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Not enough," he said, letting her hair slip through his fingers. "If I kiss you all day, everyday, for the rest of my life, it won't be enough.	Cassandra Clare, City of Lost Souls	clary-fray, jace, kissing, love
The worst thing you can do if you miss or need someone is let them know it.	Sarah Dessen, Lock and Key	love, missing-someone, truth, worst-thing
There are many forms of love and affection, some people can spend their whole lives together without knowing each other's names. Naming is a difficult and time-consuming process; it concerns essences, and it means power. But on the wild nights who can call you home? Only the one who knows your name.	Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit	love
They say: 'If a man knew himself,he would know all mankind.'I say: 'If a man loved mankind,he would know something of himself.	Kahlil Gibran, Love Letters in the Sand: The Love Poems of Khalil Gibran	love
So what I want to know is why it is that I can no longer find you, in my mind. You are still there, just, but you are there like a ghost, a will o' the wisp. Not long ago you burned--your heart burned--in my mind like silver fire. But after that night in the inn it became patchy and dim, and now it is not there at all.""Could it be that the heart that you seek is no longer my own? I have given my heart to another.""The boy? The one in the inn? With the unicorn?""Yes.""You should have let me take it back then, for my sisters and me. We could have been young again, well into the next age of the world. Your boy will break it, or waste it, or lose it. They all do.""Nonetheless, he has my heart. I hope your sisters will not be too hard on you, when you return to them without it.	Neil Gaiman, Stardust	love
Just for future reference, don't use words like "love" anymore. It's a very sensitive word and it wears out quickly. Romeo barely says it, but John Hinckley filled up a whole journal with it. To put it into your terms, it's a currency that's easily devalued. Pretty soon you're saying it whenever you hang up the phone or whenever you leave. It turns into an apology. Then it's an excuse. Some assholes want it to be a bulletproof vest: don't hate me; I love you. But mostly it just means--more. More, more--give me something more. A couple of years from now, when you're on your own completely, if you really fall in love, if it really comes to that--and I pity you if it does--you have to look right down into the black of her eyes, right down into the emptiness in there and feel everything, absolutely everything she needs and you have to be willing to drown in it, Kevin. You'd have to want to be crushed, buried alive. Because that's what real love feels like--choking. They used to bury some women in their wedding dresses, you know. I thought it was because all those husbands were too cheap to spring for another gown, but now it makes sense: love is your first foot in the grave. That's why the second most abused word is "forever".	Peter Craig, Hot Plastic	emptiness, forever, love
Touchstone watched, suddenly conscious that he probably only had five seconds left to be alone with Sabriel, to say something, to say anything. Perhaps the last five seconds they ever would have alone together.I am not afraid, he said to himself."I love you," he whispered. "I hope you don't mind.	Garth Nix, Sabriel	love, sabriel
There are some experiences in life they haven't invented the right words for.	Lisa Kleypas, Married By Morning	love, romance, sorry, wisdom
I think Heaven will be like a first kiss.	Sarah Addison Allen, The Sugar Queen	first-kiss, heaven, kisses, love
Her desires are mine. Her wishes are mine. Should even the world stand against her, my blade will be at her side. And should it fail to protect her, let my own existence be forfeit." - Ash	Julie Kagawa, The Iron Queen	heartfelt, love, sweethearts, vow, vows
The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.	Nat King Cole	eden-ahbez, love
You know that I could as soon forget you as my existence!	Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights	love
Love comes with a knife, not some shy question, and not with fears for its reputation!	Jalaluddin Rumi	love
Love is not primarily a relationship to a specific person; it is an attitude, an ordination of character which determines the relatedness of the person to the whole world as a whole, not toward one object of love	Erich Fromm	fromm, love
I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real sentences. But our innocence goes awfully deep, and our discreditable secret is that we don't know anything at all, and our horrid inner secret is that we don't care that we don't.	Dylan Thomas	companions, earthy, hope, innocence, love, optimism, partnership
In this whole screwed-up town, you're the only thing that's always been right to me," he whispered. "I love you, Claire." She saw something that might have been just a flash of panic go across his expression, but then he steadied again. "I can't believe I'm saying this, but I do. I love you.	Rachel Caine, Lord of Misrule	fear, love
The moment our lips met, I knew with pure and piercing certainty that I would have waited for him forever.	Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone	alina, love
Dexter, I love you so much. So, so much, and I probably always will. I just don't like you anymore. I'm sorry.	David Nicholls, One Day	love, one-day, one-day-david-nicholls, sorry
You can’t leave yet. I’m not finished falling in love with you.	Colleen Hoover, November 9	love
One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy.	Alain de Botton	attraction, health, love, pathology, right, wrong
If we’re going to kiss, it has to be book-worthy.	Colleen Hoover, November 9	kiss, love
You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.	William Faulkner	love
There has to be a moment at the beginning where you wonder whether you’re in love with the person or in love with the feeling of love itself. If the moment doesn’t pass, that’s it—you’re done. And if the moment does pass, it never goes that far. It stands in the distance, ready for whenever you want it back. Sometimes it’s even there when you thought you were searching for something else, like an escape route, or your lovers’ face.	David Levithan, The Lover's Dictionary	love
Deciding whether or not to trust a person is like deciding whether or not to climb a tree because you might get a wonderful view from the highest branch or you might simply get covered in sap and for this reason many people choose to spend their time alone and indoors where it is harder to get a splinter.	Lemony Snicket, The Penultimate Peril	humor, inspirational, love, simile, tree, trust
One word more. You look as if you thought it tainted you to beloved by me. You cannot avoid it. Nay, I, if I would, cannotcleanse you from it. But I would not, if I could. I have neverloved any woman before: my life has been too busy, my thoughtstoo much absorbed with other things. Now I love, and will love.But do not be afraid of too much expression on my part.	Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South	love
