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5d626d0 "Why?" she whispered. "Why should I dance with you?" "Because I love you. Because I love you so much I'm willing to do whatever it takes to make it go differently this time."... "Because we should be a married couple, because I never wanted to not be married to you. Because all these men out here dancing with their wives can't possibly love them as much as I love you. Because for me, there is only one woman, and I'm sorry to break it to you, but you're it." husband husbands love wife wives Erin McCarthy
94fa997 "Love me?" Madeline asked with a faint smile. "It used to be love." He brushed his lips over her closed eyelids. "Now there's no word for it." "You once told me that you thought love was a weakness." "I was wrong," he whispered, kissing the corners of her mouth. "I've discovered it's my only strength." love romance Lisa Kleypas
7ddcd5c I'd endure every second of it over again so I could find you. feysand love rhysand Sarah J. Maas
f274e1a And at the place where time stands still, one sees lovers kissing in the shadows of buildings, in a frozen embrace that will never let go. The loved one will never take his arms from where they are now, will never give back the bracelet of memories, will never journey afar from his lover, will never place himself in danger of self-sacrifice, will never fail to show his love, will never become jealous, will never fall in love with someone else, will never lose the passion of this instant of time. kissing love lovers time Alan Lightman
99bbada Mom had the kind of love for her that you could feel, like it was part of the atmosphere love mothers Peter Abrahams
13ead04 "Immanuel, God with us-that He would leave the spiritual realm and be present in the flesh and blood in such an act of humility is a staggering notion. As it is, He willingly gave His blood, in the flesh, so that others might find life, for it is written: "He did not come by water only, but by blood," and "Without the shedding of blood there is no remission." Now blood is required to give new life to the dead. I tell you, He did not give only a small amount to satisfy this requirement. He was beaten and crushed and pierced until that blood flowed like a river for the sake of love. It was for love, not religion, that He died. There is a fountain filled with blood drawn from Immanuel's veins. And those plunged beneath that watery grave to drink of His blood will never be the same." christian jesus love Ted Dekker
7edfd83 "The vast desire and capacity a woman has for intimate relationships tells us of God's vast desire and capacity for intimate relationships. In fact, this may be The most important thing we ever learn about God--the He yearns for relationship with us. "Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God" (John 17:3). The whole story of the Bible is a love story between God and His people. He yearns for us. He cares. He has a tender heart." love relationships Stasi Eldredge
91cb192 Everything's a gamble, love most of all. love Tess Gerritsen
87d6734 No, I don't think I could fall in love with him, handsome though he is, because I don't accept any of that huff he gives me about my great beauty and all that. I'd have to trust a man's words before I could love him. I think. love relationships Sherwood Smith
bd73414 I would far rather have two or three lilies of the valley gathered for me by a person I like, than the most expensive bouquet that could be bought! elizabeth-gaskell flowers friends lily-of-the-valley love molly-gibson people romance wives-and-daughters Elizabeth Gaskell
e6cb21b "Paul D did not answer because she didn't expect or want him to, but he did know what she meant. Listening to the doves in Alfred, Georgia, and having neither the right nor the permission to enjoy it because in that place mist, doves, sunlight, copper dirt, moon - everything belonged to the men who had the guns. Little men, some of them, big men too, each one of whom he could snap like a twig if he wanted to. Men who knew that their manhood lay in their guns and were not even embarrassed by the knowledge that without fox would laugh at them. And these "men" who made even vixen laugh could, if you let them, stop you from hearing doves or loving moonlight. So you protected yourself and loved small. Picked the tiniest stars out of the sky to own; lay down with head twisted in order to see the loved one over the rim of the trench before you slept. Stole shy glances at her between the trees at chain-up. Glass blades, salamanders, spiders, woodpeckers, beetles, a kingdom of ants. Anything bigger wouldn't do. A woman, a child, a brother - a big love like that would split you wide open in Alfred, Georgia. He knew exactly what she meant: to get to a place where you could love anything you chose - not to need permission for desire - well now, THAT was freedom." love slavery Toni Morrison
86e1584 Except for the sound of the rain, on the road, on the roofs, on the umbrella, there was absolute silence: only the dying moan of the sirens continued for a moment or two to vibrate within the ear. It seemed to Scobie later that this was the ultimate border he had reached in happiness: being in darkness, alone, with the rain falling, without love or pity. love pity sierra-leone Graham Greene
29af0de Women are often belittled for trying to resurrect these men and bring them back to life and to love. They are in a world that would be even more alienated and violent if caring women did not do the work of teaching men who have lost touch with themselves how to love again. This labor of love is futile only when the men in question refuse to awaken, refuse growth. At this point it is a gesture of self-love for women to break their commitment and move on. futility growth labor life love resurrection self-love violence Bell Hooks
54e82e4 Stop rushing me. I want to take my time falling in love with you. love rush Ai Yazawa
78bd5ec Fool! You may hate me...But I...I haven't stopped thinking of you for a single day. love romantic Rumiko Takahashi
2877447 ...one can't avoid the storms and calamities of life, but one can at least find the right partner to face them with. life love partner problems storms Lisa Kleypas
