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adfff10 The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity--it's envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. emotion life love Yann Martel
a8f74de "I cannot know what the future will bring us," he says in a rapid undertone. "I cannot know where you will be given in marriage, nor what life might hold for me. But I can't let you go without telling you--without telling you at least once--that I love you." I snatch a breath at the words. "Woodville--" "I can offer you nothing; I am next to nothing, and you are the greatest lady in France. But I wanted you to know, I love you and I want you, and I have done since the day I first saw you." "I should--" "I have to tell you, you have to know. I have loved you honorably as a knight should do his lady, and I have loved you passionately as a man might a woman; and now, before I leave you, I want to tell you that I love you, I love you--" He breaks off and looks at me desperately. "I had to tell you," he repeats." love richard-woodville Philippa Gregory
a2e425e Only you could have won me away from the sea. I came back from the ends of the earth for you. fire-and-blood love ocean sailor sea George R.R. Martin
6786d1d What was she hoping to gain from his death? That it would numb the pain of his betrayal, or heal her injured pride? Her red sister didn't know much about love. love revenge Cornelia Funke
e6300b3 Each day before the end of eve she sought her lover, nor would him leave, until the stars were dimmed, and day came glimmering eastward silver-grey. Then trembling-veiled she would appear, and dance before him, half in fear; there flitting just before his feet she gently chid with laughter sweet: 'Come! dance now, Beren, dance with me! For fain thy dancing I would see! dance love the-gest-of-beren-and-luthien J.R.R. Tolkien
81995e9 The emotional place where a marriage begins is not nearly as important as the emotional place where a marriage finds itself toward the end, after many years of partnership. love marriage Elizabeth Gilbert
e191a6a I will give you the sun and the rain, and if they are not available, I will give you a sun check and a rain check. love Elizabeth Gilbert
c385b5d She'd made life poignant for the Irish. The terror she inspired gave peace its serenity; the pain she caused gave health its lustre; her failure to love made me grateful for my ability to do so, and I realized, far too late, that though I never did or could have loved her as she might have wished, I should have loved her more. death love Kevin Hearne
cf28c25 Destructive behavior--or simply behavior that constantly annoys your spouse to the point of desperation--is not right, and there will always be a serious consequence for it in your marriage and personal life. But every attempt you make to rid yourself of that behavior and do what's right will bring reward. Today, ask God to help break any bad habits that you or your spouse may have. love marriage prayer relationships Stormie Omartian
455cde6 Oliver used to have a theory he called Love, etc.: in other words the world divides into people for whom love is everything and the rest of life is a mere 'etc.,' and people who don't value love enough and find the most exciting part of life is the 'etc. love Julian Barnes
cdb619d lm tkn lrwH qdr@ `l~ shH@ bSrh `n shy'b@ lwld@ lmstdyr@ lsmr fwq l`n@ tmman; knt lrwH tr~ fy hdhh lshy'b@ khtman wsmt bh ljsd, wknt tjd 'n tHrk `Dw Gryb `l~ mqrb@ jdan mn hdh lkhtm lmqds, 'mr fyh tjdyf. علم-نفس فلسفة فلسفة-حياة friedrich-nietzche friedrich-nietzsche حب جنس اجتماع كائن-لا-تحتمل-خفته love milan-kundera ميلان-كونديرا neitzsche novel نيتشه philosophy philosophy-of-life political psychological psychology religion religion-and-philoshophy sex sociology ميلان كونديرا
d3af221 I walked out of Rhys's touch--realizing he'd kept silent to let me sort it out. Let me figure out how to deal with both of them, as family, but mostly as their High Lady. feyre love rhysand young-adult Sarah J. Maas
e50b8f2 "He bent over Farid and wiped some soot from his cold forehead. "Roxanne knows it," he said. "She'll tell it to you. Just go to her and... and tell her I've had to go away. Tell her I'm going to find out if the story is true." He spoke with a strange kind of hesitation, as if it were infinitely difficult to find the right words. "And remind her of my promise-- that I'll always find a way back to her, wherever I am. Will you tell her that?" dustfinger farid love meggie pain Cornelia Funke
d0480fa "So I laid a hand on his forearm, savoring the corded strength beneath, and nestled my head back against his chest. "I wish I had days to spend with you-- like this," I managed to say as my eyelids drooped. "Just me and you." "We will." He kissed my hair. "We will." feyre love rhysand young-adult Sarah J. Maas
471abf9 There is perfect love in Heaven! love perfection Anne Brontë