It takes great courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it. And even more courage to see it in the one you love	Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband	love
I regret..." Tobias tilts his head, and sighs. "I regret my choice.""What Choice?", and... I felt like maybe I could make something more of my decision."	Veronica Roth, Insurgent	abnegation, dauntless, faction, love, romantic, tobias-eaton, tris-prior
For which of my bad parts didst thou first fall in love with me?	William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing	love
You've got to have someone who loves your body. Who doesn't define you, but sees you. Who loves what he sees. Who you don't have to struggle to be good enough for.	Deb Caletti, The Secret Life of Prince Charming	good-enough, love, seeing, someone, struggle, you
I let myself slip away... Just to stay sane. Just to get through it. And when I felt myself slipping too far, I held on to the one thing I'm always sure of - Blue eyes. Bronze curls. The fact that Simon Snow is the most powerful magician alive. That nothing can hurt him, not even me. That Simon Snow is alive. And I'm hopelessly in love with him.	Rainbow Rowell, Carry On	baz, carry-on, love
Millions of people are suffering: they want to be loved but they don't know how to love. And love cannot exist as a monologue; it is a dialogue, a very harmonious dialogue.	Osho	love
Follow me, reader! Who told you that there is no true, faithful, eternal love in this world! May the liar's vile tongue be cut out! Follow me, my reader, and me alone, and I will show you such a love!	Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita	love
Before I go," he said, and paused -- "I may kiss her?"It was remembered afterwards that when he bent down and touched her face with his lips, he murmured some words. The child, who was nearest to him, told them afterwards, and told her grandchildren when she was a handsome old lady, that she heard him say, "A life you love.	Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities	death, inspirational, love, made-me-cry, nobility, sacrifice
Friendship is selfless love, care, respect, and honor not a profitable opportunity.	Santosh Kalwar	care, friendship, love, opportunity, respect
Think how you love me," she whispered. "I don’t ask you to love me always like this, but I ask you to remember. Somewhere inside me there’ll always be the person I am to-night.	F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night	love
We wanted the freedom to love. We wanted the freedom to choose. Now we have to fight for it.	Lauren Oliver, Requiem	fight, fighting-for-love, freedom, love
Love lasts about seven years. That's how long it takes for the cells of the body to totally replace themselves.	Françoise Sagan	love, relationships
She put one hand on mine. “When someone is in your heart, they’re never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times.	Mitch Albom, For One More Day	heart, love
You had to be willing to fight in order for a love story to last a life time.	Cristina Marrero, The Unsung Love Story	cristina-marrero, cristy-anne, lesbian, lgbtq, love, queer-youth, romance, the-river, the-unsung-love-story
I knew, you would do me good, in some way, at some time;- I saw it in your eyes when I first beheld you: their expression and smile did not- (again he stopped)- did not (he proceeded hastily) strike delight to my very inmost heart so for nothing.	Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre	love, romance
Stains are even worse when you're the only one who can see them.	Gayle Forman, Just One Day	love, stains, willem
If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden.	Claudia Adrienne Grandi	love, missing-you
I have now been married ten years. 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. No woman was ever nearer to her mate than I am: ever more absolutely bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh. I know no weariness of my Edward's society: he knows none of mine, any more than we each do the pulsation of the heart that beats in our separate bosoms; consequently, we are ever together. To be together is for us to be at once free as in solitude, as gay as in company. We talk, I believe, all day long: to talk to each other is but more animated and an audible thinking. All my confidence is bestowed on him, all his confidence is devoted to me; we are precisely suited in character - perfect concord is the result.	Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre	love
People who love themselves, don’t hurt other people. The more we hate ourselves, the more we want others to suffer.	Dan Pearce, Single Dad Laughing	bullies, bullying, hurt, love, people, self-esteem
Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.	H. Jackson Brown Jr.	love
Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.	Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept	love
Love! Love until the night collapses!	Pablo Neruda, Machu Picchu	love
If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.	Michael Jackson	inspirational, life, love, pop, singer, songwriter
Look at me, chica." When she does, I repeat, "Eres hermosa.""What does it mean?""You're beautiful.	Simone Elkeles, Rules of Attraction	beautiful, carlos-fuentes, love, rules-of-attraction, sweet
It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.	Gustave Flaubert, Sentimental Education	love, relationships
I didn't know love could leave the lights on all the time.	Rainbow Rowell, Attachments	love
twice I have lived forever in a smile	E.E. Cummings	cummings, love, poetry, smiling
alone with everybody the flesh covers the bone and they put a mind in there and sometimes a soul,and the women break vases against the walls and them men drink too much and nobody finds the one but they keep looking crawling in and out of beds.flesh covers the bone and the flesh searches for more than flesh.there's no chance at all:we are all trapped by a singular fate.nobody ever finds the one.the city dumps fill the junkyards fill the mad houses fill the hospitals fill the graveyards fill nothing else fills.	Charles Bukowski, Love Is a Dog from Hell	love
Your truest friends are the ones who will stand by you in your darkest moments--because they're willing to brave the shadows with you--and in your greatest moments--because they're not afraid to let you shine.	Nicole Yatsonsky	friends, friendship, love, loyalty, truth
Everyone's a little crazy. Some people just hide it better than others.	Michelle Hodkin, The Retribution of Mara Dyer	love, mara-dyer, retribution-of-mara-dyer, romance
