever this ends I want you to know That right now I love you forever	Andrea Gibson, How It Ends	love, tumblr
Find the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse to let them go.	Lauren Oliver, Delirium	delirium, inspirational, lauren-oliver, love, novels, romance
Well, it's simple to love someone," she said. "But it's hard to know when you need to say it out loud.	Rebecca Stead, When You Reach Me	love
Love is not a consequence. Love is not a choice. Love is a thirst. A need as vital to the soul as water is to the body. Love is a precious draught that not only soothes a parched throat, but it vitalizes a man. It fortifies him enough that he is willing to slay dragons for the woman who offers it. Take that draught of love from me and I will shrivel to dust. To take it from a man dying of thirst and give it to another whilst he watches is a cruelty I never thought you capable of.	Colleen Houck	love, romance
You deserve all that and more. It made me happy to see you suffer. I would do it all over again if I could.' I realized I was shaking as the words tumbled out of me. 'I would do it again and again. Every night I would torment you and laugh. Do you understand? You are never safe with me.' I drew a shuddering breath, trying to will away the sting of tears.He opened his eyes and stared up at me as if I were the door out of Arcadia and back to the true sky. 'That's what makes you my favorite.' He reached up and wiped a tear off my cheek with his thumb. 'Every wicked bit of you.	Rosamund Hodge, Cruel Beauty	flaws, honesty, love
I want to try with someone who loves me enough to try with me. I want to grow old looking at the same face every morning. I want to grow old looking at the same face every night at the dinner table. I want to be one of those old couples you see still holding hands and laughing after fifty years of marriage. That's what I want. I want to be someone's forever.	Rachel Gibson, The Trouble With Valentine's Day	forever, hea, love, marriage, romance
I make love with a focus and intensity that most people reserve for sleep.	Dark Jar Tin Zoo, Love Quotes for the Ages. Specifically Ages 19-91.	focus, funny, humor, intense, intensity, love, make-love, men, not-romantic, relationships, reserve, romance, romantic, sex, sleep, sleeping, women, word-junkies
I love being in love, but I also love other things, like not being jealous, overly sensitive, or needy.	Dark Jar Tin Zoo, Love Quotes for the Ages. Specifically Ages 19-91.	funny, humor, jealous, jealousy, love, sensitive, word-junkies
Our love was a two-person game. At least until one of us died, and the other became a murderer.	Dark Jar Tin Zoo, Love Quotes for the Ages. Specifically Ages 19-91.	death, funny, game, humor, life, love, murder, relationships, word-junkies
It didn't make you noble to step away from something that wasn't working, even if you thought you were the reason for the malfunction. Especially then. It just made you a quitter. Because if you were the problem, chances were you could also be the solution. The only way to find out was to take another shot.	Sarah Dessen, Along for the Ride	giving-your-best, leave, life, love, malfunction, noble, problem, quitter, reason, solution, step-away, working-it-out
Sometimes I get real lonely sleeping with you.	Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase	loneliness, love, relationships, sex
Love is the will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth... Love is as love does. Love is an act of will -- namely, both an intention and an action. Will also implies choice. We do not have to love. We choose to love.	M. Scott Peck	choice, emotion, feeling, insightful, love
Westley: This is true love — you think this happens every day?	William Goldman, The Princess Bride	humor, love
I say, “In the contract we said we wouldn’t break each other’s hearts. What if we do it again?” Fiercely he says, “What if we do? If we’re so guarded, it’s not going to be anything. Let’s do it fucking for real, Lara Jean. Let’s go all in. No more contract. No more safety net. You can break my heart. Do whatever you want with it.	Jenny Han, P.S. I Still Love You	love
I don't understand dating.. and the other things that people do.. all I know is that you ought to find the one you recognize. The one who gives you four arms, four legs, four eyes, and has the other half of your heart. There's only one of those, so what are all the other things for? Like dating?	C. JoyBell C.	dating, inspirational, inspirational-love, inspirational-quotes, life, living, love, relationships, true-love
Sometimes the one who is running from the Life/Death/Life nature insists on thinking of love as a boon only. Yet love in its fullest form is a series of deaths and rebirths. We let go of one phase, one aspect of love, and enter another. Passion dies and is brought back. Pain is chased away and surfaces another time. To love means to embrace and at the same time to withstand many endings, and many many beginnings- all in the same relationship.	Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype	love, relationships
Vulnerability is the birthplace of love, belonging, joy, courage, empathy, and creativity. It is the source of hope, empathy, accountability, and authenticity. If we want greater clarity in our purpose or deeper and more meaningful spiritual lives, vulnerability is the path.	Brené Brown, Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead	accountability, authenticity, belonging, courage, creativity, empathy, joy, love, meaning, purpose, spirituality, vulnerability
Nothing had changed. I was the stupid one again. I was the girl who never understood who she was to people.	Carol Rifka Brunt, Tell the Wolves I'm Home	love, unrequited-love
One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, and compassion	Simone de Beauvoir	friendship, love, philosophy, women
Don't be reckless with other people's hearts. Don't put up with people who are reckless with yours.	Jimi Hendrix	love
I’ve become skeptical of the unwritten rule that just because a boy and girl appear in the same feature, a romance must ensue. Rather, I want to portray a slightly different relationship, one where the two mutually inspire each other to live - if I’m able to, then perhaps I’ll be closer to portraying a true expression of love.	Hayao Miyazaki	friendship, love, romance
He’s dozed off again, but I kiss him awake, which seems to startle him. Then he smiles as if he’d be happy to lie there gazing at me forever.	Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games	forever, gaze, happy, hunger-games, kiss, love, smile
