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655a5be As an unperfect actor on the stage, Who with his fear is put besides his part, Or some fierce thing replete with too much rage, Whose strength's abundance weakens his own heart; So I, for fear of trust, forget to say The perfect ceremony of love's rite, And in mine own love's strength seem to decay, O'ercharg'd with burden of mine own love's might. O, let my books be then the eloquence And dumb presagers of my speaking breast; Who plead for love, and look for recompense, More than that tongue that more hath more express'd. O, learn to read what silent love hath writ: To hear with eyes belongs to love's fine wit. love poetry words William Shakespeare
de993ee Her room was warm and lightsome. A huge doll sat with her legs apart in the copious easy-chair beside the bed. He tried to bid his tongue speak that he might seem at ease, watching her as she undid her gown, noting the proud conscious movements of her perfumed head. As he stood silent in the middle of the room she came over to him and embraced him gaily and gravely. Her round arms held him firmly to her and he, seeing her face lifted to him in serious calm and feeling the warm calm rise and fall of her breast, all but burst into hysterical weeping. Tears of joy and relief shone in his delighted eyes and his lips parted though they would not speak. She passed her tinkling hand through his hair, calling him a little rascal. --Give me a kiss, she said. His lips would not bend to kiss her. He wanted to be held firmly in her arms, to be caressed slowly, slowly, slowly. In her arms he felt that he had suddenly become strong and fearless and sure of himself. But his lips would not bend to kiss her. With a sudden movement she bowed his head and joined her lips to his and he read the meaning of her movements in her frank uplifted eyes. It was too much for him. He closed his eyes, surrendering himself to her, body and mind, conscious of nothing in the world but the dark pressure of her softly parting lips. They pressed upon his brain as upon his lips as though they were the vehicle of a vague speech; and between them he felt an unknown and timid pressure, darker than the swoon of sin, softer than sound or odour. embrace emotion held joy kiss lips love lust overcome sex woman James Joyce
7699056 Who will ever kiss this encyclopedia of a head? knowledge-education love love-hurts Elizabeth Gilbert
a81b916 Sure, we were friends who exchanged soulful glances, friends who slept in a bed filled with sexual tension, friends who found any excuse to touch, but I worried that we'd never take that perilous leap of faith toward becoming a real couple, a permanent team. love Emily Giffin
936d828 He thought of her often, and he missed the companionship they'd once shared and the friendship that had been the bedrock of their marriage at its best. life-lessons love Nicholas Sparks
f0719dd And as the years flowed by, some villagers told travelers of a beast and a beauty who lived in the castle and could be seen walking on the battlements, and others told of two beauties, and others, of two beasts. fairy-tales-for-adults love perceptions Emma Donoghue
ff48372 Max. God, but she was stubborn. And tough. And closed in. Closed off. Except when she was holding Angel, or ruffling the Gasman's hair, or pushing something closer to Iggy's hand so he could find it easily without knowing anyone had helped him. Or when she was trying to untangle Nudge's mane of hair. Or-sometimes-when she was looking at Fang. He shifted on the hard ground, a half-dozen flashes of memory cycling through his brain. Max looking at him and laughing. Max leaping off a cliff, snapping out her wings, flying off, so incredibly powerful and graceful that it took his breath away. Max punching someone's lights out, her face like stone. Max kissing that weiner Sam on Anne's front porch. Gritting his teeth, Fang rolled onto his side. Max kissing him on the beach, after Ari had kicked Fang's butt. Just now, her mouth soft under his. He wished she were here, if not next to him, then somewhere in the cave, so he could hear her breathing. It was going to be hard to sleep without that tonight. fang friendship-and-love jealousy love max missing need needing otp otpotptoptop-i-just-can-t remembering wings-and-flying James Patterson
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
cd04187 This last year... I learned something about family. Like it's not about blood alone. It's being connected... it's growing up together and loving each other. It's believing in the same God and knowing you'd do anything for the person across from you at dinner. family inspirational love Karen Kingsbury
0cca254 My love for you is a prayer, she thought. Love is the only prayer I know. love prayer Marion Zimmer Bradley
2009c11 Then must you speak Of one that loved not wisely but too well, Of one not easily jealous but, being wrought, Perplexed in the extreme; of one whose hand, Like the base Indian, threw a pearl away Richer than all his tribe; of one whose subdued eyes, Albeit unused to the melting mood, Drop tears as fast as the Arabian trees Their medicinable gum. Set you down this, And say besides that in Aleppo once, Where a malignant and a turbaned Turk Beat a Venetian and traduced the state, I took by th' throat the circumcised dog And smote him thus. love malignant wise William Shakespeare
da481de I realize the simple truth is that power isn't control at all- power is strength, and giving that strength to others. A leader isn't someone who forces others to make him stronger; a leader is someone willing to give his strength to others so that they may have the strength to stand on their own. control love overcoming power strong Beth Revis