You, of all people, deserve a happy ending. Despite everything that happened to you, you aren't bitter. You aren't cold. You've just retreated a little and been shy, and that's okay. If I were a fairy godmother, I would give you your heart's desire in an istant. And I would wipe away your tears and tell you not to cry.-Rachel to Julia	Sylvain Reynard, Gabriel's Inferno	friendship, happiness, love
Love, whether newly born or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, that it overflows upon the outward world.	Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter	love
He looks at her and smiles. "You're sort of dangerous, you know?" She stares at him. "Me?" "Yeah," he says sitting back. "I'm way too honest with you.	Jennifer E. Smith, The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight	connection, love
When I asked my da how ye knew which was the right woman, he told me when the time came, I'd have no doubt. And I didn't. When I woke in the dark under that tree on the road to Leoch, with you sitting on my chest, cursing me for bleeding to death, I said to myself 'Jamie Fraser, for all ye canna see what she looks like, and for all she weights as much as a good draft horse, this is the woman.	Diana Gabaldon, Outlander	humor, love
Like ThisIf anyone asks youhow the perfect satisfactionof all our sexual wantingwill look, lift your faceand say,Like this.When someone mentions the gracefulnessof the nightsky, climb up on the roofand dance and say,Like this.If anyone wants to know what "spirit" is,or what "God’s fragrance" means,lean your head toward him or her.Keep your face there close.Like this.When someone quotes the old poetic imageabout clouds gradually uncovering the moon,slowly loosen knot by knot the stringsof your robe.Like this.If anyone wonders how Jesus raised the dead,don’t try to explain the miracle.Kiss me on the lips.Like this. Like this.When someone asks what it meansto "die for love," pointhere.If someone asks how tall I am, frownand measure with your fingers the spacebetween the creases on your forehead.This tall.The soul sometimes leaves the body, the returns.When someone doesn’t believe that,walk back into my house.Like this.When lovers moan,they’re telling our story.Like this.I am a sky where spirits live.Stare into this deepening blue,while the breeze says a secret.Like this.When someone asks what there is to do,light the candle in his hand.Like this.How did Joseph’s scent come to Jacob?Huuuuu.How did Jacob’s sight return?Huuuu.A little wind cleans the eyes.Like this.When Shams comes back from Tabriz,he’ll put just his head around the edgeof the door to surprise us Like this.	Jalaluddin Rumi	love
May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.	Robert A. Heinlein	benediction, blessing, life, love
I...I sang," she whispered, "if that matters," and Karou felt her heart pulled to pieces. This Misbegotten warrior, fiercest of them all, had crouched in an icy stream bed to sing a chimera soul into her canteen, because she hadn't known what else to do.The singing wouldn't have mattered, but she wasn't going to tell Liraz that. If Ziri's soul was in that canteen, Karou would happily learn whatever song Liraz had sung and make it part of her resurrection ritual forever, just so that the angel would never feel that she'd been foolish.	Laini Taylor, Dreams of Gods & Monsters	butterly-in-a-bottle, glean, karou, liraz, love, singing, soul, ziri
So for now,I will miss you like I’ll never see you again,And the next time I see you,I will kiss you like I’ll never kiss you again,And when I fall asleep beside you I will fall asleep as if I’ll never wake up again,because I don’t know if I will.I don’t know if I will.- I Will Love You Like The World Is Ending	Charlotte Eriksson, Empty Roads & Broken Bottles; in search for The Great Perhaps	breakup, change, endings, last-time, love, missing, poetry
That kind of love should've been able to beat sickness. That kind of love should've conquered anything.	Jennifer L. Armentrout, Onyx	jennifer-l-armentrout, love, onyx
If I never see you again I will always carry youinsideoutsideon my fingertipsand at brain edgesand in centerscentersof what I am ofwhat remains.	Charles Bukowski, Living on Luck	letters, love, relationships
You know I'm old in some ways-in others-well, I'm just a little girl. I like sunshine and pretty things and cheerfulness-and I dread responsibility.	F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise	love
When you leave,weary of me,without a word I shall gently let you go.	Kim Sowol	azaleas, heartache, heartbreak, korean-poetry, letting-go, love
Love is eternal -- the aspect may change, but not the essence. There is the same difference in a person before and after he is in love as there is in an unlighted lamp and one that is burning. The lamp was there and was a good lamp, but now it is shedding light too, and that is its real function. And love makes one calmer about many things, and that way, one is more fit for one's work.	Vincent van Gogh	love
It's easy to look back and see it, and it's easy to give the advice. But the sad fact is, most people don't look beneath the surface until it's too late.	Wendelin Van Draanen, Flipped	advice, character, deep, fact, life, love, people, personality, surface, truth
How could I have been so ignorant? she thinks. So stupid, so unseeing, so given over to carelessness. But without such ignorance, such carelessness, how could we live? If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next—if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions—you'd be doomed. You'd be as ruined as God. You'd be a stone. You'd never eat or drink or laugh or get out of bed in the morning. You'd never love anyone, ever again. You'd never dare to.	Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin	carelessness, despair, ignorance, insight, loneliness, love, sorrow, wisdom
It's usually the selfish people who are loved the most. They do what you deny yourself, and you love them for it. You give them your heart.	Saul Bellow	love
How many loved your moments of glad grace, And loved your beauty with love false or true; But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.	W.B. Yeats, The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats	ageing, aging, beauty, love, poetry
No matter how bad your heart is broken, the world doesn't stop for your grief.	Faraaz Kazi	grief, heart, heartbreak, love
I am as wrapped up in her as a vine that clings to a tree seeking for sustenance. She’s tied me to her for eternity. She’s my home. She’s my reason for being. To win and hold her heart is my only purpose.	Colleen Houck	love, romance
She asked if I loved another woman, so I answered honestly and said, “Dinner was great, but I could go for dessert.	Dark Jar Tin Zoo, Love Quotes for the Ages. Specifically Ages 19-91.	dinner, food, funny, honesty, humor, love, relationships, word-junkies
I can do pain. That’s the easy part of life. It’s everything else, happiness, laughter, love, that’s fucking complicated.	Jessica Sorensen, The Coincidence of Callie & Kayden	callie-and-kayden, jessica-sorensen, love
