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How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: I need this, I need someone to pour myself into.
Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
love, yearning
She wasnt exactly sure when it happened. Or even when it started. All she knew for sure was that right here and now, she was falling hard and she could only pray that he was feeling the same way.
Nicholas Sparks, Safe Haven
falling-in-love, love, nicholas-sparks, safe-haven, unexpected-love
If I were a tree, I would have no reason to love a human.
Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys
deep-thoughts, humans, love, maggie-stiefvater, nature, the-raven-boys, trees
The story of life is quicker than the wink of an eye, the story of love is hello and goodbye...until we meet again
Jimi Hendrix
eye, goodbye, hello, life, love, song-lyrics
Christian, you are the state lottery, the cure for cancer, and the three wishes from Aladdin's lamp all rolled into one
E.L. James, Fifty Shades Freed
love
Each day brings new opportunities, allowing you to constantly live with love—be there for others—bring a little light into someone's day. Be grateful and live each day to the fullest.
Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
gratitude, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, inspire, inspiring, life, life-and-living, life-lessons, life-quotes, light, live-life-to-the-fullest, living, love, motivation, motivational, optimism, optimistic, positive, positive-affirmation, positive-life, positive-thinking
I knew they would kill me when they found out, but…” He struggled for words, releasing a sharp breath. “I think I realized that I would rather die because I betrayed them, than live because I betrayed you.
Marissa Meyer, Scarlet
betrayal, choice, emotions, friendship, love, scarlet, wolf
He suddenly recalled from Plato's Symposium: People were hermaphrodites until God split then in two, and now all the halves wander the world over seeking one another. Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.
Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
love, philosophy
If I know what love is, it is because of you.
Hermann Hesse
love
Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you.
Karl Lagerfeld
altruism, care, caring, designer, ego, happiness, life, love, nobody, self-love, self-sacrifice, selfish, wisdom
To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
love
Where there is great love, there are always miracles.
Willa Cather
love
Did I really want to stay on this road longer, knowing it was only going to end in devastation?
Becca Fitzpatrick, Crescendo
heartbreak, hurt, love, nora, nora-grey, patch
You never knew the last time you were seeing someone. You didn't know when the last argument happened, or the last time you had sex, or the last time you looked into their eyes and thanked God they were in your life.After they were gone?That was all you thought about.Day and night.
J.R. Ward, Lover Mine
life, loss, love, shit-happens, suck-it-up
America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves. To quote the American humorist Kin Hubbard, 'It ain’t no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.' It is in fact a crime for an American to be poor, even though America is a nation of poor. Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power and gold. No such tales are told by the American poor. They mock themselves and glorify their betters. The meanest eating or drinking establishment, owned by a man who is himself poor, is very likely to have a sign on its wall asking this cruel question: 'if you’re so smart, why ain’t you rich?' There will also be an American flag no larger than a child’s hand – glued to a lollipop stick and flying from the cash register.Americans, like human beings everywhere, believe many things that are obviously untrue. Their most destructive untruth is that it is very easy for any American to make money. They will not acknowledge how in fact hard money is to come by, and, therefore, those who have no money blame and blame and blame themselves. This inward blame has been a treasure for the rich and powerful, who have had to do less for their poor, publicly and privately, than any other ruling class since, say Napoleonic times. Many novelties have come from America. The most startling of these, a thing without precedent, is a mass of undignified poor. They do not love one another because they do not love themselves.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Slaughterhouse-Five
america, disgrace, inequality, love, poor
I have seen the best of you, and the worst of you, and I choose both.
Sarah Kay
best, choice, love, worst, you
One of the things that makes me who I am is the loyalty I have to people I hold close to my heart.
Simone Elkeles, Perfect Chemistry
fidelity, love
There are memories that time does not erase... Forever does not make loss forgettable, only bearable.
Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire
love, memories, sacrifice, time
Love is the strangest, most illogical thing in the world.
Jennifer E. Smith, The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight
love
I don't love you anymore", she whispered. "I don't love you at all." His throat closed. "It's all right, sweetheart. I love you enough for both of us.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Kiss an Angel
love
As mothers and daughters, we are connected with one another. My mother is the bones of my spine, keeping me straight and true. She is my blood, making sure it runs rich and strong. She is the beating of my heart. I cannot now imagine a life without her.
Kristin Hannah, Summer Island
daughters, family, love, mothers
Weeping is not the same thing as crying. It takes your whole body to weep, and when it's over, you feel like you don't have any bones left to hold you up.