5caf257 Zacharie did not learn of the sorrow his wife was living becasue she was careful to hide it. Tete kept that first love, the stromngest in her life, a secret. She mentioned it only rarely because she could not offer Zacharie a passion of the same intensity; the relationship they shared was genntle and free of urgency. love Isabel Allende
e3def21 dh shkwtu qlylan, fl'nny lst sw~ qlb nsn. whkdh hy qlwb lns, tkhf mn tHqyq 'Hlmh lkbr~, l'nh t`tqd 'nh l tstHqW blwGh, 'w 'nh f`lan l tqdr `l~ blwGh. nn nmwt, nHn lqlwb, khwfan mn Hlt lHb ldhy wlaW~ l~ l'bd, wmn l'wqt lty kn ymkn 'n tkwn 'wqtan ry'`@, wmn tlk lty lyst kdhlk, wmn lknwz lty kn ymkn ktshfh, wlknh ZlWt, l~ l'bd, mdfwn@an fy lrml, l'nn, mt~ HSl dhlk, nt'lWm kthyran mn hwl lm`n@ lty tsbq lnhy@. arabic emotions-love feelings heart human love Paulo Coelho
425a51b She was a soldier, not some girl twisting her skirts at a village dance. love soldier Scott Westerfeld
b2f2886 She's my girl now and I'll do anything for her at any time. I'm in love with her. first-love katie-mcgarry love romance young-adult Katie McGarry
c252299 I want my own bed, in my own apartment. Home sweet home. No place like home. Take me home, country roads. Home is where the heart is. But my heart is here. So I must be home. love Audrey Niffenegger
539501f We're born alone and we die alone, but we get to travel with people along the way, and if you get lucky, you have a worthy consort. love Emma Forrest
ebcdc81 ...I will shed no more tears, like a spoilt child. For whatever happens we have had what we have had. No one can take that from us. And I have been alive, who was never alive before. love Daphne du Maurier
8535d8e Siddhartha began to understand that it was not happiness and peace that had come to him with his son but, rather, sorrow and worry. But he loved him and preferred the sorrow and worry of love to the happiness and peace he had known without the boy. love parenting Hermann Hesse
f275130 I had not been prepared for the simple charm of watching someone you love grow. life love Ta-Nehisi Coates
82c5657 Lost love is still love. It takes a different form. love Mitch Albom
80bbe48 Because the greater the love, the more devastating the sense of betrayal. love relationships Jill Mansell
4546874 They were deeply in love, which beats earplugs. love Salman Rushdie
543396a "Oh, poor baby," she said, mimicking his drawl. "Whew. You're back. There was this other Susie here a minute ago, and she was really nice to me. She scared the shit out of me." She laughed. "They locked her back up in the loony bin." "Good, because there's only one Susie for me--the one who calls me on my crap and doesn't let me get away with jack shit. That's the Susie I need. That's the Susie I've missed coming home to over the last year." He kissed her. "And that's the Susie who's going to leave a gaping hole in my heart and my life if she doesn't give me another chance." -- love pain Marie Force
fe983df Grief is always the price we pay for love love Nicholas Sparks
fe7edd0 Property is not the natural and obvious and inevitable concept that most people think it is. land love natural ownership people property slaves Robert A. Heinlein
ae506b1 Being friends is different from being lovers. It's a sea change. friendship love love-story lovequotes lovers relationships romance women women-s-fiction women-writers Barbara Delinsky
ae76f92 Parents are programmed to want the best for their kids, regardless of what they get in return. That's what love is supposed to be like, right? But in fact, if you think about it, that's kind of a strange belief. Given what we know about the way people really are. Selfish and shortsighted and egotistical and needy. Why should being a parent, in and of itself, somehow confer superior-personhood on everybody who tries it? Obviously it doesn't. franzen love neediness parenthood selfishness Jonathan Franzen
2d6c166 kn ykhsh~ fy 'Glb l'Hyn 'n yjdh jls@ `l~ 'rD ldkn ldhy tshtry mnh lsjy'r. علم-نفس فلسفة فلسفة-حياة friedrich-nietzche friedrich-nietzsche حب جنس اجتماع كائن-لا-تحتمل-خفته love milan-kundera ميلان-كونديرا neitzsche novel نيتشه philosophy philosophy-of-life political psychological psychology religion religion-and-philoshophy sex sociology ميلان كونديرا
1e474cd "He pulled back, staring at her in the dim carriage, his brows still knit. "Megs?" Oh, right. She still hadn't told him. Well, it was his own fault; his mouth was simply delicious. "I love you," she said, speaking clearly so that there might be no confusion." love megs Elizabeth Hoyt
74f3e14 Begin each day with God. It will change your priorities. change christian day faith god hope joy love priorities start Elizabeth George
10a5709 When he asked if he was mine, tears in his eyes, I think he knew what he would do, what he would have to do, and he was mourning us. He was mourning us the whole time. love love-loss Emma Forrest
a55910f We held each other so close that we might indeed have been one body. love romance James Baldwin