4be091f You and your sister are very dear to each other. To show your regard, you give each other lovely bouquets of lies. lies love Holly Black
d676360 There were six dolls to be taken up and dressed every morning, for Beth was a child still, and loved her pets as well as ever. Not one whole or handsome one among them; all were outcasts till Beth took them in; for, when her sisters outgrew these idols, they passed to her.... Beth cherished them all the more tenderly for that very reason, and set up a hospital for infirm dolls. No pins were ever stuck into their cotton vitals; no harsh words or blows were ever given them; no neglect ever saddened the heart of the most repulsive: but all were fed and clothed, nursed and caressed, with an affection which never failed. love Louisa May Alcott
0ff58dc Your life might be easier if you were. A fool for love is happier than a Dog with a heart that's all leather. love Tamora Pierce
3674b05 Love gives you eyes. christianity eyes inspirational jesus-shock love philosophy spirituality theology Peter Kreeft
3b8ece1 "Must you question everything?" "Aye," I say. "It delights me to annoy you whenever possible." couples fae kairan love Elizabeth May
1195e22 If only I can find him... the man who will be intelligent, yet physically magnetic and personable. If I can offer that combination, why shouldn't I expect it in a man? love man Sylvia Plath
4cc730d I realized that the longing for art, like the longing for love, is a malady that blinds us, and makes us forget the things we already know, obscuring reality. longing love reality Orhan Pamuk
37ef712 All Rowan now had to offer his queen were the strength of his sword, the depth of his magic, and the loyalty of his heart. Such things did not win wars. love rowan-whitethorn Sarah J. Maas
e404f64 "Each time I saw you, I felt like . . . I felt like I knew you a little bit better. I never talked to you but seeing you always smiling or laughing . . . or being peaceful . . ." He shook his head, and my heart spasmed. "There's something about that . . . it drew me in, Calla. Fuck. I fell for you before you even knew my name." jax love stay-with-me Jennifer L. Armentrout
0335731 And yet, because I love thee, I obtain From that same love this vindicating grace, To live on still in love, and yet in vain love unrequited-love Elizabeth Barrett Browning
8274566 Never in his life had Edward been cradled like a baby. Abilene had not done it. Nor had Nellie. And most certainly, Bull had not. It was a singular sensation to be held so gently and yet so fiercely, to be stared down at with so much love. Edward felt the whole of his china body flood with warmth. (page 128) love touch Kate DiCamillo
97abbca The best thing to do if you start thinking such things (falling in love) is to lie down and wait for it to pass. It always does. love reno Anne Stuart
56288bc It is far. But there is no journey upon this earth that a man may not make if he sets his heart to it. There is nothing, Umbopa, that he cannot do, there are no mountains he may not climb, there are no deserts he cannot cross; save a mountain and a a desert of which you are spared the knowledge, if love leads him and he holds his life in his hand counting it as nothing, ready to keep it or to lose it as Providence may order. love perseverance providence quest H. Rider Haggard
a6d8d76 Sometimes I believe that love dies but hope springs eternal. Sometimes I believe that hope dies but love springs eternal. Sometimes I believe that sex plus guilt equals love, and sometimes I believe that sex plus guilt equals good sex. Sometimes I believe that love is as natural as the tides, and sometimes I believe that love is an act of will. Sometimes I believe that some people are better at love than others, and sometimes I believe that everyone is faking it. Sometimes I believe that love is essential, and sometimes I believe that only reason love is essential is that otherwise you spend all your time looking for it. love poetic romantic Nora Ephron
096a2a1 "And it's deadly to us. We can inspire lust, but it's just a shadow. An illusion. Love is a dangerous force." He shook his head. "Love killed the dinosaurs, man." I'm pretty sure a meteor killed the dinosaurs, Thomas." He shrugged. "There's a theory making the rounds now that when the meteor hit it only killed off the big stuff. That there were plenty of smaller reptiles running around, about the same size as all the mammals at the time. The reptiles should have regained their position eventually, but they didn't, because the mammals could feel love. They could be utterly, even irrationally devoted to their mates and their offspring. It made them more likely to survive. The lizards couldn't do that. The meteor hit gave the mammals their shot, but it was love that turned the tide." love thomas-raith Jim Butcher
3dead5b "I can hear our hearts breaking." A tear wets my fingertips, his tears, and his other hand encases my face, the way mine does him. His lips nearly skim mine. "I'll shield your ears from the sound of heartbreak." heartache love rose-calloway Krista Ritchie
654ec10 "What is it like when you lose someone you love?" Jane asked. "You die, too. And you wait around for your body to catch up." jane love mourning sad John Scalzi
3b983c9 "One of Renee's friends asked her, "Does your boyfriend wear glasses?" She said, "No, he wears a Walkman." humor love music music-lover walkman Rob Sheffield
b006460 Love is a temporary madness, it erupts like volcanoes and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being in love, which any fool can do. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Those that truly love have roots that grow towards each other underground, and, when all the pretty blossoms have fallen from their branches, they find that they are one tree and not two. love madness movies Louis de Bernières
a45ec7e they love their hair because they're not smart enough to love anything more interesting funny hair love John Green