Perhaps all the questions we ask of love, to measure, test, probe, and save it, have the additional effect of cutting it short. Perhaps the reason we are unable to love is that we yearn to be loved, that is, we demand something (love) from our partner instead of delivering ourselves up to him demand-free and asking for nothing but his company.	Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being	love
some people fall in love over and over again while some people can only do it once.	Ann Brashares, Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood	love
Child, it's a very bad thing for a woman to face the worst that can happen to her, because after she's faced the worst she can't ever really fear anything again. ...Scarlett, always save something to fear— even as you save something to love...	Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind	fear, love, relationship
Knees suddenly weak, she reached for his forearms to stabilize herself. “You came for me.”He beamed, looking for all the world like a selfless, daring hero.“Don’t sound so surprised.” Dropping the cane, he pulled her into a crushing embrace that tore her away from Wolf and lifted her clean off the floor. “It turns out you are worth a lot of money on the black market.	Marissa Meyer, Cress	carswell, cress, humor, love, moment, thorne
That's the nature of being a parent, Sabine has discovered. You'll love your children far more than you ever loved your parents, and -- in the recognition that your own children cannot fathom the depth of your love -- you come to understand the tragic, unrequited love of your own parents.	Ursula Hegi	children, irony, love, parenting
He promised us that everything would be okay. I was a child, but I knew that everything would not be okay. That did not make my father a liar. It made him my father.	Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close	father, love
All I want from you is to trust me with what little you can, and grow in loving people around you with the same love I share with you. It's not your job to change them, or to convince them. You are free to love without an agenda.	William Paul Young, The Shack	love, people, relationships
Well, you can think what you want, so long as you remember - no matter how ordinary things seem between us - I'm still here, still in love with you, and care about you more than any other guy, evil or otherwise, ever will.	Richelle Mead, The Indigo Spell	adrian-ivashkov, love
The capacity to be alone is the capacity to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it's not. It is an existential truth: only those people who are capable of being alone are capable of love, of sharing, of going into the deepest core of another person--without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other. They allow the other absolute freedom, because they know that if the other leaves, they will be as happy as they are now. Their happiness cannot be taken by the other, because it is not given by the other.	Osho	capacity-to-be-alone, choices, happiness, love
When she came to her senses again she cut off all contact with him. It had not been easy, but she had steeled herself. The last time she saw him she was standing on a platform in the tunnelbana at Gamla Stan and he was sitting in the train on his way downtown. She had stared at him for a whole minute and decided that she did not have a grain of feeling left, because it would have been the same as bleeding to death. Fuck you.	Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Played with Fire	anger, emotion, feeling, heartbreak, love
I love you more. I love you enough to let you go and live your dream." I tilted my head and shrugged. "Don't you see....? I love you more."He smiled softly and I brushed some hair off his forehead. Running the backs of my fingers down his cheek, I whispered, "And, yes, I will miss you, more than you could possibly imagine, but I know that you have to do this Kellan. And you know it too."Stubbornly he shook his head. "No, I know that I have to be with you. Everything else is just .... details.	S.C. Stephens, Effortless	love, lovers, lovers-sadness
I'm beginning to think that maybe it's not just how much you love someone. Maybe what matters is who you are when you're with them.	Anne Tyler, The Accidental Tourist	inspirational, love
No one compares to you, but there's no you, except in my dreams tonight.	Lana Del Rey	lost, lost-love, love, lyrics, romance
Self-talk reflects your innermost feelings.	Asa Don Brown	counsel, counsellor, counselor, humanity, joy, kindness, love, peace, psychological, psychology, self-esteem, self-talk, self-worth, spiritual-indwelling, spiritual-life, spirituality
When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks.	Natalie Clifford Barney	love, romance
To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.	Anna Louise Strong	love, soul-mate
You don't know when you're twenty-three.You don't know what it really means to crawl into someone else's life and stay there. You can't see all the ways you're going to get tangled, how you're going to bond skin to skin. How the idea of separating will feel in five years, in ten - in fifteen. When Georgie thought about divorce now, she imagined lying side by side with Neal on two operating tables while a team of doctors tried to unthread their vascular systems.She didn't know at twenty-three.	Rainbow Rowell, Landline	divorce, landline, love, marriage
Everything I know, I know because of love.	Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace	fiction, love
If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.	Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays	love
It's good to let God pick a man for you. We don't do so well when we pick them ourselves. They end up lipsticks in a drawer, all those wrong colors you thought looked so good in the package.	Deb Caletti, The Queen of Everything	choose, color, god, life, lipstick, love, man, men, package, pick
No matter how long or how difficult, we will undo whatever that Moroi boy has done to you." to me.	Richelle Mead, The Fiery Heart	adrian-and-sydney, adrian-ivashkov, love, otp, otp-foreva, otp-in-love, rochelle-mead, sex, star-crossed-lovers, sydney-sage, sydrian, the-fiery-heart
Whoever said that love hurts was wrong. Love is excruciating, especially when you can feel it slipping through your fingers and there is nothing you can do about it. Like someone was playing tug-of-war with my limbs, ripping to shreds whatever was left behind. What it would feel like when love was lost...I wouldn't survive that	Julie Hockley, Crow's Row	crow-s-row, love
The question, love, is whether you want me enough to take the risk.	Lisa Kleypas, Mine Till Midnight	love, risk, want
I'm yours for ever--for ever and ever. Here I stand; I'm as firm as a rock. If you'll only trust me, how little you'll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.	Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady	love