b77e0f7 What most people fear when they think of old age is the inability to make new friends. If one ever had the faculty of making friends one never loses it however old one grows. Next to love friendship, in my opinion, is the most valuable thing life has to offer. love old-age Henry Miller
fa2ce1d She has a fixation on love. Strong trouble. The girl left her window open one clear night and it crawled into her body while she was asleep. There's no spell can cure it. daughter-of-fortune fixation love Isabel Allende
8882f49 Love is bitter, death is sweet. life love poetry Jack Kerouac
9bc4792 Everyone has their love story. Everyone. It may have been a fiasco, it may have fizzled out, it may never even have got going, it may have been all in the mind, that doesn't make it any less real. Sometimes, it makes it more real. Sometimes, you see a couple, and they seem bored witless with one another, and you can't imagine them having anything in common, or why they're still living together. But it's not just habit or complacency or convention or anything like that. It's because once, they had their love story. Everyone does. It's the only story. julian-barnes love love-story meaningful relationships the-only-story true-love unrequited-love validation Julian Barnes
7eef63c Make them fear you. Machiavelli said it nearly six hundred years ago, but it's still true. Every ruler should strive for his people to love him. But if they cannot love you, then make them fear you. Love is better, but fear will do the job. love Laurell K. Hamilton
a5ec19a Love is a vicarious principle. A mother suffers for and with her sick child, as a patriot suffers for his country. No wonder that the Son of Man visited this dark, sinful, wretched earth by becoming Man - Christ's unity with the sinful was due to His love! Love burdens itself with the wants and woes and losses and even the wrongs of others. love the-cross Fulton J. Sheen
7eddafd High justice would in no way be debased if ardent love should cancel instantly the debts these penitents must satisfy. love mercy Dante Alighieri
347c822 Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms... life love respect truth wisdom Simone de Beauvoir
dd93889 He switched off the light, came back and sat in the chair. In the darkness, Liesel kept her eyes open. She was watching the words. learning learning-to-read literacy love Markus Zusak
58f0810 But sometimes the key to happiness is just expecting a little bit less. jodi-picoult love romance Jodi Picoult
a6c030f He'd basically fallen in love with her on the spot. Well, no, that wasn't accurate; that implied a binary state, a shifting from not-love to love, remaining static thereafter, and what he'd done with Bronte was fall and fall, increasingly faster the closer they drew, like planets drawn to each other's gravitational force. Doomed, he guessed, the same way. eliot lexicon love Max Barry
3baf9b0 Walk with me, memory to memory, the shared path, the mutual view. Walk with me. The past lies in wait. It is not behind. It seems to be in front. How else could it trip me as as I start to run? loss love memories nostalgia past trip Jeanette Winterson
3ba6d89 Your eyes are as a flame, but our brothers have neither hope nor fire. Your mouth is cut of granite, but our brothers are soft and humble. Your head is high, but our brothers cringe. You walk, but our brothers crawl. We wish to be damned with you, rather than blessed with all our brothers. Do as you please with us, but do not send us away from you. love Ayn Rand
1cd57a0 "And then, with the feather-green darkness pressed against the windows, he puts his filthy fingers on my scrubbed hope face and says, "If I kiss you, it's all over." And then he does. And then it is." love romance sex Emma Forrest
ab08922 When we are loving, we openly and honestly express care, affection, responsibility, respect, commitment, and trust. bell-hooks expression love loving bell hooks
1ee3672 She never had much in this life, but with the simplest things, she made her corner of the world as beautiful as any king's palace. We may lack riches, but the greatest fortune is what lies in our hearts. heart life love material-possessions simplicity stormy-lewellyn Dean Koontz
96f06a0 God is not honored by groundless love. In fact, there is no such thing. If we do not know anything about God, there is nothing in our mind to awaken love. If love does not come from knowing God, there is no point in calling it love . knowledge love thinking John Piper
f82f2df ...So when the weather wasn't too overbearingly hot he tucked her arm in the crook of his elbow, and they walked about town, running errands and asking questions. And falling in love love Julia Quinn