3bb29de "She shook off his grip. "I am what I am, and I don't particularly care what you think of me." "Well, I care what you think of me. I care enough that I stayed at this disgusting party for you. And I care enough that I'd attend a thousand more like it so I can spend a few hours with you when you aren't looking at me like I'M not worth the dirt beneath your shoes." celaena-sardothien cute cute-moments love quarrel sam-cortland Sarah J. Maas
bee5f61 You live on - in the hearts of everyone you have touched and nurtured while you were here...Death ends life, not a relationship. life love relationships Mitch Albom
6b56640 There was both love and despair in his voice. He was truly handicapped when it came to emotions, and falling in love hadn't changed that... jr-ward love vishous J.R. Ward
b0c92b3 Since you think it my duty, Mr. Farebrother, I will tell you that I have too strong a feeling for Fred to give him up for any one else. I should never be quite happy if I thought he was unhappy for the loss of me. It has taken such deep root in me--my gratitude to him for always loving me best, and minding so much if I hurt myself, from the time when we were very little. I cannot imagine any new feeling coming to make that weaker. love George Eliot
5c59454 Both men and women today see marriage not as a way of creating character and community but as a way to reach personal life goals. They are looking for a marriage partner who will 'fulfill their emotional, sexual, and spiritual desires.' And that creates an extreme idealism that in turn leads to a deep pessimism that you will ever find the right person to marry. love marriage relationships Timothy Keller
a506762 "Really love him, I mean," Geilie persisted. "Not just to bed him; I know you want that, and he does too. They all do. But do you love him?" Did I love him? Beyond the urges of the flesh? The hole had the dark anonymity of the confessional, and a soul on the verge of death had no time for lies. "Yes," I said, and laid my head back on my knees. It was silent in the hole for some time, and I hovered once more on the verge of sleep, when I heard her speak once more, as though to herself. "So it's possible," she said thoughtfully." geilie love Diana Gabaldon
f5927c8 I think that to find out what love is really like, one must first make a mistake and then put it right. love Leo Tolstoy
5c66a0a It seemed as if some subtle current of recognition had passed between them... not as if they had met before... but as if they had come close several times until finally an impatient Fate had forced their paths to intersect. love romance romance-novels Lisa Kleypas
530d143 "I, answering in the end, began: 'Alas, fate love sorrow Dante Alighieri
e9faf43 she kissed him with all the aching longing that being this close to him evoked; she kissed him in all the ways he had ever kissed her, feeling faint with joy when he began to kiss her back, his mouth moving with fierce tenderness, then opening with fiery demand over hers, until their breaths were mingled gasps, and they were straining to one another. judith-mcnaught love whitney whitney-my-love Judith McNaught
64db2cd He was a different Edward than the one I had known. And I felt all the more besotted by him. It would cause me physical pain to be separated from him now. edward love stupid-lamb Stephenie Meyer
975d755 But you are not your bank account, or your ambition. You're not the cold clay lump you leave behind when you die. You're not your collection of walking personality disorders. You are Spirit, you are love, and even though it is hard to believe sometimes, you are free. You're here to love, and be loved, freely. If you find out next week that you are terminally ill - and we're all terminally ill on this bus - what will matter are memories of beauty, that people loved you, and that you loved them. freedom life love you Anne Lamott
2bfed29 "When you are young, you think it's going to be solved by love. But it never is. Being close -- as close as you can get -- to another person only makes clear that impassable distance between you." [...] "I don't know. If being in love only made people more lonely, why would everyone want it so much?" "Because of the illusion. You fall in love, it's intoxicating, and for a little while you feel like you've actually become one with the other person. Merged souls, and so on. You thing you'll never be lonely again. Only it doesn't last and soon you realize you can only get so close, and you end up brutally disappointed, more alone that ever, because the illusion - the hope you'd held on to all those years - has been shattered." [...] "But see, the incredible thing about people is that we forget." Ray continued. "Time passes and somehow the hope creeps back and sooner or later someone else comes along and we think this is the one. And the whole thing starts all over again. We go through our lives like that, and either we just accept the lesser relationship - it may not be total understanding, but it's pretty good - or we keep trying for that perfect union, trying and failing, leaving behind us a trail of broken hearts, our own included. In the end, we die as alone as we were born, having struggled to understand others, to make ourselves understood, but having failed in what we once imagined was possible." love Nicole Krauss
db9de52 That's the problem with best friends. Sometimes they know you better than you know yourself. book books friends friendship fun funny gossip-girl happy knowledge life love quote quotes Cecily von Ziegesar
3fdc02a This is what a woman is: unadorned, after children and work and age, and experience-these are the marks of living. love women-s-strength Zadie Smith
c2f8fb8 if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane. aaa hurricane life love qoute rain reality she woman John Green
ae02a57 "Man up?" He sat back in a lazy, arrogant sprawl, but the coiled tension was in every muscle in his body. "It's a good thing I love you or I'd find that particularly insulting." alex love Jennifer L. Armentrout
fdae252 I'll have no husband, if you be not he. love marriage William Shakespeare