d6970de Where were we? I've forgotten. He was deciding whether to cut her throat or love her forever. Right. Yes. The usual choices. love margaret atwood
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
1e3562b The point is not that this world is too sad to love or too glad not to love; the point is that when you do love a thing, its gladness is a reason for loving it, and its sadness a reason for loving it more. gladness love sadness G.K. Chesterton
50b0b00 At first it's bliss. It's drunken, heady, intoxicating. It swallows the people we were - not particuarly wonderful people, but people who did our best, more or less - and spits out the monsters we are becoming. Our friends despise us. We are an epic. Everything is grand, crashing, brilliant, blinding. It's the Golden Age of Hollywood, and we are a legend in our own minds, and no one outside can fail to see that we are headed for hell, and we won't listen, we say they don't understand, we pour more wine, go to the parties, we sparkle, fly all over the country, we're on an adventure, unstoppable, we've found each other and we race through our days like Mr. Toad in his yellow motorcar, with no idea where the brakes are and to hell with it anyway, we are on fire, drunk with something we call love. love Marya Hornbacher
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
0b9eb35 But new love only lasts so long, and then you crash back into the real people you are, and from as high as we were, it's a very long fall, and we hit the ground with a thud. crashing falling love mental-illness new-love Marya Hornbacher
b6fa5b0 For love is a celestial harmony Of likely hearts compos'd of stars' concent, Which join together in sweet sympathy, To work each other's joy and true content, Which they have harbour'd since their first descent Out of their heavenly bowers, where they did see And know each other here belov'd to be. love platonic-love religion Edmund Spenser
fea325f "Having reached 451 books as of now doesn't help the situation. If I were to be dying now, I would be murmuring, "Too bad! Only four hundred fifty-one." (Those would be my next-to-last words. The last ones will be: "I love you, Janet.") [They were. -Janet.]" last-words love Isaac Asimov
885ef5d Having made the decision to love, had I chosen life instead of death? life love Richard Bach
3dcc281 I do not need to get used to your silence. I already know it. I quite possibly love all of it. love Ernest Hemingway
2cc2bb3 Besides, I'm not jealous. I'm just so in love with you that there isn't anything else. love Ernest Hemingway
258d240 From a mind filled with infinite love comes the power to create infinite possibilities. We have the power to think in ways that reflect and attract all the love in the world. Such thinking is called enlightenment. Enlightenment is not a process we work toward, but a choice available to us in any instant. love potential present-moment Marianne Williamson
0586eb3 To be loved because of one's merit, because one deserves it, always leaves doubt; maybe I did not please the person whom I want to love me, maybe this, or that - there is always a fear that love could disappear. love Erich Fromm
8335927 Don't love anything that can be taken away. love Ron Rash
5567019 I just wouldn't want to hook up with a guy unless I really, really like him, and in my experience all boys can be classified as either assholes or bores, unless they're both. Maybe it's a blessing, because the last thing I need is relationship drama to sidetrack me from my grades. boyfriend love relationships teenage-love Daria Snadowsky
ffe89ee Sometimes love isn't about being smart. Sometimes it's about being stupid together. love Laurell K. Hamilton
3054801 Death never mattered at those times - in the early days I even used to pray for it: the shattering annihilation that would prevent for ever the getting up, the putting on of clothes, the wathchign her torch trail across to the opposite side of the common like the tail-light of a low car driving away. love sex Graham Greene
d7d737c I hope death will be a great happiness, a happiness as great as that of love, fulfilled love happiness love philosophy Hermann Hesse
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38d8914 For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat. love marriage Gustave Flaubert
29851a7 "As he was about to climb yet another dune, his heart whispered, "Be aware of the place where you are brought to tears. That's where I am, and thats where your treasure is." love tears treasure Paulo Coelho
9f12bfb I am in the Aleph, the point at which everything is in the same place at the same time. I'm at a window, looking out at the world and its secret places, poetry lost in time and words left hanging in space...sentences that are perfectly understood, even when left unspoken. Feelings that simultaneously exalt and suffocate. feelings love Paulo Coelho
db11126 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. constancy heathcliff love Emily Brontë
e807e26 "I love you as much as the ocean kisses the shore falling-in-love happiness love true-love unconditional Sarah Kay
1a34a14 One should not believe too strongly in a life which can easily vanish. life love relationship James Salter
7db1e7d "It was as simple as that - they met. As simple as only beautiful things can be beautiful, as only life-changing things, turning-point things, can be simple. ("For The Rest Of Her Life")" fate life-changing love meeting relationship simple simplicity Cornell Woolrich