aac28f7 "Do you love me?" James asked suddenly "Yes. I do." I didn't even have to think about it. It was so freeing "I love you, too," he replied. "I've never said that to anyone before." It was so hard to believe. "Really?" He grinned and gazed out the window. "Well, except my first motorcycle, Ramona. But she was a Ducati, so you can blame me. In fact, I think I might have loved her more than I love you." I punched James in the spot between his chest and shoulder." love tandy James Patterson
7051f2c "Gelmek istemiyor gece.. Ne sen gelebiliyorsun o yuzden Ne de ben gidebiliyorum. Ama ben gidecegim. Akrepten bir gunes sakagimi yese de... love Federico García Lorca
9447bf5 I wasn't thanking him for the coin, or even for the trouble he'd taken in stopping to help me. I was thanking him for... well, for something I'm not sure I can explain even now. For showing me that something besides cruelty could be found in the world, I suppose. life love signs Arthur Golden
39a53be If he had even blinked, she would have been gone; but he did not blink, and he held her, as he had learned to hold griffins and chimeras motionless with his steady gaze. Her bare feet wounded him deeper than any tusk or riving talon ever had, but he was a true hero. love wounded Peter S. Beagle
9b0f875 One of the greatest advantages of singleness is the potential for greater focus on Christ and accomplishing work for Him. calling christian god life love marriage potential single singleness work young Elizabeth George
70a307a There's also a lot of random stuff about poetry, flowers and lute music, plus kissing and cuddling (lots of this), wearing similar outfits, talking incessantly about the current object of devotion, and generally losing one's faculties. love lovers Joanne Harris
989ce1c "So why did he do it?" Cricket rakes a hand through his hair. "For the same reason everyone makes mistakes. He fell in love." lola-and-the-boy-next-door lola-nolan love mistakes romance Stephanie Perkins
c854d27 We had bought a kilo of cherries and we were eating them as we walked along. We were both insufferably childish and high-spirited that afternoon and th spectacle we presented, two grown men, jostling each other on the wide sidewalk, and aiming the cherry-pips, as though they were spitballs, into each other's facesm must have been outrageous. And I realized that such childishness was fantastic at my age and the happiness out of which it sprang yet more so; for that moment I really loved Giovanni, who had never seemed more beautiful than he was that afternoon. And, watching his face, I realized that it meant much to me that I could make his face so bright. I saw that I might be willing to give a great deal not to lose that power. And I felt myself flow toward him, as a river rushes when the ice breaks up. love lovers paris James Baldwin
bf346ee Had she stabbed me with a knife, she could not have hurt me more. love Alexandre Dumas-fils
52330aa She is here. And she comes to you, and she does not speak, and the others do not notice her, and she takes your hand, and you ready yourself to die, eyes open, aware this is all an illusion, a last aroma cast up by the chemical stew that is your brain, which will soon cease to function, ad there will be nothing, and you are ready, ready to die well, ready to die like a man, like a woman, like a human, for despite all else you have loved, you have loved your father and your mother and your brother and your sister and your son and, yes, your ex-wife and you have loved the pretty girl, you have been beyond yourself, and so you have courage, and you have dignity, and you have calmness in the face of terror, and awe, and the pretty girl holds your hand, and you contain her, and this book, and me writing it, and I too contain you, who may not even be born, you inside me inside you, though not in a creepy way, and so may you, may I, may we, so may all of us confront the end. death inspirational life love old-age poignant self-help Mohsin Hamid
6e9a385 He wondered how it could have taken him so long to realize how much he cared for her, and he told her so, and she called him an idiot, and he declared that it was the finest thing that ever a man has been called. love Neil Gaiman
bf122a7 I expect it will turn out that sexual intercourse is possible between Gethenian double-sexed and Hainish-norm one-sexed human beings, though such intercourse will inevitably be sterile. It remains to be proved; Estraven and I proved nothing except perhaps a rather subtler point. love Ursula K. Le Guin
f35c547 She wondered why she had never noticed that she did not know his name and why she had never asked him. Perhaps because she had known everything she had to know about him from that first glance. howard-roark love the-fountainhead Ayn Rand
71db68a (...) the woman we love ought to swim as slowly as we do, she ought to have no past of her own to look back on happily. But when the illusion of absolute identity vanishes (the girl looks back happily on her past or swims faster), love becomes a permanent source of the great torment we call litost. inspirational-quotes litost love torment Milan Kundera