We shouldn't teach great books we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement.	B.F. Skinner	achievement, great, love, reading, teach, trivial
I'm not frightened. I'm not frightened of anything. The more I suffer, the more I love. Danger will only increase my love. It will sharpen it, forgive its vice. I will be the only angel you need. You will leave life even more beautiful than you entered it. Heaven will take you back and look at you and say: Only one thing can make a soul complete and that thing is love.	Bernhard Schlink, The Reader	love, philosophy
He must love you very much,' Gavril said once I had my footing.I couldn't look at him. 'What makes you say that?' Gavril sighed. 'I've known Maxon since he was a child. He's never stood up to his father like that.	Kiera Cass, The Elite	america, gavril, love, maxon
Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.	C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain	forgiveness, love
Love is a drama of contradictions.	Franz Kafka	love
Often men who have been emotionally neglected and abused as children by dominating mothers bond with assertive women, only to have their childhood feelings of being engulfed surface. While they could not 'smash their mommy' and still receive love, they find that they can engage in intimate violence with partners who respond to their acting out by trying harder to connect with them emotionally, hoping that the love offered in the present will heal the wounds of the past. If only one party in the relationship is working to create love, to create the space of emotional connection, the dominator model remains in place and the relationship just becomes a site for continuous power struggle.	bell hooks	abuse, equality, love, men, power, relationships, women
The problem, of course, was that [he] saw the world in black and white. And he got to decide what was black and what was white. You can't love a person who lives that way without fearing him too. Maybe even hating him a little.	Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner	fear, life, love
Then she did something so unexpected Nico would later think he dreamed it. She walked up to Nico, who was standing to one side in the shadows, as usual. She grabbed his hand and pulled him gently into the firelight. ‘We had one home,’ she said. ‘Now we have two.’ She gave Nico a big hug and the crowd roared with approval. For once, Nico didn’t feel like pulling away. He buried his face in Reyna’s shoulder and blinked the tears out of his eyes.	Rick Riordan, The Blood of Olympus	family, love, nico-di-angelo, reyna
Friendship often ends in love. But love in friendship never.	Charles Caleb Colton	friendship, love
I told him I was going to betray you, and betray Lyra, and he believed me because I was corrupt and full of wickedness; he looked so deep I felt sure he'd see the truth. But I lied too well. I was lying with every nerve and fiber and everything I'd ever done...I wanted him to find no good in me, and he didn't. There is none.	Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass	evil, good, lies, love, mrs-coulter, truth
When I first met you, that's what I remember. I looked up at the sky and thought, I'm going to love this person because even the sky looks different.	Margaret Stohl, Beautiful Chaos	ethan-lena, love
I am surprised how difficult for people is to say "I love you". They only say the three magic words when they are sure they will hear "I love you too" back. C'mon! Spread the energy of love without expecting anything! Cowards are incapable of expressing love; it is the prerogative of the brave	Paulo Coelho	love
Perhaps all romance is like that not a contract between equal parties but an explosion of dreams and desires that can find no outlet in everyday life. Only a drama will do and while the fireworks last the sky is a different colour.	Jeanette Winterson, The Passion	love, passion
It often occurs that pride and selfishness are muddled with strength and independence. They are neither equal nor similar; in fact, they are polar opposites. A coward may be so cowardly that he masks his weakness with some false personification of power. He is afraid to love and to be loved because love tends to strip bare all emotional barricades. Without love, strength and independence are prone to losing every bit of their worth; they become nothing more than a fearful, intimidated, empty tent lost somewhere in the desert of self.	Criss Jami, Killosophy	bare, barricade, camping, coward, desert, ego, empty, false, fearful, human-nature, humans, independence, intimidated, love, mask, nature, personification, philosophy, pride, self, strength, tent, weakness, worth
Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.	Paulo Coelho, Aleph	love
She’s kept her love for him as alive as the summer they first met. In order to do this, she’s turned life away. Sometimes she subsists for days on water and air. Being the only known complex life-form to do this, she should have a species named after her. Once Uncle Julian told me how the sculptor and painter Alberto Giacometti said that sometimes just to paint a head you have to give up the whole figure. To paint a leaf, you have to sacrifice the whole landscape. It might seem like you’re limiting yourself at first, but after a while you realize that having a quarter-of-an-inch of something you have a better chance of holding on to a certain feeling of the universe than if you pretended to be doing the whole sky.My mother did not choose a leaf or a head. She chose my father. And to hold on to a certain feeling, she sacrificed the world.	Nicole Krauss, The History of Love	feeling, loss, love, sadness
You dumb-ass," I crooned, kissing her on the forehead. "You don't share me. You own me.	Gayle Forman, Where She Went	love, where-she-went
Every friendship travels at sometime through the black valley of despair. This tests every aspect of your affection. You lose the attraction and the magic. Your sense of each other darkens and your presence is sore. If you can come through this time, it can purify with your love, and falsity and need will fall away. It will bring you onto new ground where affection can grow again.	John O'Donohue, Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom	friendship, love