Not enough," he said, letting her hair slip through his fingers. "If I kiss you all day, everyday, for the rest of my life, it won't be enough.

Cassandra Clare, City of Lost Souls

clary-fray, jace, kissing, love

The worst thing you can do if you miss or need someone is let them know it.

Sarah Dessen, Lock and Key

love, missing-someone, truth, worst-thing

There are many forms of love and affection, some people can spend their whole lives together without knowing each other's names. Naming is a difficult and time-consuming process; it concerns essences, and it means power. But on the wild nights who can call you home? Only the one who knows your name.

Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

love

They say: 'If a man knew himself,he would know all mankind.'I say: 'If a man loved mankind,he would know something of himself.

Kahlil Gibran, Love Letters in the Sand: The Love Poems of Khalil Gibran

love

So what I want to know is why it is that I can no longer find you, in my mind. You are still there, just, but you are there like a ghost, a will o' the wisp. Not long ago you burned--your heart burned--in my mind like silver fire. But after that night in the inn it became patchy and dim, and now it is not there at all.""Could it be that the heart that you seek is no longer my own? I have given my heart to another.""The boy? The one in the inn? With the unicorn?""Yes.""You should have let me take it back then, for my sisters and me. We could have been young again, well into the next age of the world. Your boy will break it, or waste it, or lose it. They all do.""Nonetheless, he has my heart. I hope your sisters will not be too hard on you, when you return to them without it.

Neil Gaiman, Stardust

love

Just for future reference, don't use words like "love" anymore. It's a very sensitive word and it wears out quickly. Romeo barely says it, but John Hinckley filled up a whole journal with it. To put it into your terms, it's a currency that's easily devalued. Pretty soon you're saying it whenever you hang up the phone or whenever you leave. It turns into an apology. Then it's an excuse. Some assholes want it to be a bulletproof vest: don't hate me; I love you. But mostly it just means--more. More, more--give me something more. A couple of years from now, when you're on your own completely, if you really fall in love, if it really comes to that--and I pity you if it does--you have to look right down into the black of her eyes, right down into the emptiness in there and feel everything, absolutely everything she needs and you have to be willing to drown in it, Kevin. You'd have to want to be crushed, buried alive. Because that's what real love feels like--choking. They used to bury some women in their wedding dresses, you know. I thought it was because all those husbands were too cheap to spring for another gown, but now it makes sense: love is your first foot in the grave. That's why the second most abused word is "forever".

Peter Craig, Hot Plastic

emptiness, forever, love

Touchstone watched, suddenly conscious that he probably only had five seconds left to be alone with Sabriel, to say something, to say anything. Perhaps the last five seconds they ever would have alone together.I am not afraid, he said to himself."I love you," he whispered. "I hope you don't mind.

Garth Nix, Sabriel

love, sabriel

There are some experiences in life they haven't invented the right words for.

Lisa Kleypas, Married By Morning

love, romance, sorry, wisdom

I think Heaven will be like a first kiss.

Sarah Addison Allen, The Sugar Queen

first-kiss, heaven, kisses, love

Her desires are mine. Her wishes are mine. Should even the world stand against her, my blade will be at her side. And should it fail to protect her, let my own existence be forfeit." - Ash

Julie Kagawa, The Iron Queen

heartfelt, love, sweethearts, vow, vows

The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.

Nat King Cole

eden-ahbez, love

You know that I could as soon forget you as my existence!

Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

love

Love comes with a knife, not some shy question, and not with fears for its reputation!

Jalaluddin Rumi

love

Love is not primarily a relationship to a specific person; it is an attitude, an ordination of character which determines the relatedness of the person to the whole world as a whole, not toward one object of love

Erich Fromm

fromm, love

I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real sentences. But our innocence goes awfully deep, and our discreditable secret is that we don't know anything at all, and our horrid inner secret is that we don't care that we don't.

Dylan Thomas

companions, earthy, hope, innocence, love, optimism, partnership

In this whole screwed-up town, you're the only thing that's always been right to me," he whispered. "I love you, Claire." She saw something that might have been just a flash of panic go across his expression, but then he steadied again. "I can't believe I'm saying this, but I do. I love you.

Rachel Caine, Lord of Misrule

fear, love

The moment our lips met, I knew with pure and piercing certainty that I would have waited for him forever.

Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone

alina, love

Dexter, I love you so much. So, so much, and I probably always will. I just don't like you anymore. I'm sorry.

David Nicholls, One Day

love, one-day, one-day-david-nicholls, sorry

You can’t leave yet. I’m not finished falling in love with you.

Colleen Hoover, November 9

love

One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy.

Alain de Botton

attraction, health, love, pathology, right, wrong

If we’re going to kiss, it has to be book-worthy.

Colleen Hoover, November 9

kiss, love

You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.

William Faulkner

love

There has to be a moment at the beginning where you wonder whether you’re in love with the person or in love with the feeling of love itself. If the moment doesn’t pass, that’s it—you’re done. And if the moment does pass, it never goes that far. It stands in the distance, ready for whenever you want it back. Sometimes it’s even there when you thought you were searching for something else, like an escape route, or your lovers’ face.

David Levithan, The Lover's Dictionary

love

Deciding whether or not to trust a person is like deciding whether or not to climb a tree because you might get a wonderful view from the highest branch or you might simply get covered in sap and for this reason many people choose to spend their time alone and indoors where it is harder to get a splinter.

