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[H]iding how you really feel and trying to make everyone happy doesn't make you nice, it just makes you a liar. | Jenny O'Connell, The Book of Luke | honesty, life, life-lessons, love |
Part of the problem with the word 'disabilities' is that it immediately suggests an inability to see or hear or walk or do other things that many of us take for granted. But what of people who can't feel? Or talk about their feelings? Or manage their feelings in constructive ways? What of people who aren't able to form close and strong relationships? And people who cannot find fulfillment in their lives, or those who have lost hope, who live in disappointment and bitterness and find in life no joy, no love? These, it seems to me, are the real disabilities. | Fred Rogers, The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember | bitterness, disability, disappointment, emptiness, feelings, fulfillment, happiness, hope, joy, love, potential, relationships, self-awareness |
It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer... and everything collapses. | Colette | collapse, curiosity, flowers, friendly, friends, grief, letter, love, smile, tears |
You're like a song that I heard when I was a little kid but forgot I knew until I heard it again. | Maggie Stiefvater, Lament: The Faerie Queen's Deception | beautiful, completion, love, music, recognition, sad |
I will find you," he whispered in my ear. "I promise. If I must endure two hundred years of purgatory, two hundred years without you - then that is my punishment, which I have earned for my crimes. For I have lied, and killed, and stolen; betrayed and broken trust. But there is the one thing that shall lie in the balance. When I shall stand before God, I shall have one thing to say, to weigh against the rest."His voice dropped, nearly to a whisper, and his arms tightened around me.Lord, ye gave me a rare woman, and God! I loved her well. | Diana Gabaldon, Dragonfly in Amber | love, outlander |
If I were to live a thousand years, I would belong to you for all of them. If we were to live a thousand lives, I would want to make you mine in each one. | Michelle Hodkin, The Evolution of Mara Dyer | love |
I don’t know what they are called, the spaces between seconds– but I think of you always in those intervals. | Salvador Plascencia, The People of Paper | longing, love, sadness |
Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it. Embracing our vulnerabilities is risky but not nearly as dangerous as giving up on love and belonging and joy—the experiences that make us the most vulnerable. Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light. | Brené Brown | belonging, courage, inspirational, light, love, vulnerability |
Love sucks. Sometimes it feels good. Sometimes it's just another way to bleed. | Laurell K. Hamilton, Blue Moon | love |
I love you,' Buttercup said. 'I know this must come as something of a surprise to you, since all I've ever done is scorn you and degrade you and taunt you, but I have loved you for several hours now, and every second, more. I thought an hour ago that I loved you more than any woman has ever loved a man, but a half hour after that I knew that what I felt before was nothing compared to what I felt then. But ten minutes after that, I understood that my previous love was a puddle compared to the high seas before a storm. Your eyes are like that, did you know? Well they are. How many minutes ago was I? Twenty? Had I brought my feelings up to then? It doesn't matter.' Buttercup still could not look at him. The sun was rising behind her now; she could feel the heat on her back, and it gave her courage. 'I love you so much more now than twenty minutes ago that there cannot be comparison. I love you so much more now then when you opened your hovel door, there cannot be comparison. There is no room in my body for anything but you. My arms love you, my ears adore you, my knees shake with blind affection. My mind begs you to ask it something so it can obey. Do you want me to follow you for the rest of your days? I will do that. Do you want me to crawl? I will crawl. I will be quiet for you or sing for you, or if you are hungry, let me bring you food, or if you have thirst and nothing will quench it but Arabian wine, I will go to Araby, even though it is across the world, and bring a bottle back for your lunch. Anything there is that I can do for you, I will do for you; anything there is that I cannot do, I will learn to do. I know I cannot compete with the Countess in skills or wisdom or appeal, and I saw the way she looked at you. And I saw the way you looked at her. But remember, please, that she is old and has other interests, while I am seventeen and for me there is only you. Dearest Westley--I've never called you that before, have I?--Westley, Westley, Westley, Westley, Westley,--darling Westley, adored Westley, sweet perfect Westley, whisper that I have a chance to win your love.' And with that, she dared the bravest thing she'd ever done; she looked right into his eyes. | William Goldman, The Princess Bride | love |