Haven't I? - he thought. Haven't I thought of it since the first time I saw you? Haven't I thought of nothing else for two years? ...He sat motionless, looking at her. He heard the words he had never allowed himself to form, the words he had felt, known, yet had not faced, had hoped to destroy by never letting them be said within his own mind. Now it was as sudden and shocking as if he were saying it to her ...Since the first time I saw you ...Nothing but your body, that mouth of yours, and the way your eyes would look at me, if ...Through every sentence I ever said to you, through every conference you thought so safe, through the importance of all the issues we discussed ...You trusted me, didn't you? To recognize your greatness? To think of you as you deserved - as if you were a man? ...Don't you suppose I know how much I've betrayed? The only bright encounter of my life - the only person I respected - the best business man I know - my ally - my partner in a desperate battle ...The lowest of all desires - as my answer to the highest I've met ...Do you know what I am? I thought of it, because it should have been unthinkable. For that degrading need, which would never touch you, I have never wanted anyone but you ...I hadn't known what it was like, to want it, until I saw you for the first time. I had thought : Not I, I couldn't be broken by it ...Since then ...For two years ...With not a moments respite ...Do you know what it's like, to want it? Would you wish to hear what I thought when I looked at you ...When I lay awake at night ...When I hear your voice over a telephone wire ...When I worked, but could not drive it away? ...To bring you down to things you cant conceive - and to know that it's I who have done it. To reduce you to a body, to teach you an animal's pleasure, to see you need it, to see you asking me for it, to see your wonderful spirit dependent on the upon the obscenity of your need. To watch you as you are, as you face the world with your clean, proud strength - then to see you, in my bed, submitting to any infamous whim I may devise, to any act which I'll preform for the sole purpose of watching your dishonor and to which you'll submit for the sake of an unspeakable sensation ...I want you - and may I be damned for it!	Ayn Rand	love, passion, sex
You’re in my every breath and every thought, intertwined so deep inside me that love’s not a strong enough word—you have my devotion, your name branded on my soul, my wolf yours to command. A hundred years? It’ll never be enough. I want eternity.	Nalini Singh, Kiss of Snow	eternity, kiss-of-snow, love, nalini-singh
The thing with your heart's desire is that your heart doesn't even know what it desires until it turns up.	Daniel Handler, Why We Broke Up	love
and when love came to us twice and lied to us twice we decided to never love again that was fair fair to us and fair to love itself. we ask for no mercy or no miracles; we are strong enough to live and to die and to kill flies, attend the boxing matches, go to the racetrack, live on luck and skill, get alone, get alone often, and if you can't sleep alone be careful of the words you speak in your sleep; and ask for no mercy no miracles; and don't forget: time is meant to be wasted, love failsand death is useless.	Charles Bukowski, What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire	love
Her heart had grown so familiar to the pain of life without him, that to respond now seemed too large a pleasure she could not endure. If pain was love, then she loved fiercely. Yet knew she could not be near that boy again.	Coco J. Ginger	breakup, jamie-weise, love, missing-you, passionate-living, romance
She held up her calloused, grimy fingers. Leo couldn't help thinking there was nothing hotter than a girl who didn't mind getting her hands dirty. But of course, that was just a general comment. Didn't apply to Calypso. Obviously.	Rick Riordan, The House of Hades	calypso, funny, humor, leo-valdez, love
Age has no reality except in the physical world. The essence of a human being is resistant to the passage of time. Our inner lives are eternal, which is to say that our spirits remain as youthful and vigorous as when we were in full bloom. Think of love as a state of grace, not the means to anything, but the alpha and omega. An end in itself.	Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera	ageing, aging, love, spirit
You forget all of it anyway. First, you forget everything you learned-the dates of the Hay-Herran Treaty and Pythagorean Theorem. You especially forget everything you didn't really learn, but just memorized the night before. You forget the names of all but one or two of your teachers, and eventually you'll forget those, too. You forget your junior class schedule and where you used to sit and your best friend's home phone number and the lyrics to that song you must have played a million times. For me, it was something by Simon & Garfunkel. Who knows what it will be for you? And eventually, but slowly, oh so slowly, you forget your humiliations-even the ones that seemed indelible just fade away. You forget who was cool and who was not, who was pretty, smart, athletic, and not. Who went to a good college. Who threw the best parties Who could get you pot. You forget all of them. Even the ones you said you loved, and even the ones you actually did. They're the last to go. And then once you've forgotten enough, you love someone else.	Gabrielle Zevin, Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac	forget, life, love
Real friendship or love is not manufactured or achieved by an act of will or intention. Friendship is always an act of recognition.	John O'Donohue, Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom	friendship, love
When you need to be loved, you take love wherever you can find it. When you are desperate to be loved, feel love, know love, you seek out what you think love should look like. When you find love, or what you think love is, you will lie, kill, and steal to keep it. But learning about real love comes from within. It cannot be given. It cannot be taken away. It grows from your ability to re-create within yourself, the essence of loving experiences you have had in your life.	Iyanla Vanzant	love
Americans... are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It must have something to do with the vanished frontier.	Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Cat's Cradle	americans, frontier, love
He smiles at me, and I am suddenly seventeen again - the year I realize that love doesn't follow the rules, the year I understood that nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable	Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper	first-love, love, rules, unattainable