Lemony Snicket, The Penultimate Peril

humor, inspirational, love, simile, tree, trust

One word more. You look as if you thought it tainted you to beloved by me. You cannot avoid it. Nay, I, if I would, cannotcleanse you from it. But I would not, if I could. I have neverloved any woman before: my life has been too busy, my thoughtstoo much absorbed with other things. Now I love, and will love.But do not be afraid of too much expression on my part.

Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South

love

It takes great courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it. And even more courage to see it in the one you love

Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband

love

I regret..." Tobias tilts his head, and sighs. "I regret my choice.""What Choice?", and... I felt like maybe I could make something more of my decision."

Veronica Roth, Insurgent

abnegation, dauntless, faction, love, romantic, tobias-eaton, tris-prior

For which of my bad parts didst thou first fall in love with me?

William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing

love

You've got to have someone who loves your body. Who doesn't define you, but sees you. Who loves what he sees. Who you don't have to struggle to be good enough for.

Deb Caletti, The Secret Life of Prince Charming

good-enough, love, seeing, someone, struggle, you

I let myself slip away... Just to stay sane. Just to get through it. And when I felt myself slipping too far, I held on to the one thing I'm always sure of - Blue eyes. Bronze curls. The fact that Simon Snow is the most powerful magician alive. That nothing can hurt him, not even me. That Simon Snow is alive. And I'm hopelessly in love with him.

Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

baz, carry-on, love

Millions of people are suffering: they want to be loved but they don't know how to love. And love cannot exist as a monologue; it is a dialogue, a very harmonious dialogue.

Osho

love

Follow me, reader! Who told you that there is no true, faithful, eternal love in this world! May the liar's vile tongue be cut out! Follow me, my reader, and me alone, and I will show you such a love!

Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

love

Before I go," he said, and paused -- "I may kiss her?"It was remembered afterwards that when he bent down and touched her face with his lips, he murmured some words. The child, who was nearest to him, told them afterwards, and told her grandchildren when she was a handsome old lady, that she heard him say, "A life you love.

Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

death, inspirational, love, made-me-cry, nobility, sacrifice

Friendship is selfless love, care, respect, and honor not a profitable opportunity.

Santosh Kalwar

care, friendship, love, opportunity, respect

Think how you love me," she whispered. "I don’t ask you to love me always like this, but I ask you to remember. Somewhere inside me there’ll always be the person I am to-night.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

love

We wanted the freedom to love. We wanted the freedom to choose. Now we have to fight for it.

Lauren Oliver, Requiem

fight, fighting-for-love, freedom, love

Love lasts about seven years. That's how long it takes for the cells of the body to totally replace themselves.

Françoise Sagan

love, relationships

She put one hand on mine. “When someone is in your heart, they’re never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times.

Mitch Albom, For One More Day

heart, love

You had to be willing to fight in order for a love story to last a life time.

Cristina Marrero, The Unsung Love Story

cristina-marrero, cristy-anne, lesbian, lgbtq, love, queer-youth, romance, the-river, the-unsung-love-story

I knew, you would do me good, in some way, at some time;- I saw it in your eyes when I first beheld you: their expression and smile did not- (again he stopped)- did not (he proceeded hastily) strike delight to my very inmost heart so for nothing.

Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

love, romance

Stains are even worse when you're the only one who can see them.

Gayle Forman, Just One Day

love, stains, willem

If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden.

Claudia Adrienne Grandi

love, missing-you

I have now been married ten years. 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. No woman was ever nearer to her mate than I am: ever more absolutely bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh. I know no weariness of my Edward's society: he knows none of mine, any more than we each do the pulsation of the heart that beats in our separate bosoms; consequently, we are ever together. To be together is for us to be at once free as in solitude, as gay as in company. We talk, I believe, all day long: to talk to each other is but more animated and an audible thinking. All my confidence is bestowed on him, all his confidence is devoted to me; we are precisely suited in character - perfect concord is the result.

Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

love

People who love themselves, don’t hurt other people. The more we hate ourselves, the more we want others to suffer.

Dan Pearce, Single Dad Laughing

bullies, bullying, hurt, love, people, self-esteem

Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

love

Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.

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

love

Love! Love until the night collapses!

Pablo Neruda, Machu Picchu

love

If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.

Michael Jackson

inspirational, life, love, pop, singer, songwriter

Look at me, chica." When she does, I repeat, "Eres hermosa.""What does it mean?""You're beautiful.

Simone Elkeles, Rules of Attraction

beautiful, carlos-fuentes, love, rules-of-attraction, sweet

It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.

Gustave Flaubert, Sentimental Education

love, relationships

I didn't know love could leave the lights on all the time.

Rainbow Rowell, Attachments

love

twice I have lived forever in a smile

E.E. Cummings

cummings, love, poetry, smiling

alone with everybody the flesh covers the bone and they put a mind in there and sometimes a soul,and the women break vases against the walls and them men drink too much and nobody finds the one but they keep looking crawling in and out of beds.flesh covers the bone and the flesh searches for more than flesh.there's no chance at all:we are all trapped by a singular fate.nobody ever finds the one.the city dumps fill the junkyards fill the mad houses fill the hospitals fill the graveyards fill nothing else fills.

Charles Bukowski, Love Is a Dog from Hell

love

Your truest friends are the ones who will stand by you in your darkest moments--because they're willing to brave the shadows with you--and in your greatest moments--because they're not afraid to let you shine.

Nicole Yatsonsky

friends, friendship, love, loyalty, truth

Everyone's a little crazy. Some people just hide it better than others.