I had not intended to love him; the reader knows I had wrought hard to extirpate from my soul the germs of love there detected; and now, at the first renewed view of him, they spontaneously revived, great and strong! He made me love him without looking at me. | Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre | affection, attraction, love |
To him she seemed so beautiful, so seductive, so different from ordinary people, that he could not understand why no one was as disturbed as he by the clicking of her heels on the paving stones, why no one else's heart was wild with the breeze stirred by the sighs of her veils, why everyone did not go mad with the movements of her braid, the flight of her hands, the gold of her laughter. He had not missed a single one of her gestures, not one of the indications of her character, but he did not dare approach her for fear of destroying the spell. | Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera | beauty, love |
I'm not sure this is a world I belong in anymore. I'm not sure that I want to wake up. | Gayle Forman, If I Stay | lost, love |
Heaven would never be heaven without you. | Richard Matheson, What Dreams May Come | heaven, love |
I have never found anybody who could stand to accept the daily demonstrative love I feel in me, and give back as good as I give. | Sylvia Plath, The Journals of Sylvia Plath | acceptance, love |
I'm saying I'm in love with you! I've been in love with you this whole bleeding year! | Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss | love |
I know my heart will never be the sameBut I'm telling myself I'll be okay | Sara Evans | breakups, couples, heartbreak, love, relationships |
Love.Because of you, in gardens of blossomingFlowers I ache from the perfumes of spring.I have forgotten your face, I no longerRemember your hands; how did your lipsFeel on mine?Because of you, I love the white statuesDrowsing in the parks, the white statues thatHave neither voice nor sight.I have forgotten your voice, your happy voice;I have forgotten your eyes.Like a flower to its perfume, I am bound toMy vague memory of you. I live with painThat is like a wound; if you touch me, you willMake to me an irreperable harm.Your caresses enfold me, like climbingVines on melancholy walls.I have forgotten your love, yet I seem toGlimpse you in every window.Because of you, the heady perfumes ofSummer pain me; because of you, I againSeek out the signs that precipitate desires:Shooting stars, falling objects. | Pablo Neruda | love, poetry |
What would you do if I kissed you right now?"I stared at his beautiful face and his beautiful mouth and I wanted nothing more than to taste it. "I would kiss you back. | Michelle Hodkin, The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer | beautiful, couples, hot, kiss, love, mara-dyer, noah-shaw, ya |
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope. | Maya Angelou | love |
Top 15 Things Money Can’t BuyTime. Happiness. Inner Peace. Integrity. Love. Character. Manners. Health. Respect. Morals. Trust. Patience. Class. Common sense. Dignity. | Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart | character, class, common-sense, dignity, happiness, health, inner-peace, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-quotes, integrity, life, life-quotes, love, manners, money, morals, patience, respect, time, trust |
Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one’s life with pomp and blare, like a gay knight riding down; perhaps it crept to one’s side like an old friend through quiet ways; perhaps it revealed itself in seeming prose, until some sudden shaft of illumination flung athwart its pages betrayed the rhythm and the music, perhaps . . . perhaps . . . love unfolded naturally out of a beautiful friendship, as a golden-hearted rose slipping from its green sheath. | L.M. Montgomery | love, romance |
You really love her don't you," she said.With all my heart."She looked as sad as I'd ever seen her.What's your heart telling you to do?"I don't know."Maybe", she said gently,"You're trying to hard to hear it. | Nicholas Sparks | love, romance |
You have a... remarkable memory.""I remember everything about you. You're the one who wasn't paying attention. | Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games | katniss, love, peeta |
We always see our worst selves. Our most vulnerable selves. We need someone else to get close enough to tell us we’re wrong. Someone we trust. | David Levithan, Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List | friendship, love, reflection, trust |
Poets often describe love as an emotion that we can't control, one that overwhelms logic and common sense. That's what it was like for me. I didn't plan on falling in love with you, and I doubt if oyu planned on fallin gin love with me. But once we met, it was clear that neither of us could control what was happening to us. We fell in love, despite our differences, and once we did, something rare and beautiful was created. For me, love like that has happened only once, and that's why every minute we spent together has been seared in my memory. I'll never forget a single moment of it. | Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook | love |
The moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever. | Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind | love |
We can't..." he told me."I know," I agreed.Then his mouth was on mine again, and this time, I knew there would be no turning back. There were no walls this time. Our bodies wrapped together as he tried to get my coat off, then his shirt, then my shirt. ... It really was a lot like when we'd fought out on the quad earlier-that same passion and heat. I think at the end of the day, the instincts that power fighting and sex aren't so different. They all come from an animal side of us. Yet, as more and more clothes came off, it went beyond just animal passion. It was sweet and wonderful at the same time. When I looked into his eyes, I could see without a doubt that he loved me more than anyone else in the world, that I was his salvation, the same way that he was mine. I'd never expected my first time to be in a cabin in the woods, but I realized the place didn't matter. The person did. With someone you loved, you could be anywhere, and it would be incredible. Being in the most luxurious bed in the world wouldn't matter if you were with someone you didn't love. | Richelle Mead, Shadow Kiss | love, vampire-academy |
Do what you love, love what you do, and with all your heart give yourself to it. | Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart | do, doing, heart, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, inspire, inspiring, life, life-and-living, life-lessons, life-quotes, living, love, motivation, motivational, optimism, optimistic, positive, positive-affirmation, positive-life, positive-thinking |
The best things in life make you sweaty. | Edgar Allan Poe | inspirational, life, love, meaning-of-life, philosophical, puberty, purpose |
So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love. | E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly | grief, grief-inspirational, heartbreak, life, life-lessons, love, love-hurts, love-story, price-of-love, prices, romance, sad, sad-but-true, sadness, true-love |
Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation. | Jalaluddin Rumi | heart, love, seperation, soul |
When in a relationship, a real man doesn't make his woman jealous of others, he makes others jealous of his woman. | Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience | boyfriend, girlfriend, inspirational, jealous, life, love, marriage, men, motivational, relationship, women |
The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace. | Mahatma Gandhi | humanism, jimi-hendrix, love, mahatma-gandhi, peace, philosophy, power |
Anyone who is in love is making love the whole time, even when they're not. When two bodies meet, it is just the cup overflowing. They can stay together for hours, even days. They begin the dance one day and finish it the next, or--such is the pleasure they experience--they may never finish it. No eleven minutes for them. | Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes | love, sex |
Those sweet lips. My, oh my, I could kiss those lips all night long.Good things come to those who wait. | Jess C. Scott, The Intern | desire, funny, honesty, humor, humour, love, lust, passion, relationships, romance, sex, truth, wisdom, young, young-adult, young-adults, youth |
Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is to sign on as its accomplice. Instead of vowing to honor and obey, maybe we should swear to aid and abet. That would mean that security is out of the question. The words "make" and "stay" become inappropriate. My love for you has no strings attached. I love you for free. | Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker | love |
My mother... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her. | Jodi Picoult | daughters, growing-up, love, mothers |
I cannot express it; but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is or should be an existence of yours beyond you. What were the use of my creation, if I were entirely contained here? My great miseries in this world have been Heathcliff's miseries, and I watched and felt each from the beginning: my great thought in living is himself. If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger: I should not seem a part of it. My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods: time will change it, I'm well aware, as winter changes the trees. My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I am Heathcliff! He's always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being. | Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights | love, passion |
Believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it. | Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet | faith, love, strength |
We're all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness — and call it love — true love. | Robert Fulghum, True Love | love, misattributed-dr-seuss, weirdness |