Love...no such thing.Whatever it is that binds families and married couples together, that's not love. That's stupidity or selfishness or fear. Love doesn't exist. Self interest exists, attachment based on personal gain exists, complacency exists. But not love. Love has to be reinvented, that’s certain.

Arthur Rimbaud, A Season in Hell/The Drunken Boat

love

I've been saying it so long to you, you just wouldn't listen. Every time you said 'Farm Boy do this' you thought I was answering 'As you wish' but that's only because you were hearing wrong. 'I love you' was what it was, but you never heard.

William Goldman, The Princess Bride

codes, devotion, ignorance, love

These pictures are my heart. And if my heart was a canvas, every square inch of it would be painted over with you.

Cassandra Clare, Lady Midnight

emma-carstairs, julian-blackthorn, lady-midnight, love

Let me tell ya. You gotta pay attention to signs. When life reaches out with a moment like this it's a sin if you don't reach back... I'm telling you.

Matthew Quick, The Silver Linings Playbook

chance, love, opportunity

True friends are those who came into your life, saw the most negative part of you, but are not ready to leave you, no matter how contagious you are to them.

Michael Bassey Johnson, The Infinity Sign

acceptance, affection, friendship, love, loyalty, power-of-love, secrets, true-friends, true-love, trust

Love is not blind that is the last thing that it is. Love is bound and the more it is bound the less it is blind.

G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

love

Their fingers seemed to fit together in just the right way- effortlessly clasped,like perfect complements.

Nicholas Sparks

love

Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.

Bertrand Russell

amity, companionship, life, love

He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.

Leo Tolstoy

closeness, love, soul-mate

But, my God, it's so beautiful when the boy smiles

Anna Nalick

boyfriend, love, missing-you, romance, smile, song-lyrics

I love you with everything I am, everything I've been, and everything I hope to be. I love you with my past, and I love you for my future. I love you for the children we'll have and for the years we'll have together. I love you for every one of my smiles and even more, for every one of your smiles.

Julia Quinn, Romancing Mister Bridgerton

adoration, colin-bridgerton, love

There are so many men, all endlessly attempting to sweep me off my feet. And there is one of you, trying just the opposite. Making sure my feet are firm beneath me, lest I fall.

Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

empathy, freedom, friendship, love, men, respect, women

And maybe that was love. Being so vulnerable and allowing someone else in so far they could hurt you, but they also give you everything.

Christine Feehan, Water Bound

hurt, love, vulnerability

You can never be wise and be in love at the same time.

Bob Dylan

bob-dylan, love

I close my eyes, thinking that there is nothing like an embrace after an absence, nothing like fitting my face into the curve of his shoulder and filling my lungs with the scent of him.

Jodi Picoult, Keeping Faith

love, reunion

There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul.

Edith Wharton

friendship, love, meaning, soul, soul-mate

It's not enough to believe! Don't you see that, you stupid girl? You could spend your whole life hoping and believing! If a love affair is one-sided, then it's only ever a question, never an answer. You can't live your life waiting for an answer.

Sophie Kinsella, Twenties Girl

love

I love you, Marks. My heart is completely and utterly yours. And unfortunately for you, the rest of me comes with it.

Lisa Kleypas, Married By Morning

hathaway, lisa-kleypas, love

I am no king, and I am no lord,And I am no soldier at-arms," said he."I'm none but a harper, and a very poor harper,That am come hither to wed with ye.""If you were a lord, you should be my lord,And the same if you were a thief," said she."And if you are a harper, you shall be my harper,For it makes no matter to me, to me,For it makes no matter to me.""But what if it prove that I am no harper?That I lied for your love most monstrously?""Why, then I'll teach you to play and sing,For I dearly love a good harp," said she.

Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn

ending, humor, inspirational, love, lyrics, poe

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

genius, love

Depression is the flaw in love. To be creatures who love, we must be creatures who can despair at what we lose, and depression is the mechanism of that despair.

Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

depression, despair, loss, love

Love: the sickest of Irony’s sick jokes. The place where logic and order go to die.

Christopher Moore, Coyote Blue

love

A: The soul wanders in the dark, until it finds love. And so, wherever our love goes, there we find our soul.Q: It always happens?A: If we're lucky. And if we let ourselves be blind. Q: Instead of watching out?A: Instead of always watching out.