Michelle Hodkin, The Retribution of Mara Dyer

love, mara-dyer, retribution-of-mara-dyer, romance

You, of all people, deserve a happy ending. Despite everything that happened to you, you aren't bitter. You aren't cold. You've just retreated a little and been shy, and that's okay. If I were a fairy godmother, I would give you your heart's desire in an istant. And I would wipe away your tears and tell you not to cry.-Rachel to Julia

Sylvain Reynard, Gabriel's Inferno

friendship, happiness, love

Love, whether newly born or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, that it overflows upon the outward world.

Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

love

He looks at her and smiles. "You're sort of dangerous, you know?" She stares at him. "Me?" "Yeah," he says sitting back. "I'm way too honest with you.

Jennifer E. Smith, The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight

connection, love

When I asked my da how ye knew which was the right woman, he told me when the time came, I'd have no doubt. And I didn't. When I woke in the dark under that tree on the road to Leoch, with you sitting on my chest, cursing me for bleeding to death, I said to myself 'Jamie Fraser, for all ye canna see what she looks like, and for all she weights as much as a good draft horse, this is the woman.

Diana Gabaldon, Outlander

humor, love

Like ThisIf anyone asks youhow the perfect satisfactionof all our sexual wantingwill look, lift your faceand say,Like this.When someone mentions the gracefulnessof the nightsky, climb up on the roofand dance and say,Like this.If anyone wants to know what "spirit" is,or what "God’s fragrance" means,lean your head toward him or her.Keep your face there close.Like this.When someone quotes the old poetic imageabout clouds gradually uncovering the moon,slowly loosen knot by knot the stringsof your robe.Like this.If anyone wonders how Jesus raised the dead,don’t try to explain the miracle.Kiss me on the lips.Like this. Like this.When someone asks what it meansto "die for love," pointhere.If someone asks how tall I am, frownand measure with your fingers the spacebetween the creases on your forehead.This tall.The soul sometimes leaves the body, the returns.When someone doesn’t believe that,walk back into my house.Like this.When lovers moan,they’re telling our story.Like this.I am a sky where spirits live.Stare into this deepening blue,while the breeze says a secret.Like this.When someone asks what there is to do,light the candle in his hand.Like this.How did Joseph’s scent come to Jacob?Huuuuu.How did Jacob’s sight return?Huuuu.A little wind cleans the eyes.Like this.When Shams comes back from Tabriz,he’ll put just his head around the edgeof the door to surprise us Like this.

Jalaluddin Rumi

love

May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.

Robert A. Heinlein

benediction, blessing, life, love

I...I sang," she whispered, "if that matters," and Karou felt her heart pulled to pieces. This Misbegotten warrior, fiercest of them all, had crouched in an icy stream bed to sing a chimera soul into her canteen, because she hadn't known what else to do.The singing wouldn't have mattered, but she wasn't going to tell Liraz that. If Ziri's soul was in that canteen, Karou would happily learn whatever song Liraz had sung and make it part of her resurrection ritual forever, just so that the angel would never feel that she'd been foolish.

Laini Taylor, Dreams of Gods & Monsters

butterly-in-a-bottle, glean, karou, liraz, love, singing, soul, ziri

So for now,I will miss you like I’ll never see you again,And the next time I see you,I will kiss you like I’ll never kiss you again,And when I fall asleep beside you I will fall asleep as if I’ll never wake up again,because I don’t know if I will.I don’t know if I will.- I Will Love You Like The World Is Ending

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

breakup, change, endings, last-time, love, missing, poetry

That kind of love should've been able to beat sickness. That kind of love should've conquered anything.

Jennifer L. Armentrout, Onyx

jennifer-l-armentrout, love, onyx

If I never see you again I will always carry youinsideoutsideon my fingertipsand at brain edgesand in centerscentersof what I am ofwhat remains.

Charles Bukowski, Living on Luck

letters, love, relationships

You know I'm old in some ways-in others-well, I'm just a little girl. I like sunshine and pretty things and cheerfulness-and I dread responsibility.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

love

When you leave,weary of me,without a word I shall gently let you go.

Kim Sowol

azaleas, heartache, heartbreak, korean-poetry, letting-go, love

Love is eternal -- the aspect may change, but not the essence. There is the same difference in a person before and after he is in love as there is in an unlighted lamp and one that is burning. The lamp was there and was a good lamp, but now it is shedding light too, and that is its real function. And love makes one calmer about many things, and that way, one is more fit for one's work.

Vincent van Gogh

love

It's easy to look back and see it, and it's easy to give the advice. But the sad fact is, most people don't look beneath the surface until it's too late.

Wendelin Van Draanen, Flipped

advice, character, deep, fact, life, love, people, personality, surface, truth

How could I have been so ignorant? she thinks. So stupid, so unseeing, so given over to carelessness. But without such ignorance, such carelessness, how could we live? If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next—if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions—you'd be doomed. You'd be as ruined as God. You'd be a stone. You'd never eat or drink or laugh or get out of bed in the morning. You'd never love anyone, ever again. You'd never dare to.

Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

carelessness, despair, ignorance, insight, loneliness, love, sorrow, wisdom

It's usually the selfish people who are loved the most. They do what you deny yourself, and you love them for it. You give them your heart.

Saul Bellow

love

How many loved your moments of glad grace, And loved your beauty with love false or true; But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.

W.B. Yeats, The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats

ageing, aging, beauty, love, poetry

No matter how bad your heart is broken, the world doesn't stop for your grief.

Faraaz Kazi

grief, heart, heartbreak, love

I am as wrapped up in her as a vine that clings to a tree seeking for sustenance. She’s tied me to her for eternity. She’s my home. She’s my reason for being. To win and hold her heart is my only purpose.

Colleen Houck

love, romance

She asked if I loved another woman, so I answered honestly and said, “Dinner was great, but I could go for dessert.