We could do it, you know.""What?""Leave the district. Run off. Live in the woods. You and I, we could make it. | Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games | life, love, survival, ya, young-adult |
It's funny how you can forget everything except people loving you. Maybe that's why humans find it so hard getting over love affairs. It's not the pain they're getting over, it's the love. | Melina Marchetta, On the Jellicoe Road | love |
My sister will die over and over again for the rest of my life. Grief is forever. It doesn't go away; it becomes a part of you, step for step, breath for breath. I will never stop grieving Bailey because I will never stop loving her. That's just how it is. Grief and love are conjoined, you don't get one without the other. All I can do is love her, and love the world, emulate her by living with daring and spirit and joy. | Jandy Nelson, The Sky Is Everywhere | death, grief, grieving, loss, love, sadness |
This is what love does: It makes you want to rewrite the world. It makes you want to choose the characters, build the scenery, guide the plot. The person you love sits across from you, and you want to do everything in your power to make it possible, endlessly possible. And when it’s just the two of you, alone in a room, you can pretend that this is how it is, this is how it will be. | David Levithan, Every Day | love, writing |
Parents were the only ones obligated to love you from the rest of the world you had to earn it. | Ann Brashares, Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood | agape, family, life, love, unconditional-love |
Even if you cannot change all the people around you, you can change the people you choose to be around. Life is too short to waste your time on people who don’t respect, appreciate, and value you. Spend your life with people who make you smile, laugh, and feel loved. | Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart | appreciate, change, happiness, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, inspire, inspiring, laugh, life, life-and-living, life-lessons, life-quotes, living, love, optimism, optimistic, positive, positive-affirmation, positive-life, positive-thinking, relationship, respect, smile, value |
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3-parts dead. | Bertrand Russell | life, love |
There ain't no way you can hold onto something that wants to go, you understand? You can only love what you got while you got it. | Kate DiCamillo, Because of Winn-Dixie | leaving, letting-go, love, loving, separating, separation |
Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love. | Mahatma Gandhi | brotherly-love, enemies, fighting, love, peace, trial, victory |
This is not a goodbye, my darling, this is a thank you. Thank you for coming into my life and giving me joy, thank you for loving me and receiving my love in return. Thank you for the memories I will cherish forever. But most of all, thank you for showing me that there will come a time when I can eventually let you go.I love you, T. | Nicholas Sparks, Message in a Bottle | lost-love, love |
It's not that you should never love something so much that it can control you.It's that you need to love something that much so you can never be controlled.It's not a weakness.It's your best strength. | Patrick Ness, The Ask and the Answer | control, love, strength, weakness |
Have you ever lost yourself in a kiss? I mean pure psychedelic inebriation. Not just lustful petting but transcendental metamorphosis when you became aware that the greatness of this being was breathing into you. Licking the sides and corners of your mouth, like sealing a thousand fleshy envelopes filled with the essence of your passionate being and then opened by the same mouth and delivered back to you, over and over again - the first kiss of the rest of your life. A kiss that confirms that the universe is aligned, that the world's greatest resource is love, and maybe even that God is a woman. With or without a belief in God, all kisses are metaphors decipherable by allocations of time, circumstance, and understanding | Saul Williams, , said the shotgun to the head. | love, poetry, spirituality |
You are my life now. | Stephenie Meyer, Twilight | bella, edward-cullen, entertainment, love |
And it came to me then. That we were wonderful traveling companions but in the end no more than lonely lumps of metal in their own separate orbits. From far off they look like beautiful shooting stars, but in reality they're nothing more than prisons, where each of us is locked up alone, going nowhere. When the orbits of these two satellites of ours happened to cross paths, we could be together. Maybe even open our hearts to each other. But that was only for the briefest moment. In the next instant we'd be in absolute solitude. Until we burned up and became nothing. | Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart | aloneness, love |