Mary Zimmerman, Metamorphoses

completion, love

That was the only time, as I stood there, looking at that strange rubbish, feeling the wind coming across those empty fields, that I started to imagine just a little fantasy thing, because this was Norfolk after all, and it was only a couple of weeks since I’d lost him. I was thinking about the rubbish, the flapping plastic in the branches, the shore-line of odd stuff caught along the fencing, and I half-closed my eyes and imagined this was the spot where everything I'd ever lost since my childhood had washed up, and I was now standing here in front of it, and if I waited long enough, a tiny figure would appear on the horizon across the field, and gradually get larger until I'd see it was Tommy, and he'd wave, maybe even call. The fantasy never got beyond that --I didn't let it-- and though the tears rolled down my face, I wasn't sobbing or out of control. I just waited a bit, then turned back to the car, to drive off to wherever it was I was supposed to be.

Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

loss, love, moving-on

You have made a place in my heart where I thought there was no room for anything else. You have made flowers grow where I cultivated dust and stones. Remember this, on this journey you insist on making. If you die, I will not survive you long.

Robert Jordan, The Shadow Rising

love

Jealous?""Maybe.""No reason. I like my ladies with a pulse.

Rachel Caine, Feast of Fools

love, vampires

But no matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it. You have ot believe in love stories and prince charmings and happily ever after. That's why I write these songs. Because I think love is FEARLESS.

Taylor Swift

fearless, love

I’m a fake fact factory. The things I make are the things I make up. Also, as a side business, I make love. Actually, I just made that up.

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

business, fact, factory, facts, funny, humor, life, love, word-junkies

Love simply is.

Paulo Coelho, The Witch Of Portobello

love

Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy.

Warren W. Wiersbe

diplomacy, hypocrisy, love, tact, truth, truth-telling

...the opposite of love is not hate -- it's apathy. It's not giving a damn. If somebody hates me, they must "feel" something ... or they couldn't possibly hate. Therefore, there's some way in which I can get to them.

Leo Buscaglia

apathy, hatred, love, relationships

Can't you just like a girl who likes you back?''None of them likes me back. I may as well like the one I really want.

Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

crush, high-school, humor, love

I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can't love and do nothing.

Graham Greene, The End of the Affair

infatuation, love

All the problem of women, starts with men. All the problem of men, ends with women.

Santosh Kalwar, Quote Me Everyday

inspirational, love, men, problem, women

No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?

Albert Einstein

chemistry, first-love, love, physics

She was bendable light: she shone around every corner of my day.

Jerry Spinelli, Stargirl

light, love

What's your heart telling you to do?I don't know.'Maybe, you're trying too hard to hear it.

Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember

love, mother, son

But hurry, let's entwine ourselves as one, our mouth broken, our soul bitten by love, so time discovers us safely destroyed.

Federico García Lorca

bitten, broken, destroyed, entwine, federico-garcia-lorca, love, mouth, sonnet-of-the-garland-of-roses, soul

I never lie," I said offhand. "At least not to those I don't love.

Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat

compassion, deciet, hate, interview-with-the-vampire, lestat, lie, lies, love, lovers, lying, secret, secrets, truth, vampire, vampires

Love, like everything else in life, should be a discovery, an adventure, and like most adventures, you don’t know you’re having one until you’re right in the middle of it.

E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

adventure, adventures, adventures-in-love, catholic-author, discovery, experiences, first-love, life, life-changing, life-experience, life-lesson, love, romance, romantic, self-discovery, true-love

But why, why, why can't people just say what they mean?

Graeme Simsion, The Rosie Project

confusion, love, relationships, the-rosie-project

Nothing else wounds so deeply and irreparably. Nothing else robs us of hope so much as being unloved by one we love

Clive Barker

abarat, absolute-midnight, clive-barker, hate, hurt, love, wounds

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Friedrich Nietzsche

love

In fairy tales, the princesses kiss the frogs, and the frogs become princes. In real life, the pricesses kiss princes, and the princes turn into frogs.

Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

life, love

It seems to me now that the plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone you don't need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone.

Nick Hornby, How to Be Good

heroin, humanity, love, poetry

Love is not finding someone to live with. It's finding someone you can't live without.

Rafael Ortiz

love

Soul meets soul on lovers lips.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

love, romantic

Zen masters say you cannot see your reflection in running water, only in still water.

Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

eat, elizabeth-gilbert, love, pray

But whatever However Whenever this ends I want you to know That right now I love you forever

Andrea Gibson, How It Ends

love, tumblr

Find the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse to let them go.

Lauren Oliver, Delirium

delirium, inspirational, lauren-oliver, love, novels, romance

Well, it's simple to love someone," she said. "But it's hard to know when you need to say it out loud.