68d9988 What happened was: they became a team, a family of two. There had been times before they ran away when they acted like a team, but those were very different from like a team. Becoming a team didn't mean the end of their arguments. But it did mean that the arguments became a part of the adventure, became discussions not threats. To an outsider the arguments would appear to be the same because feeling like part of a team is something that happens invisibly. You might call it . You could even call it . And it is very rarely, indeed, that it happens to two people at the same time-- especially a brother and a sister who had always spent more time with activities than they had with each other. love team E.L. Konigsburg
2014c60 Flat muscled and honey coloured. Sea secrets in his eyes. A silver raindrop in his ear. love thoughts Arundhati Roy
cc3c6eb The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself. Of course he wants care and shelter. You don't buy love for nothing. love William S. Burroughs
137ac35 Houses are like people - some you like and some you don't like - and once in a while there is one you love. love L.M. Montgomery
b3c392a You love me. You ignore me. You save my life, then you cook my mother into soap. love save soap Chuck Palahniuk
cded63f There are lots of superheroes with different superpowers, and some of them are big and flashy, like super strength and super speed, and molecular restructuring, and force fields. But these abilities are really not so different from the superpower stuff that old Jiko could do, like moving superslow, or reading people's minds, or appearing in doorways, or making people feel okay about themselves by just being there. grandma japan love superheroes superpowers Ruth Ozeki
80195bb He was, I take it, the most perfect reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer. They were admirable things for the observer- excellent for drawing the veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained observer to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely adjusted temperament was to introduce a distracting factor which might throw a doubt upon all his mental results. Grit in a sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own high-power lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a nature such as his. john-watson love sherlock-holmes Arthur Conan Doyle
8b1d5dd I loved her like a rabbit loves a rattlesnake love noir James M. Cain
762dade Schuyler put a gentle hand on Abbadon's feathered extensions, feeling the majestic power underneath their silky weight. She had been frightened once, to see him in this light, but now that she saw his terrifying face, she found it beautiful. love Melissa de la Cruz
513668d "I trail my fingers across his cheek. He stays perfectly still for me. "Please stop apologizing, Etienne." "Say my name again," he whispers. I close my eyes and lean forward. "Etienne." He takes my hands into his. Those perfect hands, that fit mine just so. "Anna?" Our foreheads touch. "Yes?" "Will you please tell me you love me? I'm dying here." And then we're laughing. And then I'm in his arms, and we're kissing, at first quickly - to make up for lost time - and then slowly, because we have all the time in the world. And his lips are soft and honey sweet, and the careful, passionate way he moves them against my own says that he savors the way I taste, too. And in between kisses, I tell him I love him. Again and again and again." etienne-and-anna love romance ya Stephanie Perkins
80e3d15 And how can you say I love you to someone you love? I rolled onto my side and fell asleep next to her. Here is the point of everything I have been trying to tell you, Oskar. It's always necessary. life love Jonathan Safran Foer
6e3c38a My arm draped her shoulder; we both felt safe, as if we were a complete solar system unto ourselves, dangling in the sky, warm heated planets inside a universe of stars. -Richard happiness inspiration love Douglas Coupland
de72a37 I refused to believe that love could take any other form than mine: I measured love by the extent of my jealousy, and by that standard of course she could not love me at all. love Graham Greene
b3ba276 I know it is something of a cliche to say that love makes all things possible, but I believe it does. It is not a magic wand that can be waved over life to make it all sweet and lovely and trouble free, but it can give the energy to fight the odds and win. love magic wand Mary Balogh
baa241d You can't substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship. Money is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness. gentleness love material-things money power substitute tenderness Mitch Albom
eb4ee65 She knew this man's smile, his gentle ways of love, but not his godlike fury in the storm. She might snare him in a fragile net of music, love and flowers, but, at each departure, he would break forth without, it seemed to her, the least regret. love music night-flight regret Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
e2a185d I feel all agitated, like one of those snow globes you see resting peacefully on shop counters. I was perfectly happy being an ordinary, dull little Swiss village. But now Jack Harper's come and shaken me up, and there are snowflakes all over the place, whirling around until I don't know what I think anymore. And bits of glitter, too. Tiny bits of shiny, secret excitement. love metaphor Sophie Kinsella
4e424e9 I believe people ought to mate for life...like pigeons or Catholics. humor love marriage Woody Allen
2c16602 I don't know why men like to barbecue so much. Maybe its the only thing they can cook. Or maybe they're just closet pyromaniacs. love men ps-i-love-you Cecelia Ahern
3d8ada1 simply-quotes Follow I close my eyes, thinking that there is nothing like an embrace after an absence, nothing like fitting my face into the curve of his shoulder and filling my lungs with the scent of him. long-distance-love love Jodi Picoult
9dd7a15 Meski berjuang keras untuk tidak memikirkan dia, aku tidak berjuang untuk melupakan. forget love Stephenie Meyer