What was love, really? Flowers, chocolate, and poetry? Or was it something else? Was it being able to finish someone's jokes? Was it having absolute faith that someone was there at your back? Was it knowing someone so well that they instantly understood why you did the things you did—and shared those same beliefs? | Richelle Mead, Last Sacrifice | faith, love |
Every true love and friendship is a story of unexpected transformation. If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we haven't loved enough. | Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love | love |
If I die, I will wait for you, do you understand? No matter how long. I will watch from beyond to make sure you live every year you have to its fullest, and then we’ll have so much to talk about when I see you again… (Bones) | Jeaniene Frost | death, eternity, love, romance, waiting |
Please Mia," he implores. "Don't make me write a song. | Gayle Forman, If I Stay | gayle-forman, if-i-stay, love |
The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying the only thing more impossible than stayin the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving.g was leaving. | Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love | eat, elizabeth-gilbert, love, pray |
We are all the pieces of what we remember. We hold in ourselves the hopes and fears of those who love us. As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss. | Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire | clary-fray, fear, hope, jem-carstairs, life, loss, love, memory, shadowhunters, the-infernal-devices |
I may not always be with you But when we're far apartRemember you will be with meRight inside my heart | Marc Wambolt, Poems from the Heart | family, friendship, inspirational, love, poetry, relationships |
Never love a wild thing, Mr. Bell,' Holly advised him. 'That was Doc's mistake. He was always lugging home wild things. A hawk with a hurt wing. One time it was a full-grown bobcat with a broken leg. But you can't give your heart to a wild thing: the more you do, the stronger they get. Until they're strong enough to run into the woods. Or fly into a tree. Then a taller tree. Then the sky. That's how you'll end up, Mr. Bell. If you let yourself love a wild thing. You'll end up looking at the sky.""She's drunk," Joe Bell informed me. "Moderately," Holly confessed....Holly lifted her martini. "Let's wish the Doc luck, too," she said, touching her glass against mine. "Good luck: and believe me, dearest Doc -- it's better to look at the sky than live there. Such an empty place; so vague. Just a country where the thunder goes and things disappear. | Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's | love, wildness |
Ginny, listen...I can't be involved with you anymore. We've got to stop seeing each other. We can't be together.""It's for some stupid noble reason isn't it?""It's been like...like something out of someone else's life these last few weeks with you. But I can't...we can't...I've got to do things alone now. Voldemort uses people his enemies are close to. He's already used you as bait once, and that was just because you were my best friend's sister. Think how much danger you'll be in if we keep this up. He'll know, he'll find out. He'll try and get me through you.""What if I don't care?""I care. How do you think I'd feel if this was your funeral...and it was my fault... | J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince | death, ginny-weasley, harry-potter, love, voldemort |
Morning without you is a dwindled dawn. | Emily Dickinson | love, morning |
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people. | G.K. Chesterton | enemies, love, neighbors |
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date: Sometimes too hot the eye of heaven shines, And too often is his gold complexion dimm'd: And every fair from fair sometimes declines, By chance or natures changing course untrimm'd; By thy eternal summer shall not fade, Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest; Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou growest: So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this and this gives life to thee. | William Shakespeare, Shakespeare's Sonnets | love, shakespeare, youth |
One thing I do know about intimacy is that there are certain natural laws which govern the sexual experience of two people, and that these laws cannot be budged any more than gravity can be negotiated with. To feel physically comfortable with someone else's body is not a decision you can make. It has very little to do with how two people think or act or talk or even look. The mysterious magnet is either there, buried somewhere deep behind the sternum, or it is not. When it isn't there (as I have learned in the past, with heartbreaking clarity) you can no more force it to exist than a surgeon can force a patient's body to accept a kidney from the wrong donor. My friend Annie says it all comes down to one simple question: "Do you want your belly pressed against this person's belly forever --or not? | Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love | love |