Rebecca Stead, When You Reach Me

love

Love is not a consequence. Love is not a choice. Love is a thirst. A need as vital to the soul as water is to the body. Love is a precious draught that not only soothes a parched throat, but it vitalizes a man. It fortifies him enough that he is willing to slay dragons for the woman who offers it. Take that draught of love from me and I will shrivel to dust. To take it from a man dying of thirst and give it to another whilst he watches is a cruelty I never thought you capable of.

Colleen Houck

love, romance

You deserve all that and more. It made me happy to see you suffer. I would do it all over again if I could.' I realized I was shaking as the words tumbled out of me. 'I would do it again and again. Every night I would torment you and laugh. Do you understand? You are never safe with me.' I drew a shuddering breath, trying to will away the sting of tears.He opened his eyes and stared up at me as if I were the door out of Arcadia and back to the true sky. 'That's what makes you my favorite.' He reached up and wiped a tear off my cheek with his thumb. 'Every wicked bit of you.

Rosamund Hodge, Cruel Beauty

flaws, honesty, love

I want to try with someone who loves me enough to try with me. I want to grow old looking at the same face every morning. I want to grow old looking at the same face every night at the dinner table. I want to be one of those old couples you see still holding hands and laughing after fifty years of marriage. That's what I want. I want to be someone's forever.

Rachel Gibson, The Trouble With Valentine's Day

forever, hea, love, marriage, romance

I make love with a focus and intensity that most people reserve for sleep.

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

focus, funny, humor, intense, intensity, love, make-love, men, not-romantic, relationships, reserve, romance, romantic, sex, sleep, sleeping, women, word-junkies

I love being in love, but I also love other things, like not being jealous, overly sensitive, or needy. 

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

funny, humor, jealous, jealousy, love, sensitive, word-junkies

Our love was a two-person game. At least until one of us died, and the other became a murderer. 

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

death, funny, game, humor, life, love, murder, relationships, word-junkies

It didn't make you noble to step away from something that wasn't working, even if you thought you were the reason for the malfunction. Especially then. It just made you a quitter. Because if you were the problem, chances were you could also be the solution. The only way to find out was to take another shot.

Sarah Dessen, Along for the Ride

giving-your-best, leave, life, love, malfunction, noble, problem, quitter, reason, solution, step-away, working-it-out

Sometimes I get real lonely sleeping with you.

Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase

loneliness, love, relationships, sex

Love is the will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth... Love is as love does. Love is an act of will -- namely, both an intention and an action. Will also implies choice. We do not have to love. We choose to love.

M. Scott Peck

choice, emotion, feeling, insightful, love

Westley: This is true love — you think this happens every day?

William Goldman, The Princess Bride

humor, love

I say, “In the contract we said we wouldn’t break each other’s hearts. What if we do it again?” Fiercely he says, “What if we do? If we’re so guarded, it’s not going to be anything. Let’s do it fucking for real, Lara Jean. Let’s go all in. No more contract. No more safety net. You can break my heart. Do whatever you want with it.

Jenny Han, P.S. I Still Love You

love

I don't understand dating.. and the other things that people do.. all I know is that you ought to find the one you recognize. The one who gives you four arms, four legs, four eyes, and has the other half of your heart. There's only one of those, so what are all the other things for? Like dating?

C. JoyBell C.

dating, inspirational, inspirational-love, inspirational-quotes, life, living, love, relationships, true-love

Sometimes the one who is running from the Life/Death/Life nature insists on thinking of love as a boon only. Yet love in its fullest form is a series of deaths and rebirths. We let go of one phase, one aspect of love, and enter another. Passion dies and is brought back. Pain is chased away and surfaces another time. To love means to embrace and at the same time to withstand many endings, and many many beginnings- all in the same relationship.

Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype

love, relationships

Vulnerability is the birthplace of love, belonging, joy, courage, empathy, and creativity. It is the source of hope, empathy, accountability, and authenticity. If we want greater clarity in our purpose or deeper and more meaningful spiritual lives, vulnerability is the path.

Brené Brown, Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

accountability, authenticity, belonging, courage, creativity, empathy, joy, love, meaning, purpose, spirituality, vulnerability

Nothing had changed. I was the stupid one again. I was the girl who never understood who she was to people.

Carol Rifka Brunt, Tell the Wolves I'm Home

love, unrequited-love

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, and compassion

Simone de Beauvoir

friendship, love, philosophy, women

Don't be reckless with other people's hearts. Don't put up with people who are reckless with yours.

Jimi Hendrix

love

I’ve become skeptical of the unwritten rule that just because a boy and girl appear in the same feature, a romance must ensue. Rather, I want to portray a slightly different relationship, one where the two mutually inspire each other to live - if I’m able to, then perhaps I’ll be closer to portraying a true expression of love.

Hayao Miyazaki

friendship, love, romance

He’s dozed off again, but I kiss him awake, which seems to startle him. Then he smiles as if he’d be happy to lie there gazing at me forever.

Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

forever, gaze, happy, hunger-games, kiss, love, smile

We shouldn't teach great books we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement.