c9fee13 they come different and the same with each it is different and the same with each the absence of love is different with each the absence of love is the same desire lack love Samuel Beckett
62aaaf8 "That wish - that prayer - both men and women would have scorned me for - "But, Father, Thou wilt not despise!" I said, and felt that it was true." love prayer wish Anne Brontë
5225a9a Dear friends, he began, there is no timetable for happiness; it moves, I think, according to rules of its own. When I was a boy I thought I'd be happy tomorrow, as a young man I thought it would be next week; last month I thought it would be never. Today, I know it is now. Each of us, I suppose has at least one person who thinks that our manifest faults are worth ignoring; I have found mine, and am content. When we are far from home we think of home; I, who am happy today, think of those in Scotland for whom such happiness might seem elusive; may such powers as listen to what is said by people like me, in olive groves like this, grant to those who want a friendship a friend, attend to the needs of those who have little, hold the hand of those who are lonely, allow Scotland, our place, our country, to sing in the language of her choosing that song she has always wanted to sing, which is of brotherhood, which is of love. friendship love scotland Alexander McCall Smith
72b81a4 I doubt if ever one ceases to love, but one can cease to be in love as easily as one can outgrow an author one admired as a boy. books doctor-fischer-of-geneva graham-greene love Graham Greene
6ceda67 I sit on the bed and kick off my shoes, and he kneels before me and takes the riding boots, holding one open for my bare foot. I hesitate; it is such an intimate gesture between a young woman and a man. His smiling upward glance tells me that he understands my hesitation but is ignoring it. I point my toe and he holds the boot, I slide my foot in and he pulls the boot over my calf. He takes the soft leather ties and fastens the boot, at my ankle, then at my calf, and then just below my knee. He looks up at me, his hand gently on my toe. I can feel the warmth of his hand through the soft leather. I imagine my toes curling in pleasure at his touch. 'Anne, will you marry me?' he asks simply, as he kneels before me. intimacy love marriage-proposal richard-iii touching Philippa Gregory
98b4c7c "You have a freckle," he murmured. "Right" - he leaned down and dropped a light kiss near the inside of her elbow - "here." "You've seen it before," she said softly. It wasn't in an immodest spot; she had plenty of frocks with short sleeves. He chuckled. "But I've never given it it's proper due." "Really." "Mmm-hmm." He lifted her arm, twisting it just a bit so that he could pretend to be studying her freckle. "It is clearly the most delightful beauty mark in all of England." A marvelous sense of warmth and contentment melted through her. Even as her body burned for his, she could not stop herself from encouraging his teasing conversation. "Only England?" "Well, I haven't traveled very extensively abroad..." "Oh, really?" "And you know..." His voice dropped to a husky growl. "There may be other freckles right here in this room. You could have one here." He dipped a finger under the bodice of her nightgown, then moved his other hand to her hip. "Or here." "I might," she agreed. "The back of your knee," he said, the words hot against her ear . "You could have one there." She nodded. She wasn't sure she was still capable of speech. "One of your toes," he suggested. "Or your back." "You should probably check," she managed to get out. He took a deep, shuddering breath." discovery freckle investigation love sex Julia Quinn
72d68bf Mumbai is the sweet, sweaty smell of hope, which is the opposite of hate; and it's the sour, stifled smell of greed, which is the opposite of love. It's the smell of Gods, demons, empires, and civilizations in resurrection and decay. Its the blue skin-smell of the sea, no matter where you are in the island city, and the blood metal smell of machines. It smells of the stir and sleep and the waste of sixty million animals, more than half of them humans and rats. It smells of heartbreak, and the struggle to live, and of the crucial failures and love that produces courage. It smells of ten thousand restaurants, five thousand temples, shrines, churches and mosques, and of hunderd bazaar devoted exclusively to perfume, spices, incense, and freshly cut flowers. That smell, above all things - is that what welcomes me and tells me that I have come home. Then there were people. Assamese, Jats, and Punjabis; people from Rajasthan, Bengal, and Tamil Nadu; from Pushkar, Cochin, and Konark; warrior caste, Brahmin, and untouchable; Hindi, Muslim, Christian, Buddhist, Jain, Parsee, Animist; fair skin and dark, green eyes and golden brown and black; every different face and form of that extravagant variety, that incoparable beauty, India. beautiful city colour empire hate hope human love mumbai shantaram sleep smell-sea sweat sweet Gregory David Roberts