I know that the whole point—the only point—is tofind the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse tolet them go. | Lauren Oliver, Delirium | fight, life, love |
How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode. | W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil | affairs, breakup, life, love, women |
We cultivate love when we allow our most vulnerable and powerful selves to be deeply seen and known, and when we honor the spiritual connection that grows from that offering with trust, respect, kindness and affection.Love is not something we give or get; it is something that we nurture and grow, a connection that can only be cultivated between two people when it exists within each one of them – we can only love others as much as we love ourselves.Shame, blame, disrespect, betrayal, and the withholding of affection damage the roots from which love grows. Love can only survive these injuries if they are acknowledged, healed and rare. | Brené Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are | affection, betrayal, blame, connection, disrespect, love, self, shame, vulnerability |
Let us begin this letter, this prelude to an encounter, formally, as a declaration, in the old-fashioned way: I love you. You do not know me (although you have seen me, smiled at me). I know you (although not so well as I would like. I want to be there when your eyes flutter open in the morning, and you see me, and you smile. Surely this would be paradise enough?). So I do declare myself to you now, with pen set to paper. I declare it again: I love you. | Neil Gaiman | four-letter-word, love |
It's the imperfections that make things beautiful | Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty | awesome, love, we-ll-always-have-summer |
Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other. | Dalai Lama XIV | love |
When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love. | J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince | infatuation, love, love-struck, obsession |
Love is a form of prejudice. You love what you need, you love what makes you feel good, you love what is convenient. How can you say you love one person when there are ten thousand people in the world that you would love more if you ever met them? But you'll never meet them. All right, so we do the best we can. Granted. But we must still realize that love is just the result of a chance encounter. Most people make too much of it. On these grounds a good fuck is not to be entirely scorned. But that's the result of a chance meeting too. You're damned right. Drink up. We'll have another. | Charles Bukowski | love, wisdom |
I don't care if you're black, white, straight, bisexual, gay, lesbian, short, tall, fat, skinny, rich or poor. If you're nice to me, I'll be nice to you. Simple as that. | Robert Michaels | advice, kindness, leadership, love, management, people, respect, success |
One day spent with someone you love can change everything. | Mitch Albom, For One More Day | change, love, time |
His heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon a tide. He heard what her eyes said to him from beneath their cowl and knew that in some dim past, whether in life or revery, he had heard their tale before. | James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | heart, love |
She didn't belong anywhere and she never really belonged to anyone. And everyone else belonged somewhere and to someone. People thought she was too wonderful. But she only wanted to belong to someone. People always thought she was too wonderful to belong to them or that something too wonderful would hurt too much to lose. And that's why she liked him-- because he just thought she was crazy. | C. JoyBell C. | belonging, belonging-to-someone, boy-meets-girl, craziness, crazy, heartwarming, inspirational-love, love, lovers, wonderful |
There is no love sincerer than the love of food. | George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman | food, gluttony, love |
Love is like a brick. You can build a house, or you can sink a dead body. | Lady Gaga | brick, dead, house, humor, lady-gaga, love |
Sleep my little baby-ohSleep until you wakenWhen you wake you'll see the worldIf I'm not mistaken...Kiss a loverDance a measure,Find your nameAnd buried treasure...Face your lifeIts pain, Its pleasure,Leave no path untaken. | Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book | awakening, choice, dance, identity, individuality, life, love, name, pain, pleasure, sleep, treasure |
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together,but do so with all your heart. | Marcus Aurelius, Meditations | fate, love, people |
She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together. | J.D. Salinger | love |
Then, one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...you give them a piece of you. They don't ask for it. They do something dumb one day like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. | Neil Gaiman, The Kindly Ones | independence, interdependence, life, love |