B.F. Skinner

achievement, great, love, reading, teach, trivial

I'm not frightened. I'm not frightened of anything. The more I suffer, the more I love. Danger will only increase my love. It will sharpen it, forgive its vice. I will be the only angel you need. You will leave life even more beautiful than you entered it. Heaven will take you back and look at you and say: Only one thing can make a soul complete and that thing is love.

Bernhard Schlink, The Reader

love, philosophy

He must love you very much,' Gavril said once I had my footing.I couldn't look at him. 'What makes you say that?' Gavril sighed. 'I've known Maxon since he was a child. He's never stood up to his father like that.

Kiera Cass, The Elite

america, gavril, love, maxon

Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.

C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

forgiveness, love

Love is a drama of contradictions.

Franz Kafka

love

Often men who have been emotionally neglected and abused as children by dominating mothers bond with assertive women, only to have their childhood feelings of being engulfed surface. While they could not 'smash their mommy' and still receive love, they find that they can engage in intimate violence with partners who respond to their acting out by trying harder to connect with them emotionally, hoping that the love offered in the present will heal the wounds of the past. If only one party in the relationship is working to create love, to create the space of emotional connection, the dominator model remains in place and the relationship just becomes a site for continuous power struggle.

bell hooks

abuse, equality, love, men, power, relationships, women

The problem, of course, was that [he] saw the world in black and white. And he got to decide what was black and what was white. You can't love a person who lives that way without fearing him too. Maybe even hating him a little.

Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

fear, life, love

Then she did something so unexpected Nico would later think he dreamed it. She walked up to Nico, who was standing to one side in the shadows, as usual. She grabbed his hand and pulled him gently into the firelight. ‘We had one home,’ she said. ‘Now we have two.’ She gave Nico a big hug and the crowd roared with approval. For once, Nico didn’t feel like pulling away. He buried his face in Reyna’s shoulder and blinked the tears out of his eyes.

Rick Riordan, The Blood of Olympus

family, love, nico-di-angelo, reyna

Friendship often ends in love. But love in friendship never.

Charles Caleb Colton

friendship, love

I told him I was going to betray you, and betray Lyra, and he believed me because I was corrupt and full of wickedness; he looked so deep I felt sure he'd see the truth. But I lied too well. I was lying with every nerve and fiber and everything I'd ever done...I wanted him to find no good in me, and he didn't. There is none.

Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass

evil, good, lies, love, mrs-coulter, truth

When I first met you, that's what I remember. I looked up at the sky and thought, I'm going to love this person because even the sky looks different.

Margaret Stohl, Beautiful Chaos

ethan-lena, love

I am surprised how difficult for people is to say "I love you". They only say the three magic words when they are sure they will hear "I love you too" back. C'mon! Spread the energy of love without expecting anything! Cowards are incapable of expressing love; it is the prerogative of the brave

Paulo Coelho

love

Perhaps all romance is like that not a contract between equal parties but an explosion of dreams and desires that can find no outlet in everyday life. Only a drama will do and while the fireworks last the sky is a different colour.

Jeanette Winterson, The Passion

love, passion

It often occurs that pride and selfishness are muddled with strength and independence. They are neither equal nor similar; in fact, they are polar opposites. A coward may be so cowardly that he masks his weakness with some false personification of power. He is afraid to love and to be loved because love tends to strip bare all emotional barricades. Without love, strength and independence are prone to losing every bit of their worth; they become nothing more than a fearful, intimidated, empty tent lost somewhere in the desert of self.

Criss Jami, Killosophy

bare, barricade, camping, coward, desert, ego, empty, false, fearful, human-nature, humans, independence, intimidated, love, mask, nature, personification, philosophy, pride, self, strength, tent, weakness, worth

Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.

Paulo Coelho, Aleph

love

She’s kept her love for him as alive as the summer they first met. In order to do this, she’s turned life away. Sometimes she subsists for days on water and air. Being the only known complex life-form to do this, she should have a species named after her. Once Uncle Julian told me how the sculptor and painter Alberto Giacometti said that sometimes just to paint a head you have to give up the whole figure. To paint a leaf, you have to sacrifice the whole landscape. It might seem like you’re limiting yourself at first, but after a while you realize that having a quarter-of-an-inch of something you have a better chance of holding on to a certain feeling of the universe than if you pretended to be doing the whole sky.My mother did not choose a leaf or a head. She chose my father. And to hold on to a certain feeling, she sacrificed the world.

Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

feeling, loss, love, sadness

You dumb-ass," I crooned, kissing her on the forehead. "You don't share me. You own me.

Gayle Forman, Where She Went

love, where-she-went

Every friendship travels at sometime through the black valley of despair. This tests every aspect of your affection. You lose the attraction and the magic. Your sense of each other darkens and your presence is sore. If you can come through this time, it can purify with your love, and falsity and need will fall away. It will bring you onto new ground where affection can grow again.