a1d51ec "Despite our earnest efforts, we couldn't climb all the way up to God. So what did God do? In an amazing act of condescension, on Good Friday, God climbed down to us, became one with us. The story of divine condescension begins on Christmas and ends on Good Friday. We thought, if there is to be business between us and God, we must somehow get up to God. Then God came down, down to the level of the cross, all the way down to the depths of hell. He who knew not sin took on our sin so that we might be free of it. God still stoops, in your life and mine, condescends. "Are you able to drink the cup that I am to drink?" he asked his disciples, before his way up Golgotha. Our answer is an obvious, "No!" His cup is not only the cup of crucifixion and death, it is the bloody, bloody cup that one must drink if one is going to get mixed up in us. Any God who would wander into the human condition, any God who has this thirst to pursue us, had better not be too put off by pain, for that's the way we tend to treat our saviors. Any God who tries to love us had better be ready to die for it. As Chesterton writes, "Any man who preaches real love is bound to beget hate ... Real love has always ended in bloodshed." cross crucifixion divine-condescension easter good-friday incarnation jesus-christ love salvation violence William H. Willimon
66331b0 ... the only thing that makes life worthwhile is loving orher people and being loved by them. - Pia Obrian life life-lessons love loving Susan Mallery
29bd029 He was aware, suddenly, of the chill condensing clammily on his skin, the smell of damp cobblestones, of the very air flowing in and out of his lings. But most of all he was aware of the woman, this woman, woman, standing so proudly, waiting patiently for him, only him. He walked toward her and knew with every fiber of his being that he walked to life itself. love Elizabeth Hoyt
73ba08c For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as do the ordinary people, but to fulfill it in its true potential - the imagination. creativity escapism fate love Lawrence Durrell
fa266a6 Children do not find fault with their parents until later. In the beginning, the love you get is the love that sets. family faults love parents Jeanette Winterson
ef758db When there was a choice between love of a woman and hate of a man, her mind could cherish only one emotion, for her love might be a subject for laughter, but no one ever had ever mocked her hatred. hate hatred lesbian love man women Graham Greene
6fc17c9 "Liza Hempstock, who had been Bod's friend for the last six years, was different in another way; she was less likely to be there for him when Bod went down to the nettle patch to see her, and on the rare occasions when she was, she would be short-tempered, argumentative and often downright rude. Bod talked to Mr Owens about this, and after a few moments' reflection, his father said, "It's just women, I reckon. She liked you as a boy, probably isn't sure who you are now you're a young man. I used to play with one little girl down by the duck pond every day until she turned about your age, and then she threw an apple at my head and did not say another word to me until I was seventeen." Mrs Owens stiffened. "It was a pear I threw," she said, tartly, "and I was talking to you again soon enough, for we danced a measure at your cousin Ned's wedding, and that was but two days after your sixteenth birthday." Mr Owens said, "Of course you are right, my dear." He winked at Bod, to tell him that it was none of it serious. And then mouthed "Seventeen" to show that, really, it was." love marriage romance Neil Gaiman
3e60aed It's over, her mind whispered. There's still hope, her heart insisted. love Libba Bray
9794056 Some have won a wild delight, By daring wilder sorrow; Could I gain thy love to-night, I'd hazard death to-morrow. daring love poetry risk Charlotte Brontë
a30dafc "[John] watched the flames for a while. "I would have to say that I find God in serving His children. 'When I was hungry and you fed me, I was thirsty and you gave me to drink, I was a stanger and you welcomed me, naked and you clothed me, sick and you cared for me, imprisoned and you came to me.'" The words lingered in the air as the fire popped and hissed softly. Sondoz had stopped pacing and stood motionless in a far corner of the room, his face in shadows, firelight glittering on the metallic exoskeleton of his hands. "Don't hope for more than that, John," he said. "God will break your heart." fire god love quiet Mary Doria Russell
0e66e15 I should thank you'', she said. His lips stilled, and she felt him smile against his skin. ''For what?'' ''Everything, really. But mostly for being you love personality Julia Quinn