b175e05 The disgraced Usurer Yankel D took the baby girl home that evening... He made a bed of crumpled newspaper in a deep baking pan and gently tucked it in the oven, so that she wouldn't be disturbed by the noise of the small falls outside... When he pulled her out to feed her or just hold her, her body was tattooed with the newsprint... Sometimes he would rock her to sleep in his arms, and read her left to right, and know everything he needed to know about the world. If it wasn't written on her, it wasn't important to him. life love Jonathan Safran Foer
c1a431b DON PEDRO Come, lady, come; you have lost the heart of Signior Benedick. BEATRICE Indeed, my lord, he lent it me awhile; and I gave him use for it, a double heart for his single one: marry, once before he won it of me with false dice, therefore your grace may well say I have lost it. DON PEDRO You have put him down, lady, you have put him down. BEATRICE So I would not he should do me, my lord, lest I should prove the mother of fools. deceit dishonesty falsehood hearts honesty love men payback women William Shakespeare
065ae61 O my love, my wife! Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty. breath death love sucked wife William Shakespeare
2894f93 Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love but not your thoughts, For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams. You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday. love Kahlil Gibran
da7fe80 "Noah?" A welcome voice - not my mother's, but welcome all the same: Echo. A smile spread across my face. This was too good. Me in a towel, alone in the house with my nymph. I left the bathroom." echo-emerson katie-mcgarry love noah-hutchins pushing-the-limits sweet towel Katie McGarry
abbf128 This look of thine will hurl my soul from heaven. love soul William Shakespeare
bbef7bb Her delight in the smallest things was like that of a child. There were days when she ran in the garden, like a child of ten, after a butterfly or a dragon-fly. This courtesan who had cost more money in bouquets than would have kept a whole family in comfort, would sometimes sit on the grass for an hour, examining the simple flower whose name she bore. charm childlikeness love Alexandre Dumas-fils
5e27bbe There was something wrong with her. She did not know what it was but there was something wrong with her. A hunger, a restlessness. An incomplete knowledge of herself. The sense of something farther away, beyond her reach. life love Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
6a85da9 Hang there like a fruit, my soul, Till the tree die! -Posthumus Leonatus Act V, Scene V love reunion shakespeare William Shakespeare
1b74aaa Maybe they did what they had to do to live, and tried to get a little love and have a little fun before the darkness took them. love Poppy Z. Brite
69ef0ef The queen hadn't even bothered to say good-bye. She'd just dashed for the injured Fae warrior, his name like a prayer on her lips. Rowan. love rowan sarah-j-maas Sarah J. Maas
c882ba8 "Pressed against her I can hear eternity -- hollow, lonely spaces and currents that churn ceaselessly, and the fallen snow welcomes the falling snow with a whispered "Hush"." blankets love novel Craig Thompson
54e2912 Then she laughed for real, and put her hands around my neck. 'I am never, ever going to make things easy for you Seaweed Brain. Get used to it.' When she kissed me, I had the feeling my brain was melting right through my body. I could've stayed that way forever, except a voice behind us growled, 'Well it's about time!' Suddenly the pavilion was filled with torchlight and campers. Clarisse led the way as the eavesdroppers charged and hoisted us both onto their shoulders. 'Oh, come on!' I complained. 'Is there no privacy?' 'The lovebirds need to cool off!' Clarisse said with glee. 'The canoe lake!' Conner Stoll shouted. With a huge cheer, they carried us down the hill, but they kept us close enough to hold hands. Annabeth was laughing, and I couldn't help laughing too, even though my face was completely red. We held hands right up to the moment they dumped us in the water. clarisse connor-stoll humour kissing love percy Rick Riordan
4145ab9 The poets say some moths will do anything out of love for a flame [...] The moth takes off again, and we both step back, because he's circling at eye level now and seems to have lost rudder control, smacking into the wall on each round. He circles lower and lower, spinning around the candle in tighter revolutions, like a soap sud over an open drain. A few times he seems to touch the flame, but dances off unhurt. Then he ignites like a ball of hair, curling into an oily puff of fumes with a hiss. The candle flame flickers and dims for a moment, then burns as bright as before. Moth Smoke Lingers. insects love moth smoke star-crossed tragedy Mohsin Hamid
7e52838 Who did she know in Raleigh who took the time off to fix a house? Or read Whitman or Eliot, finding images in the mind, thoughts of the spirit? Or hunted dawn from the bow of a canoe? These weren't the things that drove society, but she felt they shouldn't be treated as unimportant. They made living worthwhile. love romance Nicholas Sparks
dc76a04 I love you. I will love you till the stars crumble, which is a less idle threat than is usual to lovers on parting. humor love luthe Robin McKinley
53a6a3f And when it comes, her kiss is like something not so much felt as found. love Libba Bray
fb707c4 My own eyes went to Jamie, who had come to join Fergus and Ian by the sideboard. Still here, thank God. Tall and graceful, the soft light making shadows in the folds of his shirt as he moved, a fugitive gleam from the long straight bridge of his nose, the auburn wave of his hair. Still mine. Thank God. jamie-fraser love Diana Gabaldon
28cf1c6 I thought I loved him when he went away; I love him now in another degree: he is more my own. [ . . . ] Oh! a thousand weepers, praying in agony on waiting shores, listened for that voice, but it was not uttered--not uttered till; when the hush came, some could not feel it: till, when the sun returned, his light was night to some! emmanuel lost-at-sea love missing storm villette waiting Charlotte Brontë
0644ecd I'll pray that you grow up a brave man in a brave country. I will pray you find a way to be useful. I'll pray, and then I'll sleep. brave courage fortitude god grace inspirational jesus kind kindness life love pray prayer praying precious prudence stewardship world Marilynne Robinson