bedb98b Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love. Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues. Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent; for beauty is a witch Against whose charms faith melteth into blood. claudio comedy friendship-and-love love play William Shakespeare
8cbaa13 I don't think you tell someone you love them because you expect something. I think you tell them because you have something to give. love Nora Roberts
a4babbd For in other ways a woman is full of fear, defenseless, dreads the sight of cold steel; but, when once she is wronged in the matter of love, no other soul can hold so many thoughts of blood. love passion sincerity soul trauma Euripides
86b52f7 The persons on whom I have bestowed my dearest love lie deep in their graves; but, although the happiness and delight of my life lie buried there too, I have not made a coffin of my heart, and sealed it up for ever on my best affections. Deep affliction has only made them stronger; it ought, I think, for it should refine our nature. love Charles Dickens
2acfa96 And Eowyn looked at Faramir long and steadily; and Faramir said: 'Do not scorn pity that is the gift of a gentle heart, Eowyn! But I do not offer you my pity. For you are a lady high and valiant and have yourself won renown that shall not be forgotten; and you are a lady beautiful, I deem, beyond even the words of the Elven-tongue to tell. And I love you. Once I pitied your sorrow. But now, were you sorrowless, without fear or any lack, were you the blissful Queen of Gondor, still I would love you. Eowyn, do you not love me? faramir love J. R. R. Tolkien
28b5c58 The fear of losing each other is always stronger than the pain we cause. loose love pain Krista Ritchie
faa94eb There was something better in life than this rubbish, if only he could get to it--love--nobility--big spaces where passion clasped peace, spaces no science could reach, but they existed for ever, full of woods some of them, and arched with majestic sky and a friend. . . love E.M. Forster
f4c2b6c Our mouths and bodies speak for us in a new language as the trees shake loose a rain of petals that stick to our slickness like skins we will wear forever. And just like that, I am changed. change love rebirth Libba Bray
7b08216 Then I turned the page and at the top it said THINGS I MISS ABOUT M and there was a list of 15 things, and the first was THE WAY HE HOLDS THINGS. I did not understand how you can miss the way somebody holds things. love Nicole Krauss
a1d0863 "So she's not with him?" "No." Otho shrugged. "That's strange." "Why?" Chaol had the sudden urge to strangle him. "Because it looks like he's in love with her," he said, and walked away. Chaol's eyes lost focus for a moment. Then Celaena laughed, and Dorian kept staring at her. The prince hadn't once taken his eyes off her. Dorian's expression was full of--something. Joy? Wonder? His shoulders were straight, his back erect. He looked like a man. Like a king." dorian-havilliard love Sarah J. Maas
6be4d49 And in the midst of our dying, as we rise from the organic and sink back ignominiously into the organic, it is a glory and a privilege to love what Death doesn't touch. For if disaster and oblivion have followed this painting down through time -- so too has love. Insofar as it is immortal (and it is) I have a small, bright, immutable part in that immortality. It exists; and it keeps on existing. And I add my own love to the history of people who have loved beautiful things, and looked out for them, and pulled them from the fire, and sought them when they were lost, and tried to preserve them and save them while passing them along literally from hand to hand, singing out brilliantly from the wreck of time to the next generation of lovers, and the next. love Donna Tartt
956d9f3 If you don't fight for him, you lose! Fight for him! ~Nana Osaki love Ai Yazawa
f16c454 ...love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don't panic now. love James Baldwin
05fcbf7 And hope is like love...a ridiculous, wonderful, powerful thing. love Kate DiCamillo
fdf02cc You shall love your neighbour With your crooked heart, It says so much about love and brokenness -- it's perfect. heart jesus love neighbor perfect John Green
6df2ebe Olly: jesus. is there a girl on this planet who doesn't love mr.darcy Madeline: All girls love Mr. Darcy? Olly: are you kidding? even my sister loves darcy and she doesn't love anybody Madeline: She must love somebody. I'm sure she loves you Olly: what's so great about darcy? Madeline: That's not a serious question Olly: he's a snob Madeline: But he overcomes it and eventually realizes that character matters more than class! He's a man open to learning life's lessons! Also, he's completely gorgeous and noble and brooding and poetic. Did I mention gorgeous? Also, he loves Elizabeth beyond all reason. chat love madeline-whittier mr-darcy olly Nicola Yoon
1f5efc6 Why?' - Nasuada 'You know why' - Murtagh inheritance-cycle love murtagh nasuada Christopher Paolini
e78dd42 Some of the freckles I once loved are now closer to liver spots. But it's still the eyes we look at, isn't it? That's where we found the other person, and find them still. contentment familiarity habit long-term-relationships love marriage Julian Barnes
6a8d7c8 He had kissed her good night that night, and she had tasted like strawberry daiquiris, and he had never wanted to kiss anyone else again. love Neil Gaiman
fbccacf What is more tragic than to see a person who has risen to the disciplined heights of tough-mindedness but has at the same time sunk to the passionless depths of hard-heartedness? inspirational intellect love mind Martin Luther King Jr.