Sarah Ockler, Twenty Boy Summer
crying, death, lost, love, tragedy, weeping
In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun.
Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
love
My parents danced together, her head on his chest. Both had their eyes closed. They seemed so perfectly content. If you can find someone like that, someone who you can hold and close your eyes to the world with, then you're lucky. Even if it only lasts for a minute or a day. The image of them gently swaying to the music is how I picture love in my mind even after all these years.
Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind
love
And now I know why they invented words for love, why they had to: It's the only thing that can come close to describing what I feel in that moment, the baffling mixture of pain and pleasure and fear and joy, all running sharply through me at once.
Lauren Oliver, Delirium
love
Sometimes it takes a heartbreak to shake us awake & help us see we are worth so much more than we're settling for.
Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
breakups, dating, heartbreak, holding-out-for-the-best, letting-go, love, moving-on, not-settling, positive-thinking, relationships, settling, the-single-woman
To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
G.K. Chesterton
faith, forgiveness, hope, inspirational, love
Yeah, well," I say, "I left Abnegation because I wasn't selfless enough, no matter how hard I tried to be.""That's not entirely true." He smiles at me. "That girl who let someone throw knives at her to spare a friend, who hit my dad with a belt to protect me-that selfless girl, that's not you?"..."You've been paying close attention, haven't you?""I like to observe people/""Maybe you were cut out for Candor, Four, because you're a terrible liar.
Veronica Roth, Divergent
cute, divergent, four, love, tobias, tris-prior, veronica-roth
They're in love. Fuck the war.
Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow
love, war
Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star...
E.E. Cummings
love
How far would you go to keep the hope of love alive?
Nicholas Sparks, The Choice
hope, love, nicholas, nicholas-sparks, sparks, the-choice
I wish you could be kissed, Jane,' he said. 'Because I would beg just one off you. Under all this.' He flailed an arm toward the stars.
Maggie Stiefvater, The Dream Thieves
blue, feelings, gansey, kiss, love
You’ll never be able to find yourself if you’re lost in someone else.
Colleen Hoover, November 9
love, self-discovery
Do not swear by the moon, for she changes constantly. then your love would also change.
William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
love, moon, romeo-nad-juliet
There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven:a time to be born and a time to die,a time to plant and a time to uproot,a time to kill and a time to heal,a time to tear down and a time to build,a time to weep and a time to laugh,a time to mourn and a time to dance,a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,a time to embrace and a time to refrain,a time to search and a time to give up,a time to keep and a time to throw away,a time to tear and a time to mend,a time to be silent and a time to speak,a time to love and a time to hate,a time for war and a time for peace.(Ecclesiastes 3:1-8, NIV)
Anonymous, Study Bible: NIV
ecclesiastes, life, love, romance, scripture, youth
It's the kind of kiss that inspires stars to climb into the sky and light up the world.
Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me
fangirling, juliette-miller, kiss, light, love, stars, warner
In this part of the story I am the one whodies, the only one, and I will die of love because I love you,because I love you, Love, in fire and in blood.
Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets
devotion, love
You are my heart, my life, my entire existence." -Ash
Julie Kagawa, The Iron Queen
ash, iron-fey-trilogy, julie-kagawa, love
True love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops.
William Goldman, The Princess Bride
cough-drops, love, true-love
Maybe I was destined to forever fall in love with people I couldn’t have. Maybe there’s a whole assortment of impossible people waiting for me to find them. Waiting to make me feel the same impossibility over and over again.
Carol Rifka Brunt, Tell the Wolves I'm Home
impossible, love, love-hurts, unrequited-love
Woman is sacred the woman one loves is holy.
Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
love, women, worship
There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.
William S. Burroughs
love, risk
People should fall in love with their eyes closed.
Andy Warhol
love
Actually that’s my secret — I can’t even talk about you to anybody because I don’t want any more people to know how wonderful you are.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night
love
If you don't receive love from the ones who are meant to love you, you will never stop looking for it.
Robert Goolrick, The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life
longing, love, sad, searching, unrequited-love
You’re just another story I can’t tell anymore.
pleasefindthis, I Wrote This For You
break-ups, endings, forgetting-the-past, love, past, relationships
There is nothing that is going to make people hate you more, and love you more, than telling the truth.