55b50f2 I think the idea is that every person has to live for his or her own life and then make the choice to share it with other people. You can't just sit there and put everybody's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. life live love share Stephen Chbosky
7160d86 He who lives according to God ought to cherish towards evil men a perfect hatred, so that he shall neither hate the man because of his vice nor love the vice because of the man. discernment holiness love Augustine of Hippo
0dd07be ... I since cricket match do long to talk with one of my arms around you, then place both arms round you and share with you, the above now seems sweeter to me than words can say. love E.M. Forster
284906b "Again the ranch is on the market and they've shipped out the last of the horses, paid everybody off the day before, the owner saying, 'Give them to the real estate shark, I'm out a here," dropping the keys in Ennis's hand. He might have to stay with his married daughter until he picks up another job, yet he is suffused with a sense of pleasure because Jack Twist was in his dream." death love Annie Proulx
1729304 Like completing a run, living today begins with preparation, planning, and prayer. christian faith god living love plan prayer prepare run Elizabeth George
f5bc6b8 Oh, if only I could hurt with such misery once again, to feel the powers of love here inside my heart, the joys of heaven and the pains of hell! longing love pain Victor Villaseñor
90573ba "They had been talking about his friend Z. when she announced, "If I hadn't met you, I'd certainly have fallen in love with him." Even then, her words had left Tomas in a strange state of melancholy, and now he realized it was only a matter of chance that Tereza loved him and not his friend Z. Apart from her consummated love for Tomas, there were, in the realm of possibility, an infinite number of unconsummated loves for other men. We all reject out of hand the idea that the love of our life may be something light or weightless; we presume our love is what must be, that without it our life would no longer be the same; we feel that Beethoven himself, gloomy and awe-inspiring, is playing the "Es muss sein!" to our own great love. Tomas often thought of Tereza's remark about his friend Z. and came to the conclusion that the love story of his life exemplified not "Es muss sein!" (It must be so), but rather "Es konnte auch anders sein" (It could just as well be otherwise)." es-muss-sein fate love six-laughable-fortuities Milan Kundera
b0e3bb0 This concern, feebly called 'love of nature', seemed to Shevek to be something much broader than love. There are souls, he thought, whose umbilicus has never been cut. They never got weaned from the universe. They do not understand death as an enemy; they look forward to rotting and turning into humus. love nature Ursula K. Le Guin
fd181d1 Sure, she loves him. But they've got two different ideas of love. He wants to dance with her on a terrace with a full moon and a thirty-six-piece orchestra; he wants to go singing through storms with her, like Gene Kelly. She knows about thirty-six-piece orchestras. You have to feed them, and then there's nothing left for the children. full-moon gene-kelly love practicality singin-in-the-rain thirty-six-piece-orchestras Peter S. Beagle
49b7096 Though reason must guide us in laying down standards and laws regarding animals, and in examining the arguments of those who reject such standards, it is usually best in any moral inquiry to start with the original motivation, which in the case of animals we may without embarrassment call love. Human beings love animals as only the higher love the lower, the knowing love the innocent, and the strong love the vulnerable. When we wince at the suffering of animals, that feeling speaks well of us even when we ignore it, and those who dismiss love for our fellow creatures as mere sentimentality overlook a good and important part of our humanity. humanity love Matthew Scully
5897ca4 I think sometimes we love so deeply, so profoundly, that anything else pales by comparison. debbie-macomber love the-trouble-with-angels Debbie Macomber
6f4b31a Is there just one single love in a lifetime? Are all our lovers -- from the first to the last, including the most fleeting -- part of that unique love, and is each of them merely an expression of it, a variation, a particular version? In the same way that in literature there is just one true masterpiece to which different writers give a particular form (taking the twentieth century alone: Joyce, who explores everything happening inside his character;s head with microscopic precision; Proust, for whom the present is merely a memory of the past; Kafka, who drifts on the margins between dream and reality; the blind Borges, probably the one I relate to best, etc). love Dai Sijie
9eabc67 We all convince ourselves of things like this- not necessarily about Say Anything, but about any fictionalized portrayals of romance that happen to hit us in the right place, at the right time. love romance truth Chuck Klosterman