a722a4b "I feel the curve of his smile against my skin. But as he lifts his head and looks into my eyes, his grin fades. "Haven . . . I don't know if I'm going to be a good father. What if I don't do it right?" I am touched by Hardy's concern, his constant desire to be the man he thinks I deserve. Even when we disagree, I have no doubt that I am cherished. And respected. And I know that neither of us takes the other one for granted. I have come to realize you can never be truly happy unless you've known some sorrow. All the terrible things Hardy and I have gone through in our lives have created the spaces inside where happiness can live. Not to mention love. So much love that there doesn't seem to be room for bitterness in either of us. "I think the fact that you're worrying about it at all," I say, "means you'll probably be great at it." haven love travis Lisa Kleypas
b8cc331 O God, I love you to the edge of madness, Venetia, but I'm not mad yet--not so mad that I don't know how disastrous it might be to you--to us both! You don't realize what an advantage I should be taking of your innocence! love madness Georgette Heyer
fca3162 I don't know how it is...but you seem to think me something wonderful, and indeed, I am not. love Georgette Heyer
a2807ee But, Scarlett, did it ever occur to you that even the most deathless love could wear out? love sadness Margaret Mitchell
b9c5c53 When finally she finished and stood herself up, he put his arm around her, best-buddy style, and they walked on. There was no request for a kiss. Nothing like that. You can love Rudy for that, if you like. love Markus Zusak
729e5df The heart was a weak, changeable thing, bent on nothing but love, and there could be no more fatal mistake than to make it your master. Reason must be in charge. It comforted you for the heart's foolishness, it sang mocking songs about love, derided it as a whim of nature, transient as flowers. So why did she still keep following her heart? love Cornelia Funke
4da0fe2 What are we doing to each other? Because I know that I am doing to him exactly what he is doing to me. We are sometimes so happy, and never in our lives have we known more unhappiness. love philosophy romantic Graham Greene
0a1c6ae "I really don't know what 'I love you' means. I think it means "Don't leave me here alone." love poetry sonnet Neil Gaiman
21c7d26 She looked at him with so much love that I had to turn away. At least I know what love looks like, I told myself. That's something. No one had ever looked at me like that, but I'd be able to recognize it if they ever did. love Gail Honeyman
0b1f52e "Max." Fang let go of my hand. "Right now, it's really all about--us." He swooped down to the right in a big semicircle, ending facing me. Slowly we climbed upward, until we were almost vertical, flying straight up to the sun. While carefully synchronizing our wings--they almost touched--Fang leaned in, gently put one hand behind my neck, and kissed me. It was just about as close to heaven as I'll ever get, I guess. I closed my eyes, lost in the feeling of flying and kissing and being with the one person in the world I completely, utterly trusted. When we finally broke apart, we looked down at the others, who were way far below us now. Angel was shading her eyes, looking up at us with a big smile. She was sitting on a dolphin's back, and I hoped soon someone would explain to the dolphin that he shouldn't let Angel take advantage of his good nature. Still looking up at us, Angel gave us a big thumbs-up. "She approves," Fang said with a hint of amusement. "Jeez," I wondered aloud. "Is that a good thing or a bad thing?" couple dolphin flying friendship happiness heaven i-approve-too kiss kissing love otp shipping smile sun trust wings James Patterson
283ef74 I don't know how we made it to the bed or if the water was ever turned off in the shower. But we were together, our bodies slippery, our wet hair soaking the sheets we were tangled in. And then we were tangled, our legs and arms. His hands were everywhere, paying reverence to the many scars on my body. His lips followed, and I grew reacquainted with the hard muscles of his stomach, the feel of him. alex love omfg sex Jennifer L. Armentrout
53ece67 "I had no right to want you -- but I reached out and took you anyway. And now look what's become of you! Trying to seduce a vampire." (Edward Cullen, Eclipse)~Stephenie Meyer" love sparkly Stephenie Meyer
303df68 Choosing to be honest is the first step in the process of love. There is no practitioner of love who deceives. Once the choice has been made to be honest, then the next step on love's path is communication. communication honesty love relationship Bell Hooks
e69b79b If there were a sympathy in choice, War, death, or sickness, did lay siege to it, Making it momentary as a sound, Swift as a shadow, short as any dream, Brief as the lightning in the collied night That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth, And ere a man hath power to say 'Behold!' The jaws of darkness do devour it up; So quick bright things come to confusion. love pain sorrow William Shakespeare
c28686c "Jump, if you want to, 'cause I'll catch you, girl. I'll catch you "fore you fall. Go as far inside as you need to, I'll hold your ankles. Make sure you get back out. I'm not saying this because I need a place to stay. That's the last thing I need. I told you, I'm a walking man, but I been heading in this direction for seven years. Walking all around this place. Upstate, downstate, east, west; I been in territory ain't got no name, never staying nowhere long. But when I got here and sat out there on the porch, waiting for you, well, I knew it wasn't the place I was heading toward; it was you. We can make a life, girl. A life." love relationships Toni Morrison