I will not try to convince you to love me, to respect me, to commit to me. I deserve better than that; I AM BETTER THAN THAT...Goodbye. | Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience | breakup, commit, deserve, goodbye, happiness, inspirational, life, love, motivational, relationship, respect |
I envy people that know love. That have someone who takes them as they are. | Jess C. Scott, The Devilin Fey | dark, dark-divine, dark-humor, dark-lover, darkness, desire, emotion, emotional, emotional-plague, emotionally-scared, emotions, envy, gothic, gothic-fiction, gothic-romance, incubus, life, love, lust, paranormal, paranormal-fiction, paranormal-romance, passion, self, succubus, supernatural, supernaturalism, truth, urban-fantasy |
I don't care what you say to me. I care what you share with me. | Santosh Kalwar, Quote Me Everyday | life-lessons, love, poetry, share |
Some people feel like they don't deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past. | Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild | love |
The great thing to remember is that though our feelings come and go God's love for us does not. | C.S. Lewis | god, inspirational, love |
Keep your best wishes, close to your heart and watch what happens | Tony DeLiso, Legacy: The Power Within | abundance, balance, better, book, change, empowerment, expression, freedom, fulfillment, fun, greater, happiness, health, help, hope, improvement, joy, life, love, meditation, money, more, peace, perfect, power, relaxation, self, self-expression, self-help-book, self-improvement-book, self-realization, success, wealth, your |
Ye are Blood of my Blood, and Bone of my Bone,I give ye my Body, that we Two might be One.I give ye my Spirit, 'til our Life shall be Done. | Diana Gabaldon, Outlander | love, marriage, romance |
You teach me now how cruel you've been - cruel and false. Why did you despise me? Why did you betray your own heart, Cathy? I have not one word of comfort. You deserve this. You have killed yourself. Yes, you may kiss me, and cry; and wring out my kisses and tears: they'll blight you - they'll damn you. You loved me - what right had you to leave me? What right - answer me - for the poor fancy you felt for Linton? Because misery, and degradation, and death, and nothing that God or Satan could inflict would have parted us, you, of your own will did it. I have no broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine. So much the worse for me that I am strong. Do I want to live? What kind of living will it be when you - Oh, God! would you like to lie with your soul in the grave? | Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights | betrayal, heartbreak, love |
If you ever looked at me once with what I know is in you, I would be your slave. | Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights | classics, love, obsession |
I care," he said in a trembling voice. "I care so much that I do not know how to tell you without it seeming inconsequential compared to how I feel. Even if I am distant at times and seem as if I do not want to be with you, it is only because this scares me, too. | Aimee Carter, The Goddess Test | god-of-the-underworld, hades, henry, love, relationships |
He's not your prince charming if he doesn't make sure you know that you're his princess. | Demi Lovato | being-loved, life, love, true-love |
Name one hero who was happy."I considered. Heracles went mad and killed his family; Theseus lost his bride and father; Jason's children and new wife were murdered by his old; Bellerophon killed the Chimera but was crippled by the fall from Pegasus' back."You can't." He was sitting up now, leaning forward."I can't.""I know. They never let you be famous AND happy." He lifted an eyebrow. "I'll tell you a secret.""Tell me." I loved it when he was like this."I'm going to be the first." He took my palm and held it to his. "Swear it.""Why me?""Because you're the reason. Swear it.""I swear it," I said, lost in the high color of his cheeks, the flame in his eyes."I swear it," he echoed.We sat like that a moment, hands touching. He grinned."I feel like I could eat the world raw. | Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles | fame, happiness, heroes, love, mythology, oaths |
Now very much against her will, she thought of the way Jace had looked at her then, the blaze of faith in his eyes, his belief in her. He had always thought she was strong. He had showed it in everything he did, in every look and every touch. Simon had faith in her too, yet when he'd held her, it had been as if she were something fragile, something made of delicate glass. But Jace had held her with all the strength he had, never wondering if she could take it--he'd known she was as strong has he was. | Cassandra Clare, City of Glass | clary-fray, faith, jace-wayland, love, strength |
In this world, it is too common for people to search for someone to lose themselves in. But I am already lost. I will look for someone to find myself in. | C. JoyBell C. | inspirational-life, inspirational-love, inspirational-love-quotes, inspiring, lost, love, lovers, searching-and-finding |