73554b0 "I was breathless, talking as fast as I could. I was afraid if I stopped talking, even for a second, I'd start sobbing again. "Whoa, there." Fang smiled and reached up, tracing a hand down the side of my face, winding strands of my hair around his fingers. "Stop talking and let me just tell you how great it is to wake up staring at your face. Okay?" love otp James Patterson
1324e0a I just want some time, Mikhail, to think things through. It's frightening, the way I am about you. I think about you every minute; I want to touch you, just to know I can, to feel you beneath my fingers. It's as if you crawled into my head and my heart, even my body, and I can't get you out. love scared Christine Feehan
6f1ca0b "Two people whose opinion I respect told me that the word "Christian" would turn people off. This certainly says something about the state of Christianity today. I wouldn't mind if to be a Christian were accepted as being the dangerous thing which it is; I wouldn't mind if, when a group of Christians meet for bread and wine, we might well be interrupted and jailed for subversive activities; I wouldn't mind if, once again, we were being thrown to the lions. I do mind, desperately, that the word "Christian" means for so many people smugness, and piosity, and holier-than-thouness. Who today can recognize a Christian because of "how those Christians love one another?" dangerous love subversive Madeleine L'Engle
0793936 I'm in love with someone good and kind and gentle, and he's seen the darkness too, but somehow we've become each other's light. love Emma Forrest
0aed0fb But Roarke doesn't feel weird about it. He's full of it, the love, I mean. And when he loves me, things that never worked in me did - do. It was easier when they didn't work, but it's better when they do. You know? love J.D. Robb
0a689b0 The truth is, there is no line. There's only your life, how you mess it up, and who is there to save you. Or who isn't. love people Mitch Albom
cdd1ffc I didn't ask you if you loved him. I asked you if you liked him. Love is important but like is the more important. If you don't like him, all the love in the world can't make you have a good relationship. like love relationship-advice Carolyn Brown
1f0c716 "He found her not even a block away from the house, sitting on a curb. As he approached, he saw her wiping her face with her forearm. Sabine was...crying? "What are you doing out here, cwena?" Over the past week, Rydstrom had been pleased when she'd worried about him, and gratified when she'd felt the sting of jealousy. Was he a terrible man to hope she was crying about him? She glared at him with her bottom lip quivering, allowing him to see her like this instead of using a mask. "I d-don't have anywhere else to g-go." Another swipe of her forearm over her eyes. "Lanthe's gone, and I c-can't get to her for six days. And I'm in a strange t-town and land, and Vrekeners are everywhere." Sabine hadn't even mentioned what they'd just gone through- "And you br-broke up with me!" she said, her tears falling faster. "Is that supposed to make me happy?" "Come inside, Sabine." "No! You t-told me not to." She sniffled, "You don't want me at your house." He swooped her up in his arms. "Will you shut up?" With his free hand, he brushed her tears. "I made it ten minutes before I came after you." -- kresley-cole love love-it Kresley Cole
491430c I loved you then and I love you now and I have loved you every second in between. love stephen-king time Stephen King
2cedf0d The world is crazy. You need a license to drive a car and go fishing. You don't need a license to start a family. Two people have sex and BAM! Perfectly innocent kid is born whose life will be screwed up by her parents forever. family laurie-halse-anderson love the-impossible-knife-of-memory Laurie Halse Anderson
994b36a When angels speak of love they tell us it is only by loving that we enter an earthly paradise. They tell us paradise is our home and love our true destiny. love spirituality bell hooks
3d49f83 Now the two of them rode silently toward town, both lost in their own thoughts. Their way took them past the Delgado house. Roland looked up and saw Susan sitting in her window, a bright vision in the gray light of that fall morning. His heart leaped up and although he didn't know it then, it was how he would remember her most clearly forever after- lovely Susan, the girl in the window. So do we pass the ghosts that haunt us later in our lives; they sit undramatically by the roadside like poor beggars, and we see them only from the corners of our eyes, if we see them at all. The idea that they have been waiting there for us rarely if ever crosses our minds. Yet they do wait, and when we have passed, they gather up their bundles of memory and fall in behind, treading in our footsteps and catching up, little by little. loss love Stephen King
f821592 "The Indians are the Italians of Asia", Didier pronounced with a sage and mischievous grin. "It can be said, certainly, with equal justice, that the Italians are the Indians of Europe, but you do understand me, I think. There is so much Italian in the Indians, and so much Indians in the Italians. They are both people of the Madonna - they demand a goddess, even if the religion does not provide one. Every man in both countries is a singer when he is happy, and every woman is a dancer when she walks to the shop at the corner. For them, food is music inside the body, and music is food inside the heart. The Language of India and the language of Italy, they make every man a poet, and make something beautiful from every banalite. They are nations where love - amore, pyaar - makes a cavalier of a Borsalino on a street corner, and makes a princess of a peasant girl, if only for the second that her eyes meet yours." italians love pyaar Gregory David Roberts
7cbf05f In defiance of Miss Maccalariat I'd like to commit hanky-panky with you, Miss Adora Belle Dearheart... well, certainly hanky, and possibly panky when we get to know one another better. love Terry Pratchett