1471625 ~Do you like him much? ~I told you I like him a little. Where is the use of caring for him so very much? He is full of faults. ~Is he? ~All boys are. ~More than girls? ~Very likely. Wise people say it is folly to think anyboy perfect, and as to likes and diskiles, we should be friendly to all, and worship none. girls love relationships romance Charlotte Brontë
14f8cf3 But with your life you make a few bad decisions, get unlucky a few times, whatever, but you have to keep going, right? goodness inspiration letting-go life love moving-on Cecelia Ahern
3559afd It's better to be loved than feared, but if you can't be loved, then fear will do.-Dino quoting Machiavelli fear love Laurell K. Hamilton
da6db94 "A qui ecris-tu? -A toi. En fait, je ne t'ecris pas vraiment, j'ecris ce que j'ai envie de faire avec toi... Il y avait des feuilles partout. Autour d'elle, a ses pieds, sur le lit. J'en ai pris une au hasard: "...Pique-niquer, faire la sieste au bord d'une riviere, manger des peches, des crevettes, des croissants, du riz gluant, nager, danser, m'acheter des chaussures, de la lingerie, du parfum, lire le journal, lecher les vitrines, prendre le metro, surveiller l'heure, te pousser quand tu prends toute la place, etendre le linge, aller a l'Opera, faire des barbecues, raler parce que tu as oublie le charbon, me laver les dents en meme temps que toi, t'acheter des calecons, tondre la pelouse, lire le journal par-dessus ton epaule, t'empecher de manger trop de cacahuetes, visiter les caves de la Loire, et celles de la Hunter Valley, faire l'idiote, jacasser, cueillir des mures, cuisiner, jardiner, te reveiller encore parce que tu ronfles, aller au zoo, aux puces, a Paris, a Londres, te chanter des chansons, arreter de fumer, te demander de me couper les ongles, acheter de la vaisselle, des betises, des choses qui ne servent a rien, manger des glaces, regarder les gens, te battre aux echecs, ecouter du jazz, du reggae, danser le mambo et le cha-cha-cha, m'ennuyer, faire des caprices, bouder, rire, t'entortiller autour de mon petit doigt, chercher une maison avec vue sur les vaches, remplir d'indecents Caddie, repeindre un plafond, coudre des rideaux, rester des heures a table a discuter avec des gens interessants, te tenir par la barbichette, te couper les cheveux, enlever les mauvaises herbes, laver la voiture, voir la mer, t'appeler encore, te dire des mots crus, apprendre a tricoter, te tricoter une echarpe, defaire cette horreur, recueillir des chats, des chiens, des perroquets, des elephants, louer des bicyclettes, ne pas s'en servir, rester dans un hamac, boire des margaritas a l'ombre, tricher, apprendre a me servir d'un fer a repasser, jeter le fer a repasser par la fenetre, chanter sous la pluie, fuire les touristes, m'enivrer, te dire toute la verite, me souvenir que toute verite n'est pas bonne a dire, t'ecouter, te donner la main, recuperer mon fer a repasser, ecouter les paroles des chansons, mettre le reveil, oublier nos valises, m'arreter de courir, descendre les poubelles, te demander si tu m'aimes toujours, discuter avec la voisine, te raconter mon enfance, faire des mouillettes, des etiquettes pour les pots de confiture..." Et ca continuais comme ca pendant des pages et des pages..." couple love Anna Gavalda
81672a2 She died on a windy gray day in March when the sky was full of darting crows and the world lay prostrate and defeated after winter. Peter Lake was at her side and it ruined him forever. It broke him as he had not ever imagined he could have been broken. He would never again be young, or able to remember what it was like to be young. What he had once taken to be pleasures would appear to him in his defeat as hideous and deserved punishments for reckless vanity. love Mark Helprin
babb363 You must understand that love never keeps a man from pursuing his destiny. If he abandons that pursuit, it's because it wasn't true love. fate life love Paulo Coelho
1b9f2d8 Love is not a tragedy or a failure, but a gift. love John Green
3e7afdb I lay down across her with my face in her breasts and my hand on her. We lay there without moving. But under us all moved, and moved us, gently, up and down, and from side to side. (Pause. Krapp's lips move. No sound.) Past midnight. Never knew such silence. The earth might be uninhabited. krapp life love movement play relatipnship silence Samuel Beckett
4fd89a0 How do you manage it, she said, at your age? I told her I'd been saving up for her all my life. krapp life love play relationship Samuel Beckett
1588715 To my surprise, Joscelin rose. 'Phedre-' He began, then halted. Sitting below him, I watched him smile to himself, quiet and private. 'Phedre yields with a willow's grace,' he said softly. 'And endures with the strength of mountains. Without her, life would be calm; and yet lack all meaning. joscelin-verreuil love Jacqueline Carey
ee10eca If you want to fall in love, you can't hold everything in. You have to open up, take that risk. You'll be hurt sometimes, but if you don't, you'll never be happy. The one you find may not be the kind of woman you expected to fall in love with, but it wont matter, you'll love her for exactly what she is. love thonolan Jean M. Auel
9ed917c He wanted pure compliments, just as he wanted unconditional love. happy insecure insecurity line-of-beauty love sad Alan Hollinghurst
c7455c1 Immersing oneself in the problems of a book is a good way to keep from thinking of love. distraction love orhan-pamuk reading snow Orhan Pamuk
8125757 Cruelty and wrong are not the greatest forces in the world. There is nothing eternal in them. Only love is eternal. good-and-evil love Elisabeth Elliot
8fd7cc6 They luxuriated in the feeling of deep and all pervading satisfaction, a feeling of knowing absolutely that all was well with the world...Not only were all things possible, but all things were theirs. feelings life life-lessons love perfection psychological satisfaction Hubert Selby Jr.