Stefan Molyneux
freedomain-radio, love, stefan-molyneux, truth
A fit, healthy body—that is the best fashion statement
Jess C. Scott
beauty, body, body-image, culture, dance, dancer, desire, fashion, fitness, food, food-for-thought, friendship, funny, girl, health, healthy, hip-hop, honesty, humor, humour, imagination, individuality, life, love, lust-for-life, music, novel, passion, reality, relationships, self, sex, truth, wisdom, young, young-adult, young-adult-fiction, young-adult-literature, young-adult-novels, young-adults, youth
I ask the impossible: love me forever.Love me when all desire is gone.Love me with the single mindedness of a monk.When the world in its entirety,and all that you hold sacred advise youagainst it: love me still more.When rage fills you and has no name: love me.When each step from your door to our job tires you--love me; and from job to home again, love me, love me.Love me when you're bored--when every woman you see is more beautiful than the last,or more pathetic, love me as you always have:not as admirer or judge, but withthe compassion you save for yourselfin your solitude.Love me as you relish your loneliness,the anticipation of your death,mysteries of the flesh, as it tears and mends.Love me as your most treasured childhood memory--and if there is none to recall--imagine one, place me there with you.Love me withered as you loved me new.Love me as if I were forever--and I, will make the impossiblea simple act,by loving you, loving you as I do
Ana Castillo, I Ask the Impossible
love
Only love of a good woman will make a man question every choice, every action. Only love makes a warrior hesitate for fear that his lady will find him cruel. Only love makes a man both the best he will ever be, and the weakest. Sometimes all in the same moment. -Wicked
Laurell K. Hamilton
laurell-k-hamilton, love, romance, the-harlequin, true-love, wicked
When you forgive, you love. And when you love, God’s light shines upon you.
Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild
forgiveness, love
But when I do feel all the strength go out of me, and I fall to my knees beside the table and I think I cry, then, or at least I want to, and everything inside me screams for just one more kiss, one more word, one more glance, one more.
Veronica Roth, Allegiant
grief, love, pain, sadness
You’ve changed me forever. And I’ll never forget you.
Kiera Cass, The Elite
america, change, goodbye, love, maxon, relationship, sad, the-elite, the-selection
Are you upset little friend? Have you been lying awake worrying? Well, don't worry...I'm here. The flood waters will recede, the famine will end, the sun will shine tomorrow, and I will always be here to take care of you.
Charles M. Schulz
faith, friendship, loneliness, love
And I've fallen.So hard.I've hit the ground. Gone right through it. Never in my life have I felt this. Nothing like this. I've felt shame and cowardice, weakness and strength. I've known terror and indifference, self-hate and general disgust. I've seen things that cannot be unseen.And yet I've known nothing like this terrible, horrible, paralyzing feeling. I feel crippled. Desperate and out of control. And it keeps getting worse. Every day I feel sick. Empty and somehow aching.Love is a heartless bastard.
Tahereh Mafi, Destroy Me
love, warner
The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.
Johnny Depp
babies, dogs, love
My heart only ever had one thought, one want. One need. Despite all, in spite of all...All my heart has ever wanted is you.
Stephanie Laurens, The Edge of Desire
adoration, dream, longing, love, need, romance, yearning
Choose your love. Love your choice.
Thomas S. Monson
choices, love
The only love that I really believe in is a mother’s love for her children.
Karl Lagerfeld
children, emotion, feelings, kids, love, mom, mother
As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.
W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence
love, men, women
Love is scary: it changes it can go away. That's the part of the risk. I don't want to be scared anymore.
Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before
be-brave, embrace-change, love, take-the-risk
Then I discovered that being related is no guarantee of love!
Stieg Larsson, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
family, life, life-lessons, love
Damn you, spoilt creature; I shan’t make you love me any the more by giving myself away like this.
Vita Sackville-West, The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf
correspondence, love, writers
Love is a serious mental disease.
Plato, Phaedrus
love
Life is funny. Things change, people change, but you will always be you, so stay true to yourself and never sacrifice who you are for anyone.