83a208b "I've been noble since they took you to the hospital," he said through his teeth. "I'm tired of it. I don't eat, I don't sleep, I can't even work. I remember your voice moaning in my ear like the cry of the damned while I was having you," he bit off, bending to her mouth. "You couldn't get enough of me. You couldn't get close enough to me. Your face when I fulfilled you....I ache every time I think about it." -- judd love romance Diana Palmer
42d5bac You're the most incredible girl I've ever known. You're gorgeous and smart, and you make me laugh like no-one else can. And I can talk to you. And I know after all this I don't deserve you, but what I'm trying to say is that I love you, Anna. Very Much. ettiene-st-clair love romance ya young-adult-romance Stephanie Perkins
ea8b987 Her handwriting was curious small sharp little letters with no capitals (who did she think she was, e. e. cummings?). love Erich Segal
6da2ec2 Love, the simplest, strongest, and most unforgiving of all emotions. forgive forgiveness love unforgiving Stephen King
a18df4b To look deep into your child's eyes and see in him both yourself and something utterly strange, and then to develop a zealous attachment to every aspect of him, is to achieve parenthood's self-regarding, yet unselfish, abandon. It is astonishing how often such mutuality had been realized - how frequently parents who had supposed that they couldn't care for an exceptional child discover that they can. The parental predisposition to love prevails in the most harrowing of circumstances. There is more imagination in the world than one might think. love parenting Andrew Solomon
464663c "Believe this," he whispered, and kissed her with the sharp, sleek kiss, the silver kiss, so swift and true, and razor sharp, and her warmth was flowing into him." love vampire Annette Curtis Klause
b6ad4d5 " was a great man. a wonderful intellect, a great soul of matchless courage, one of the great men of the earth -- and yet we have no right to bow down to his memory simply because he was great. Great orators, great soldiers, great lawyers, often use their gifts for a most unholy cause. We meet to pay a tribute of love and respect to because he used his matchless power for the good of man. courage eulogy good goodness greatness honor ingersoll love memory power praise respect robert-g-ingersoll robert-green-ingersoll robert-ingersoll tribute Clarence Darrow
859fbf3 Your cold blood cannot be worked into a fever; your veins are full of ice water; but mine are boiling, and the sight of such chillness makes them dance. love Emily Brontë
5d7a299 I 'never told my love' vocally; still, if looks have language, the merest idiot might have guessed I was over head and ears; love Emily Brontë
b56daf3 It's not about having things figured out, or about communicating with other people, trying to make them understand what you understand. It's about a chicken dinner at a drive-in. A soft pillow. Things that don't need explaining. connection love understanding Ann Beattie
b7e01d4 Princess Diana talking to Prince William about the loss of her title Her Royal Highness: She turned to William in her distress. She (Princess Diana) told me how he had sat with her one night when she was upset over the loss of HRH, put his arms around her and said: Don't worry, Mummy. I will give it back to you one day when I am king. love Paul Burrell
7e525da "I knew you read the in the vac," he said in a low voice. Maurice felt uneasy. "Then you understand - without me saying more - " "How do you mean?" Durham could not wait. People were all around them, but with eyes that had gone intensely blue he whispered, "I love you." love romance E. M. Forster
d54b101 "Every time you look at me, you'll remember that I'm half his." "No." His hand came to the side of her face, his thumb wiping her tears. "You're all mine." His voice was deep and shaken. "Every hair on your head. Every part of you was made to be loved by me." helen-ravenel love rhys-winterborne Lisa Kleypas
c99f4aa It was her brother,' said Mr. Thornton to himself. 'I am glad.I may never see her again; but it is comfort-a relief-to know that much. I knew she could not be unmaidenly; and yet I yearned for conviction. Now I am glad!' It was a little golden thread running through the dark web of his present fortunes; which were growing ever gloomier and more gloomy. love misfortunes proof Elizabeth Gaskell
cc76733 "An attachment grew up. What is an attachment? It is the most difficult of all the human interrelationships to explain, because it is the vaguest, the most impalpable. It has all the good points of love, and none of its drawbacks. No jealousy, no quarrels, no greed to possess, no fear of losing possession, no hatred (which is very much a part of love), no surge of passion and no hangover afterward. It never reaches the heights, and it never reaches the depths. As a rule it comes on subtly. As theirs did. As a rule the two involved are not even aware of it at first. As they were not. As a rule it only becomes noticeable when it is interrupted in some way, or broken off by circumstances. As theirs was. In other words, its presence only becomes known in its absence. It is only missed after it stops. While it is still going on, little thought is given to it, because little thought needs to be. It is pleasant to meet, it is pleasant to be together. To put your shopping packages down on a little wire-backed chair at a little table at a sidewalk cafe, and sit down and have a vermouth with someone who has been waiting there for you. And will be waiting there again tomorrow afternoon. Same time, same table, same sidewalk cafe. Or to watch Italian youth going through the gyrations of the latest dance craze in some inexpensive indigenous night-place-while you, who come from the country where the dance originated, only get up to do a sedate fox trot. It is even pleasant to part, because this simply means preparing the way for the next meeting. One long continuous being-together, even in a love affair, might make the thing wilt. In an attachment it would surely kill the thing off altogether. But to meet, to part, then to meet again in a few days, keeps the thing going, encourages it to