4097c18 "And he'd railed at her, his voice booming so loud the bed had seem to shake. She knew he was constantly there, was aware of his movement and comprehended his words, but she couldn't seem to open her heavy eyelids or speak. At night, he would wrap his body around hers, keeping her warm, whispering against her hair, "You enjoy being contrary. Then prove them all wrong and get better." He'd clutched her hip, then balled his fist there." ethan-maccarrick inspirational love maddy romance sickness Kresley Cole
9cd330d I can't protect you without holding a sword. I can't embrace you while holding a sword. love protection Tite Kubo
1df05bc "So you love me," said Petra softly when the kiss ended. I'm a raging mass of hormones thet I'm too young to understand," said Bean. "You're a female of a closely related species. According to all the best primatologists, I really have no choice." That's nice," she said..." humor love Orson Scott Card
cc9d52f So in sum, what are we? We are the creatures that know and know too much. That leaves us with such a burden again we have a choice, to laugh or cry. No other animal does either. We do, depending on the season and the need. love Ray Bradbury
c57e356 "Gabriel pulled her over his body to lie on the bed beside him. His kisses pressed her down into the oblivion of the mattress as her hands explored his chest, his shoulders, his face. "I want to lay my kill at your feet," he said, more growl than words, and held her tight by her hair as he marked her neck with his teeth. She writhed against him. She wanted to bite him, she wanted to rip the flesh from his back, but most terrible of all, she didn't want him to stop. Her back arched, her body shattered, she howled." love Annette Curtis Klause
f6d381f Spending time with Savannah made me wonder whether it was possible to defy the norm. I wanted more of her, and no matter what happened between us, I already knew I'd never forget anything about her. As crazy as it sounded, she was becoming part of me, and I was already dreading the fact that we wouldn't be able to spend the day together tomorrow. Or the day after, or the day after that. Maybe, I told myself, we could beat the odds.' - John love military-love Nicholas Sparks
451c675 "This is beyond understanding." said the king. "You are the wisest man alive. You know what is preparing. Why do you not make a plan to save yourself?" And Merlin said quietly, "Because I am wise. In the combat between wisdom and feeling, wisdom never wins." -- king-arthur knights love magic merlin wisdom John Steinbeck
b04587a If I could make you stay, I would,' he shouted. 'If I had to beat you, chain you, starve you--if I could make you stay, I would.' He turned back into the room; the wind blew his hair. He shook his finger at me, grotesquely playful. 'One day, perhaps, you will wish I had. love James Baldwin
e5d4d03 Sam glanced at her, a hint of amusement shining in his eyes. Celaena smiled at him, and the world, for one flickering heartbeat, felt right. love sam-cortland the-assassin-and-the-empire Sarah J. Maas
d2ebc20 Don't let yourself die without knowing the wonder of fucking with love love sex Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez
8c1b16c Good night, belovedest. Your sleep will be sweet if there is any influences in the wishes of your own. love sleep L.M. Montgomery
0a45e73 One must love everything. love Virginia Woolf
2e28c19 Can I tell my daughter that I loved her father? This was the man who rubbed my feet at night. He praised the food that I cooked. He cried honestly when I brought out trinkets I had saved for the right day, the day he gave me my daughter, a tiger girl. How could I not love this man? But it was a love of a ghost. Arms that encircled but did not touch. A bowl full of rice but without my appetite to eat it. No hunger. No fullness. Now Saint is a ghost. He and I can now love equally. He knows the things I have been hiding all these years. Now I must tell my daughter everything. That she is a daughter of a ghost. She has no . This is my greatest shame. How can I leave this world without leaving her my spirit? So this is what I will do. I will gather together my past and look. I will see a thing that has already happened. The pain that cut my spirit loose. I will hold that pain in my hand until it becomes hard and shiny, more clear. And then my fierceness can come back, my golden side, my black side. I will use this sharp pain to penetrate my daughter's tough skin and cut her tiger spirit loose. She will fight me, because this is the nature of two tigers. But I will win and give her my spirit, because this is a way a mother loves her daughter. I hear my daughter speaking to her husband downstairs. They say words that mean nothing. They sit in a room with no life in it. I know a thing before it happens. She will hear the table and vase crashing on the floor. She will come upstairs and into my room. Her eyes will see nothing in the darkness, where I am waiting between the trees. love mother Amy Tan
9e851cd You are my angel and my damnation; in your presence I reach divine ecstasy and in your absence I descent to hell. angel damnation ecstasy love Isabel Allende
d185eb0 We were dreamers, both of us, unpractical, reserved, full of great theories never put to test, and like all dreamers, asleep to the waking world. Disliking our fellow men, we craved affection; but shyness kept impulse dormant until the heart was touched. When that happened the heavens opened, and we felt, the pair of us, that we have the whole wealth of the universe to give. We would have both survived, had we been other men. love Daphne du Maurier
f360e5f A lame creature, a cripple like myself, has no right to love. How should I, broken, shattered being that I am, be anything but a burden to you, when to myself I am an object of disgust, of loathing. A creature such as I, I know, has no right to love, and certainly no right to be loved. It is for such a creature to creep away into a corner and die and cease to make other people's lives a burden with her presence. burden cease creature creep cripple die disgust hide lame loathing love right shattered Stefan Zweig
dccf0d0 Yes, faith; it is my cousin's duty to make curtsy and say 'Father, as it please you.' But yet for all that, cousin, let him be a handsome fellow, or else make another curtsy and say 'Father, as it please me. courtship dignity empowerment happiness husbands independence love marriage marriage-proposal matrimony pleasure self-determination wooing William Shakespeare