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

dinner, food, funny, honesty, humor, love, relationships, word-junkies

I can do pain. That’s the easy part of life. It’s everything else, happiness, laughter, love, that’s fucking complicated.

Jessica Sorensen, The Coincidence of Callie & Kayden

callie-and-kayden, jessica-sorensen, love

Perhaps all the questions we ask of love, to measure, test, probe, and save it, have the additional effect of cutting it short. Perhaps the reason we are unable to love is that we yearn to be loved, that is, we demand something (love) from our partner instead of delivering ourselves up to him demand-free and asking for nothing but his company.

Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

love

some people fall in love over and over again while some people can only do it once.

Ann Brashares, Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood

love

Child, it's a very bad thing for a woman to face the worst that can happen to her, because after she's faced the worst she can't ever really fear anything again. ...Scarlett, always save something to fear— even as you save something to love...

Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

fear, love, relationship

Knees suddenly weak, she reached for his forearms to stabilize herself. “You came for me.”He beamed, looking for all the world like a selfless, daring hero.“Don’t sound so surprised.” Dropping the cane, he pulled her into a crushing embrace that tore her away from Wolf and lifted her clean off the floor. “It turns out you are worth a lot of money on the black market.

Marissa Meyer, Cress

carswell, cress, humor, love, moment, thorne

That's the nature of being a parent, Sabine has discovered. You'll love your children far more than you ever loved your parents, and -- in the recognition that your own children cannot fathom the depth of your love -- you come to understand the tragic, unrequited love of your own parents.

Ursula Hegi

children, irony, love, parenting

He promised us that everything would be okay. I was a child, but I knew that everything would not be okay. That did not make my father a liar. It made him my father.

Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

father, love

All I want from you is to trust me with what little you can, and grow in loving people around you with the same love I share with you. It's not your job to change them, or to convince them. You are free to love without an agenda.

William Paul Young, The Shack

love, people, relationships

Well, you can think what you want, so long as you remember - no matter how ordinary things seem between us - I'm still here, still in love with you, and care about you more than any other guy, evil or otherwise, ever will.

Richelle Mead, The Indigo Spell

adrian-ivashkov, love

The capacity to be alone is the capacity to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it's not. It is an existential truth: only those people who are capable of being alone are capable of love, of sharing, of going into the deepest core of another person--without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other. They allow the other absolute freedom, because they know that if the other leaves, they will be as happy as they are now. Their happiness cannot be taken by the other, because it is not given by the other.

Osho

capacity-to-be-alone, choices, happiness, love

When she came to her senses again she cut off all contact with him. It had not been easy, but she had steeled herself. The last time she saw him she was standing on a platform in the tunnelbana at Gamla Stan and he was sitting in the train on his way downtown. She had stared at him for a whole minute and decided that she did not have a grain of feeling left, because it would have been the same as bleeding to death. Fuck you.

Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Played with Fire

anger, emotion, feeling, heartbreak, love

I love you more. I love you enough to let you go and live your dream." I tilted my head and shrugged. "Don't you see....? I love you more."He smiled softly and I brushed some hair off his forehead. Running the backs of my fingers down his cheek, I whispered, "And, yes, I will miss you, more than you could possibly imagine, but I know that you have to do this Kellan. And you know it too."Stubbornly he shook his head. "No, I know that I have to be with you. Everything else is just .... details.

S.C. Stephens, Effortless

love, lovers, lovers-sadness

I'm beginning to think that maybe it's not just how much you love someone. Maybe what matters is who you are when you're with them.

Anne Tyler, The Accidental Tourist

inspirational, love

No one compares to you, but there's no you, except in my dreams tonight.

Lana Del Rey

lost, lost-love, love, lyrics, romance

Self-talk reflects your innermost feelings.

Asa Don Brown

counsel, counsellor, counselor, humanity, joy, kindness, love, peace, psychological, psychology, self-esteem, self-talk, self-worth, spiritual-indwelling, spiritual-life, spirituality

When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks.

Natalie Clifford Barney

love, romance

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Anna Louise Strong

love, soul-mate

You don't know when you're twenty-three.You don't know what it really means to crawl into someone else's life and stay there. You can't see all the ways you're going to get tangled, how you're going to bond skin to skin. How the idea of separating will feel in five years, in ten - in fifteen. When Georgie thought about divorce now, she imagined lying side by side with Neal on two operating tables while a team of doctors tried to unthread their vascular systems.She didn't know at twenty-three.

Rainbow Rowell, Landline

divorce, landline, love, marriage

Everything I know, I know because of love.

Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

fiction, love

If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.

Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

love

It's good to let God pick a man for you. We don't do so well when we pick them ourselves. They end up lipsticks in a drawer, all those wrong colors you thought looked so good in the package.

Deb Caletti, The Queen of Everything

choose, color, god, life, lipstick, love, man, men, package, pick

No matter how long or how difficult, we will undo whatever that Moroi boy has done to you." to me.

Richelle Mead, The Fiery Heart

adrian-and-sydney, adrian-ivashkov, love, otp, otp-foreva, otp-in-love, rochelle-mead, sex, star-crossed-lovers, sydney-sage, sydrian, the-fiery-heart

Whoever said that love hurts was wrong. Love is excruciating, especially when you can feel it slipping through your fingers and there is nothing you can do about it. Like someone was playing tug-of-war with my limbs, ripping to shreds whatever was left behind. What it would feel like when love was lost...I wouldn't survive that

Julie Hockley, Crow's Row

crow-s-row, love

The question, love, is whether you want me enough to take the risk.

Lisa Kleypas, Mine Till Midnight

love, risk, want

I'm yours for ever--for ever and ever. Here I stand; I'm as firm as a rock. If you'll only trust me, how little you'll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.

Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

love