flower. And yet it requires a certain amount of vanity, as love does; a desire to please, to look one's best, to elicit compliments. It inspires a certain amount of flirtation, for the two are of opposite sex. A wink of understanding over the rim of a raised glass, a low-voiced confidential aside about something and the smile of intimacy that answers it, a small impromptu gift - a necktie on the one part because of an accidental spill on the one he was wearing, or of a small bunch of flowers on the other part because of the color of the dress she has on. So it goes. And suddenly they part, and suddenly there's a void, and suddenly they discover they have had an attachment. Rome passed into the past, and became New York. Now, if they had never come together again, or only after a long time and in different circumstances, then the attachment would have faded and died. But if they suddenly do come together again - while the sharp sting of missing one another is still smarting - then the attachment will revive full force, full strength. But never again as merely an attachment. It has to go on from there, it has to build, to pick up speed. And sometimes it is so glad to be brought back again that it makes the mistake of thinking it is love. ("For The Rest Of Her Life")" attachment attachments love relationship Cornell Woolrich
d9529cf They did it for love, and sometimes love makes us do the irrational .. even the inexcusable. irrational love Melissa de la Cruz
8ca040a I loved him so, even his past was precious to me. I found myself kissing each mark, thinking, taking him further and further back to a time when he had known no disappointments, no battles, no wounds, as I erased each one. To make him again like Caesarion. Yet if we take the past away from those we love - even to protect them - do we not steal their very selves? cleopatra love Margaret George
45f76a2 Hunger of the body is altogether different from the shallow, daily hunger of the belly. Those who have known this kind of hunger cannot entirely love, ever again, those who have not. love Barbara Kingsolver
6c1ec56 "He nuzzled my neck, inhaling deeply. "Mmm. You smell so good." "Oh, yeah," I said, smirking. "I call this new perfume 'Le Jungle grime et tropical BO.' " "Dirt and sweat. Very sexy." humor lol love otp qué-romántico James Patterson
3fa82cc I guess when you're trying to find all the parts of yourself, it's difficult to be with someone who's already fully intact. goodness inspiration love yourself Cecelia Ahern
0d156a6 Some of us have hearts, you know. Some of us don't give up on true love. heart heartbreak love true-love Sophie Kinsella
55ba92b "You and me?" I let out a stunned bark of laughter. "There is no you and me." "That's what you think," Chaz says, tugging on his coat. "And I'll be damned if I'm going to wait around until you figure out that isn't true." "Fine," I say "I'm not asking you to, am I?" "No." Chaz is smiling... but not like he's happy. "But you would if you had the slightest idea what was good for you." And with that, he yanks open the door and storms through it, slamming it closed behind him with enough force to cause the windowpanes to rattle. And then he's gone." lizzie love Meg Cabot
7df3fb8 This world's anguish is no different from the love we insist on holding back. agape-love anguish casualties-of-war child-victims-of-war children-killed-in-war conflict-resolution faith fear grief gun-laws gun-violence hope love nonviolent-conflict-resolution pain peace peace-movement peacemaking police-reform police-shootings russia-and-ukraine-conflict spiritual-love syrian-civil-war tragedy unconditional-love violence war world-suicide-prevention-day Aberjhani
4f4f5df When you showed someone how you felt, it was fresh and honest. When you told someone how you felt, there might be nothing behind the words but habit or expectation. feelings habit love show truth words Jodi Picoult
c461c35 This is the most profound spiritual truth I know: that even when we're most sure that love can't conquer all, it seems to anyway. It goes down into the rat hole with us, in the guise of our friends, and there it swells and comforts. It gives us second winds, third winds, hundredth winds. love love-conquers second-wind Anne Lamott
4829a7a Love will not be constrain'd by mastery. When mast'ry comes, the god of love anon Beateth his wings, and, farewell, he is gone. Love is a thing as any spirit free. love relationships Geoffrey Chaucer
d2fc2a2 He was a boy in love with a wildfire. Or at least he thought he was dorian-havilliard love wildfire Sarah J. Maas
c150255 I looked at her, with her hair spilled out on the pillows and the warmth of her body warming mine. And I thought, god-dang, if this ain't a heck of a way to be in bed with a pretty woman. The two of you arguing about murder, and threatening each other, when you're supposed to be in love and you could be doing something pretty nice. And then I thought, well, maybe it ain't so strange after all. Maybe it's like this with most people, everyone doing pretty much the same thing except in a different way. And all the time they're holding heaven in their hands. crime-fiction human-condition love murder violence Jim Thompson
bf18f04 ...Jo loved a few persons very dearly and dreaded to have their affection lost or lessened in any way. louisa-may-alcott love Louisa May Alcott
da85cf8 Do you not see how strange and wonderful that is? That all history balances on an affair of the human heart? heart love Robin Hobb
146291c Up on the Brooklyn Bridge a man is standing in agony, waiting to jump, or waiting to write a poem, or waiting for the blood to leave his vessels because if he advances another foot the pain of his love will kill him. artists-life blocks bridge brooklyn creativity love poem poetry suffering suicide writing Henry Miller
ac34322 Your mind was made to know and love God. god love mind purpose John Piper
0abc93c l ymkn llnsn 'bdan 'n ydrk mdh `lyh 'n yf`l, l'nh l ymlk l Hy@ wHd@, l ys`h mqrnth biHaywt sbq@ wl SlHh fy Hywt lHq@. friedrich-nietzche friedrich-nietzsche love milan-kundera neitzsche novel philosophy philosophy-of-life political psychological psychology religion religion-and-philoshophy sex sociology اجتماع جنس حب علم-نفس فلسفة فلسفة-حياة كائن-لا-تحتمل-خفته ميلان-كونديرا نيتشه ميلان كونديرا