Zayn Malik
cute, inspirational, life, love, one-direction, sacrifice
Sometimes you want to say, “I love you, but…”Yet the “but” takes away the ‘I love you’. In love their are no ‘buts’ or ‘if’s’ or ‘when’. It’s just there, and always. No beginning, no end. It’s the condition-less state of the heart. Not a feeling that comes and goes at the whim of the emotions. It is there in our heart, a part of our heart…eventually grafting itself into each limb and cell of our bodies. Love changes our brain, the way we move and talk. Love lives in our spirit and graces us with its presence each day, until death.To say “I love you, but….” is to say, “I did not love you at all”.I say this to you now: I love you, with no beginning, no end. I love you as you have become an extra necessary organ in my body. I love you as only a girl could love a boy. Without fear. Without expectations. Wanting nothing in return, except that you allow me to keep you here in my heart, that I may always know your strength, your eyes, and your spirit that gave me freedom and let me fly.
Coco J. Ginger
breakup, breakups, friendship, i-love-him, i-love-you, jamie-weise, love, love-affair, love-and-romance, love-story, lovers, passion, passions, unconditional
some moments are nice, some arenicer, some are even worthwritingabout.
Charles Bukowski, War All the Time
bukowski, love, moments, nice, poetry, war-all-the-time, writing
I've never minded it," he went on. "Being lost, that is. I had always thought one could not truly be lost if one knew one's own heart. But I fear I may be lost without knowing yours.
Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince
feelings, heart, love
There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison
Jane Austen, Persuasion
feelings, hearts, love, waiting
You're gorgeous, you old hag, and if I could give you just one gift ever for the rest of your life it would be this. Confidence. It would be the gift of confidence. Either that or a scented candle
David Nicholls, One Day
gifts, love, self-confidence
Fear doesn't shut you down; it wakes you up. I've seen it. It's fascinating." He releases me but doesn't pull away, his hand grazing my jaw, my neck. "Sometimes I just...want to see it again. Want to see you awake.
Veronica Roth, Divergent
inspirational, love
Don't go far off, not even for a day,because I don't know how to say it - a day is longand I will be waiting for you, as inan empty station when the trains areparked off somewhere else, asleep.Don't leave me, even for an hour, because thenthe little drops of anguish will all run together,the smoke that roams looking for a home will driftinto me, choking my lost heart.Oh, may your silhouette never dissolveon the beach, may your eyelids never flutterinto the empty distance. Don't LEAVE me fora second, my dearest, because in that moment you'llhave gone so far I'll wander mazilyover all the earth, asking, will youcome back? Will you leave me here, dying?
Pablo Neruda
love, poetry, spanish
Do I love you because you're beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you?
Richard Rodgers, Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella
adoration, beauty, love
For one human being to love another human being: that is perhaps the most difficult task that has been given to us, the ultimate, the final problem and proof, the work for which all other work is merely preparation.
Rainer Maria Rilke, The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke
love
It does good to no woman to be flattered [by a man] who does not intend to marry her; and it is madness in all women to let a secret love kindle within them, which, if unreturned and unknown, must devour the life that feeds it; and, if discovered and responded to, must lead, ignis-fatuus-like, into miry wilds whence there is no extrication.
Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
feelings, flattery, love, secret-love, sense, unavowed-love, vulnerability, women
In my rush, I hadn’t tied my shoelaces. Noah was now tying them for me. He looked up at me through his dark fringe of lashes and smiled. The expression on his face melted me completely. I knew I had the goofiest grin plastered on my lips, and didn’t care. “There,” he said as he finished tying the laces on my left shoe. “Now you won’t fall.”Too late.
Michelle Hodkin, The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer
adorable, couples, love, mara-dyer, noah-shaw, ya
Everything with me is either worship and passion or pity and understanding. I hate rarely, though when I hate, I hate murderously. For example now, I hate the bank and everything connected with it. I also hate Dutch paintings, penis-sucking, parties, and cold rainy weather. But I am much more preoccupied with loving.
Anaïs Nin, Henry and June: From "A Journal of Love"--The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin
fellatio, hate, hatred, love, oral-sex, penis-sucking
If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them.
Michael Bassey Johnson, The Infinity Sign
affair, assurance, autonomy, believe-in-yourself, breakup, composure, detachment, development, disappearance, distance, escape, fade, freedom, hide, hideout, impression, independence, leg-pulling, let-go, letting-go, liberty, love, michael-bassey-johnson, neutrality, out-of-view, poise, prove, respect, self-control, self-reliance, self-rule, separation, single, sovereignty, survival, test, unconventional, unconventionality, vanish
Love is not loveWhich alters when it alteration finds,Or bends with the remover to remove.O no, it is an ever-fixed markThat looks on tempests and is never shaken;It is the star to every wand'ring bark,Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken."