dfcecdc "He rolled his eyes and took my hand. His hand was hard and calloused, tough with muscle and old scars. The night settled around us like a blanket. I could hear the water lapping against the dock. We were totally alone. "You're . . . ," he began, and I waited, heart throbbing in my throat. "Such a pain," he concluded. "What?" I asked, just as his head swooped in and his mouth touched mine. I tried to speak, but one of Fang's hands held the back of my head, and he kept his lips pressed against me, kissing me softly but with a Fanglike determination. Oh, jeez, I thought distractedly. Jeez, this is Fang, and me, and . . . Fang tilted his head to kiss me more deeply, and I felt totally lightheaded. Then I remembered to breathe through my nose, and the fog cleared a tiny bit. Somehow we were pressed together, Fang's arms around me now, sliding under my wings, his hands flat against my back. It was incredible. I loved it. I loved him. It was a total disaster. Gasping, I pulled back. "I, uh--," I began oh so coherently, and then I jumped up, almost knocking him over, and raced down the dock. I took off, flying fast, like a rocket." -- best-friends brb-dying confusion feelings friendship funny holding-hands jealousy kiss lol love night otp pain pals weird wings James Patterson
4547f7e No child is born a delinquent. They only became that way if nobody loved them when they were kids. Unloved children grow up to be serial murderers or alcoholics. life love parenting Jeannette Walls
295a5ea Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of production and trade... atheism capitalism causality commerce constitution crisis drugs economics economy force freedom government individual-rights jobs law liberty life love objective-law philosophy political-philosophy pursuit-of-happiness reason regulation rock-and-roll sex slavery society trade tyranny usa volition wealth Ayn Rand
c79359b If life transcends death Then I will seek for you there If not, then there too chrisjen-avasarala haiku life-after-death love love-poetry poetry James S.A. Corey
aff24f5 Watch over Honoria, will you? See that she doesn't marry an idiot. friends humor love Julia Quinn
309d56c "Forget your voice, sing! Forget your feet, dance! awareness awareness-quotes be become beloved conscious consciousness consciousness-quotes dance enjoy feet forget hafez hafiz harmony inspirational kamand kamand-kojouri khayyam kojouri let-go letting-go-quotes life live living-in-the-now love lover moment music present rumi saadi sing song spiritual spirituality sufi surrender voice yourself Kamand Kojouri
cc5f4c5 "I will insist you be man enough to take it. I won't have you making light of my feelings, or making light of yourself--as if you're not worthy of them. Because you are worthy, Colin. You're a generous, good-hearted person, and you deserve to be loved. Deeply, truly, well, and often." He looked utterly bewildered. Well, what did he expect, after the power he'd given her? He couldn't compare a woman to a torrentially beautiful monsoon, and then look surprised that he'd gotten wet. "You reckless man." She laid a touch to his cheek. "You really should be more careful with those compliments." love romance Tessa Dare
6057ad3 Love makes us wake up in the morning with a sense of purpose and a flow of creative ideas. Love floods our nervous system with positive energy, making us far more attractive to prospective employers, clients, and creative partners. Love fills us with powerful charisma, enabling us to produce new ideas and new projects, even within circumstances that seem to be limited. Love leads us to atone for our errors and clean up the mess when we've made mistakes. Love leads us to act with impeccability, integrity, and excellence. Love leads us to serve, to forgive, and to hope. Those things are the opposite of a poverty consciousness; they're the stuff of spiritual wealth creation. love wealth work Marianne Williamson
d4c4d1a "Trains are relentless things, aren't they, Monsieur Poirot? People are murdered and die, but they go on just the same. I am talking nonsense, but you know what I mean." "Yes, yes, I know. Life is like a train, Mademoiselle. It goes on. And it is a good thing that that is so." "Why?" "Because the train gets to its journey's end at last, and there is a proverb about that in your language, Mademoiselle." "'Journey's end in lovers meeting.'" Lenox laughed. "That is not going to be true for me." "Yes--yes, it is true. You are young, younger than you yourself know. Trust the train, Mademoiselle, for it is le bon Dieu who drives it." The whistle of the engine came again. "Trust the train, Mademoiselle," murmured Poirot again. "And trust Hercule Poirot. He knows." love poirot train trust Agatha Christie
04f5658 I'm liking that I can throw any kind of sentence at her without worrying it's too out there. crazy friendship love nick-o-leary norah-silverberg Rachel Cohn
ecb5bc4 Love is a curious mixture of opposites, a blend of extreme selfishness and total devotion. A paradox! Besides which, love, everybody is always talking about love, love, but love isn't something you choose, you catch it like a disease, you get trapped in it, like a disaster. disease love Amos Oz
2e6def4 Be beautiful for yourself, Janie. And only if you want to. If a man is worthy of you, he'll see more beauty in who you are than in what you look like. inspirational janie love sweet Penny Reid
a6c1a3f What made losing someone you loved bearable was not remembering but forgetting. Forgetting small things first... it's amazing how much you could forget, and everything you forgot made that person less alive inside you until you could finally endure it. After more time passed you could let yourself remember, even want to remember. But even then what you felt those first days could return and remind you the grief was still there, like old barbed wire embedded in a tree's heartwood. life loss love pain sadness Ron Rash
a12f7ea Searching for a mind long lost I found it shaping colors and history near the cliffs of your heart. healing love love-heals mystical-passion passion passionate-love rebirth recovery romance survival twin-flames Aberjhani
eca3db8 I know when something is too important to be decided by logic. logic love romance Lisa Kleypas
25f6771 Until the will and the affections are brought under the authority of Christ, we have not begun to understand, let alone accept, His Lordship. The Cross, as it enters the love life, will reveal the heart's truth. christ christian god inspirational jesus lord lordship love will Elisabeth Elliot
8ff496a Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relations of the least-instructed human beings. love George Eliot
0802171 Theologians talk about a prevenient grace that precedes grace itself and allows us to accept it. I think there must also be a prevenient courage that allows us to be brave - that is, to acknowledge that there is more beauty than our eyes can bear, that precious things have been put into our hands and to do nothing to honor them is to do great harm. And therefore, this courage allows us, as the old men said, to make ourselves useful. It allows us to be generous, which is another way of saying exactly the same thing. brave courage generous giving grace kindness life love stewardship Marilynne Robinson
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