bd79a20 Clouds pass and disperse. Are those the faces of love, those pale irretrievables? Is it for such I agitate my heart? heart love poetry Sylvia Plath
4632ff3 Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can't stand the thought of them changing? Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can't see clearly? crime love seeing Jodi Picoult
3684f4a Love is a dangerous thing. It comes in disguise to change our life... Lust is the deceiver. Lust wrenches our lives until nothing matters except the one we think we love, and under that deceptive spell we kill for them, give all for them, and then, when we have what we have wanted, we discover that it is all an illusion and nothing is there. Lust is a voyage to nowhere, to an empty land, but some men just love such voyages and never care about the destination. Love is a voyage too, a voyage with no destination except death, but a voyage of bliss. love lust Bernard Cornwell
d6a663a Indifference is more truly the opposite of love than hate is, for we can both love and hate the same person at the same time, but we cannot both love and be indifferent to the same person at the same time. indifference love Peter Kreeft
263c163 She deserved at least one person who saw her and knew how good she was. loneliness lonely love Rick Riordan
a90e090 She was afraid, and the afraid, she realized, sought opportunities for bravery in love. love Lorrie Moore
76600ec The Librarian was not familiar with love, which had always struck him as a bit ethereal and soppy, but kindness, on the other hand, was practical. You knew where you were with kindness, especially if you were holding a pie it had just given you. love Terry Pratchett
abc1749 "Why should I keep myself so safe?" he asked her, but he was almost asking himself. What is there in my life worth preserving? With a good wife back there in the mountains, serviceable as an old spoon, dry in the heart from having been scared of marriage since she was six? With three children so shy of their father, the Prince of the Arjikis, that they will hardly come near him? With a careworn clan moving here, moving there, going through th same disputes, herding the same herds, as thy have done for five hundred years? And me, with a shallow and undirected mind, no artfulness in word or habit, no especial kindness toward the world? What is there that makes my life worth preserving? "I love you," said Elphaba. "So that's that then, and that's it," he answered her and himself. "And I love you. So I promise to be careful." fiyero gregory-maguire love wicked Gregory Maguire
d5ccc72 And in this he showed me a little thing, the quantity of a hazel nut, lying in the palm of my hand, as it seemed. And it was as round as any ball. I looked upon it with the eye of my understanding, and thought, 'What may this be?' And it was answered generally thus, 'It is all that is made.' I marveled how it might last, for I thought it might suddenly have fallen to nothing for littleness. And I was answered in my understanding: It lasts and ever shall, for God loves it. And so have all things their beginning by the love of God. In this little thing I saw three properties. The first is that God made it. The second that God loves it. And the third, that God keeps it. god love preservation small Julian of Norwich
19d900a Everybody looks a little crazy if you're looking close enough and if you can't look that close, then you don't really love them. love Chuck Palahniuk
86c035d God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him. bible bible-verse god love scripture Anonymous
595d836 Surely it's better to love others, however messy and imperfect the involvement, than to allow one's capacity for love to harden. love Karen Armstrong
6ef9a54 I realized that it was not that I didn't want to go on without him. I did. It was just that I didn't know why I wanted to go on grief love Kay Redfield Jamison
cfa209c Our greatest fulfillment lies in giving ourselves to others. love self-giving Henri J.M. Nouwen
2f1c43c In Chinese love stories the one who loves always starts by borrowing a book from the beloved. love Dai Sijie
a737d9d Ah, damn it, lass,'he called after her. 'I've busted my stitches wide open.' 'What?'she cried, hurrying back to him. 'Let me see!' 'Ah-ha!' He snared her around the waist, dragging her down with him to his lap.'You still care for me! funny love romance Kresley Cole
6dbad0c Oak, granite, Lilies by the road, Remember me? I remember you. Clouds brushing Clover hills, Remember me? Sister, child, Grown tall, Remember me? I remember you. love remember reunion sisters Gail Carson Levine
5a5a629 There is no affirmation without the one who affirms. in this sense, everything to which you grant your love is yours love Ayn Rand
5b6140b Like the muscles knew from the beginning that it would end with this, this inevitable falling apart... It's sad, but a relief as well to know that two things so closely bound together can separate with so little violence, leaving smooth surfaces instead of bloody shreds. divorce love marriage Julie Powell
0cca254 My love for you is a prayer, she thought. Love is the only prayer I know. love prayer Marion Zimmer Bradley
d06ad27 We all make mistakes, we all have fears, and we all have weaknesses. Behind all that is our essential self. When our essential self has made contact with another, the light is dazzling and would fill the universe. The challenge of enchantment is to remain faithful to that light, to believe in it when it is not so apparent. Then that light becomes an incandescent glow and it wraps itself around everything. love Marianne Williamson
7699056 Who will ever kiss this encyclopedia of a head? knowledge-education love love-hurts Elizabeth Gilbert
b9e7b8d I guess it can't be too often that two people can laugh and make love, too, make love because they are laughing, laugh because they're making love. The love and the laughter come from the same place: but not many people go there love relationships James Baldwin
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