William Shakespeare, Shakespeare's Sonnets
constancy, love, poetry, sacrifice
I felt like an animal, and animals don’t know sin, do they?
Jess C. Scott, Wicked Lovely
body, cool, desire, erotic, erotica, funny, girl, honesty, humor, humour, incest, love, lust, passion, relationships, romance, sex, sexuality, sister, taboo, truth, wisdom
When two people meet and fall in love, there's a sudden rush of magic. Magic is just naturally present then. We tend to feed on that gratuitous magic without striving to make any more. One day we wake up and find that the magic is gone. We hustle to get it back, but by then it's usually too late, we've used it up. What we have to do is work like hell at making additional magic right from the start. It's hard work, but if we can remember to do it, we greatly improve our chances of making love stay.
Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker
love, magic
You don’t take away my choices. You are my choice.
Colleen Houck
love, romance
My soul sees its equal in you.
Renee Ahdieh, The Wrath and the Dawn
khalid, love, shahrzard
Out of my thoughts! You are part of my existence, part of myself. You have been in every line I have ever read, since I first came here, the rough common boy whose poor heart you wounded even then. You have been in every prospect I have ever seen since – on the river, on the sails of the ships, on the marshes, in the clouds, in the light, in the darkness, in the wind, in the woods, in the sea, in the streets. You have been the embodiment of every graceful fancy that my mind has ever become acquainted with. The stones of which the strongest London buildings are made, are not more real, or more impossible to displace with your hands, than your presence and influence have been to me, there and everywhere, and will be. Estella, to the last hour of my life, you cannot choose but remain part of my character, part of the little good in me, part of the evil. But, in this separation I associate you only with the good, and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you must have done me far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may. O God bless you, God forgive you!
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
love
Love is being honest with yourself at all timesbeing honest with the other person at all timestelling, listening, respecting the truthand never pretendingLove is the source of reality
Susan Polis Schutz
love
I can't set my hopes too high,'Cause every hello ends with a goodbye.
Demi Lovato
catch-me, demi-lovato, love, sad, sing
True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
love
When you love someone, its never over. You move on, because you have to but you take them with you in your heart
Elizabeth Chandler, Kissed by an Angel/The Power of Love/Soulmates
love
Forgiveness is the name of love practiced among people who love poorly. The hard truth is that all people love poorly. We need to forgive and be forgiven every day, every hour increasingly. That is the great work of love among the fellowship of the weak that is the human family.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
forgiveness, love
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
Ingrid Bergman
kiss, love, nature, trick, words
Augustus," I said. "Really. You don't have to do this.""Sure I do," he said. "I found my Wish.""God, you're the best," I told him."I bet you say that to all the boys who finance your international travel," he answered.
John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
love, travel, wish
I want love to conquer all. But love can't conquer anything. It can't do anything on it's own.It relies on us to do the conquering on its behalf.
David Levithan, Every Day
love
Isn't it funny how the memories you cherish before a breakup can become your worst enemies afterwards? The thoughts you loved to think about, the memories you wanted to hold up to the light and view from every angle--it suddenly seems a lot safer to lock them in a box, far from the light of day and throw away the key. It's not an act of bitterness. It's an act if self-preservation. It's not always a bad idea to stay behind the window and look out at life instead, is it?
Ally Condie, First Day
allyson-braithwaite-condie, box, breakup, church, day, first, humor, lockup, love, memories, novel, pain, religion, romance
I find the best way to love someone is not to change them, but instead, help them reveal the greatest version of themselves.
Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
be-yourself, change, choices, compassion, greatest-version, happiness, helping, love, relationships, success
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of the Imagination.
John Keats
imagination, love, truth
Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,Enwrought with golden and silver light,The blue and the dim and the dark clothsOf night and light and the half light,I would spread the cloths under your feet:But I, being poor, have only my dreams;I have spread my dreams under your feet;Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
W.B. Yeats, The Wind Among the Reeds
dreams, love, money
Of all our games, love's play is the only one which threatens to unsettle the soul...
Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian
love
I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul.
Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
dreams, finality, love, soul
This is what happened in love. One of you cried a lot and then both of you grew sarcastic.
Lorrie Moore, Like Life
love, relationships, sarcasm
Ah," she cried, "you look so cool." Their eyes met, and they stared together at each other, alone in space. With an effort she glanced down at the table.You always look so cool," she repeated.She had told him that she loved him, and Tom Buchanan saw.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
betrayal, love