John O'Donohue, Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom

friendship, love

Haven't I? - he thought. Haven't I thought of it since the first time I saw you? Haven't I thought of nothing else for two years? ...He sat motionless, looking at her. He heard the words he had never allowed himself to form, the words he had felt, known, yet had not faced, had hoped to destroy by never letting them be said within his own mind. Now it was as sudden and shocking as if he were saying it to her ...Since the first time I saw you ...Nothing but your body, that mouth of yours, and the way your eyes would look at me, if ...Through every sentence I ever said to you, through every conference you thought so safe, through the importance of all the issues we discussed ...You trusted me, didn't you? To recognize your greatness? To think of you as you deserved - as if you were a man? ...Don't you suppose I know how much I've betrayed? The only bright encounter of my life - the only person I respected - the best business man I know - my ally - my partner in a desperate battle ...The lowest of all desires - as my answer to the highest I've met ...Do you know what I am? I thought of it, because it should have been unthinkable. For that degrading need, which would never touch you, I have never wanted anyone but you ...I hadn't known what it was like, to want it, until I saw you for the first time. I had thought : Not I, I couldn't be broken by it ...Since then ...For two years ...With not a moments respite ...Do you know what it's like, to want it? Would you wish to hear what I thought when I looked at you ...When I lay awake at night ...When I hear your voice over a telephone wire ...When I worked, but could not drive it away? ...To bring you down to things you cant conceive - and to know that it's I who have done it. To reduce you to a body, to teach you an animal's pleasure, to see you need it, to see you asking me for it, to see your wonderful spirit dependent on the upon the obscenity of your need. To watch you as you are, as you face the world with your clean, proud strength - then to see you, in my bed, submitting to any infamous whim I may devise, to any act which I'll preform for the sole purpose of watching your dishonor and to which you'll submit for the sake of an unspeakable sensation ...I want you - and may I be damned for it!

Ayn Rand

love, passion, sex

You’re in my every breath and every thought, intertwined so deep inside me that love’s not a strong enough word—you have my devotion, your name branded on my soul, my wolf yours to command. A hundred years? It’ll never be enough. I want eternity.

Nalini Singh, Kiss of Snow

eternity, kiss-of-snow, love, nalini-singh

The thing with your heart's desire is that your heart doesn't even know what it desires until it turns up.

Daniel Handler, Why We Broke Up

love

and when love came to us twice and lied to us twice we decided to never love again that was fair fair to us and fair to love itself. we ask for no mercy or no miracles; we are strong enough to live and to die and to kill flies, attend the boxing matches, go to the racetrack, live on luck and skill, get alone, get alone often, and if you can't sleep alone be careful of the words you speak in your sleep; and ask for no mercy no miracles; and don't forget: time is meant to be wasted, love failsand death is useless.

Charles Bukowski, What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire

love

Her heart had grown so familiar to the pain of life without him, that to respond now seemed too large a pleasure she could not endure. If pain was love, then she loved fiercely. Yet knew she could not be near that boy again.

Coco J. Ginger

breakup, jamie-weise, love, missing-you, passionate-living, romance

She held up her calloused, grimy fingers. Leo couldn't help thinking there was nothing hotter than a girl who didn't mind getting her hands dirty. But of course, that was just a general comment. Didn't apply to Calypso. Obviously.

Rick Riordan, The House of Hades

calypso, funny, humor, leo-valdez, love

Age has no reality except in the physical world. The essence of a human being is resistant to the passage of time. Our inner lives are eternal, which is to say that our spirits remain as youthful and vigorous as when we were in full bloom. Think of love as a state of grace, not the means to anything, but the alpha and omega. An end in itself.

Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

ageing, aging, love, spirit

You forget all of it anyway. First, you forget everything you learned-the dates of the Hay-Herran Treaty and Pythagorean Theorem. You especially forget everything you didn't really learn, but just memorized the night before. You forget the names of all but one or two of your teachers, and eventually you'll forget those, too. You forget your junior class schedule and where you used to sit and your best friend's home phone number and the lyrics to that song you must have played a million times. For me, it was something by Simon & Garfunkel. Who knows what it will be for you? And eventually, but slowly, oh so slowly, you forget your humiliations-even the ones that seemed indelible just fade away. You forget who was cool and who was not, who was pretty, smart, athletic, and not. Who went to a good college. Who threw the best parties Who could get you pot. You forget all of them. Even the ones you said you loved, and even the ones you actually did. They're the last to go. And then once you've forgotten enough, you love someone else.

Gabrielle Zevin, Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

forget, life, love

Real friendship or love is not manufactured or achieved by an act of will or intention. Friendship is always an act of recognition.

John O'Donohue, Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom

friendship, love

When you need to be loved, you take love wherever you can find it. When you are desperate to be loved, feel love, know love, you seek out what you think love should look like. When you find love, or what you think love is, you will lie, kill, and steal to keep it. But learning about real love comes from within. It cannot be given. It cannot be taken away. It grows from your ability to re-create within yourself, the essence of loving experiences you have had in your life.

Iyanla Vanzant

love

Americans... are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It must have something to do with the vanished frontier.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Cat's Cradle

americans, frontier, love

He smiles at me, and I am suddenly seventeen again - the year I realize that love doesn't follow the rules, the year I understood that nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable

Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

first-love, love, rules, unattainable