5655893 He loved her; in some ways he was devoted to her. But he couldn't reach her, and it was the same on her side. It was as if they'd drunk some fatal potion that would keep them forever apart, even though they lived in the same house, ate at the same table, slept in the same bed. longing love love-hurts separation Margaret Atwood
55230c7 ...there's a limit to enduring admiration being a substitute for love. love John Irving
282770c We must all get our hearts broken sometimes. This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something love risk romance Elizabeth Gilbert
49d0095 Mothers are urgently trying to tell something to their daughters, and this urgency is precisely what repels their daughters, forcing them to turn away. Mothers are left stranded, madly holding a lump of London clay, some grass, some white tubers, a dandelion, a fat worm passing the world through itself. daughters family generations life london love mothers mothers-and-daughters repel urgency Zadie Smith
97a5f5f He never even thought of tenderness and emotion; his considerations about Durham remained cold. Durham didn't dislike him, he was sure. That was all he wanted. One thing at a time. He didn't so much as have hopes, for hope distracts, and he had a great deal to see to. gay-romance hope love patience E.M. Forster
31c7863 "When you've tired of me," she said softly, precisely, "Apollo will still be my brother. Will still be there for me." "I'll never tire of you," he said, knowing with every thread of his soul that he spoke the absolute truth. "Then prove it." He knew what she asked with such an open and vulnerable face. Something within him shriveled and died... he'd been on the rack too long for a penance he wasn't sure he could ever entirely pay. "You know..." His voice was hoarse, the croaking of a dying man. He licked his lips. "You know why I cannot." choices love Elizabeth Hoyt
9e5f7d9 "I love you more than I love goats, and you know how I feel about goats", Gaby said." love James Patterson
6d95ae0 "Guilty?" George's face betrayed his surprise. "Whatever for?" "That neither of your brothers ever offered for me." Another thing she probably should not have said. But as it happened, Billie did think that Lady Manston felt this way. And when George's expression slid from curiosity to something that might have been jealousy... well, Billie could not help but feel a little pleased. "So I think she's trying to make it up to me," she said gamely. "It's not as if I was waiting for one of them to ask me, but I think she thinks I was, so now she wants to introduce me --" "Enough," George practically barked. "I beg your pardon?" He cleared his throat. "Enough," he said in a much more evenly tempered voice. "It's ridiculous." "That your mother feels this way?" "That she thinks introducing you to a pack of useless fops is a sensible idea." Billie took a moment to enjoy this statement." idea jealousy love Julia Quinn
26fc479 ... we honor the people we lost by loving again. honor love second-chances Marie Force
090a146 "When she found a place of her own and packed her bags he asked her to marry him. She kissed him, and quoted in his ear, "He married a woman to stop her getting away, Now she's there all day." -- love marriage proposal relationship Ian McEwan
7f8ce71 So love is rest? The cosy corner? The little nook? Sometimes it ought to be. Sometimes it is. love Doris Lessing
22a6217 But Sir Alistair's gaze was different. Those other men had looked at her with lust or speculation or crass curiosity, but they hadn't been looking at her really. They'd been looking at what she represented to them: physical love or a valuable prize or an object to be gawked at. When Sir Alistair stared at her, well, he was looking at her. depth identity love superficiality Elizabeth Hoyt
94e1bce "Our central problem is not sin and guilt, as it is within the monarchical model. For the Spirit model, our central problem is "estrangement," whose specific meaning of "separated from that to which one belongs" is most appropriate. ... For the monarchical model, sin is primarily disloyalty to the king, seen especially as disobedience to his laws. The metaphors used to express the Spirit model suggest something else. For the metaphor of God as lover, sin is unfaithfulness--that is, sin is going after other lovers." love obedience relationship unfaithfulness Marcus J. Borg
dc841c3 When I was in junior high, I used to think I would turn out to be one of the guys, and boys would say, 'Oh, you're so great,' but they wouldn't date me. I thought I wasn't pretty enough. But then I got to Ault and first of all, I'm not really friends with any guys. And then, with you this year, I thought, if Cross will keep hooking up with me, maybe I'm okay after all. But time passed and I never became your girlfriend. And so then I thought, not only was I wrong, but my life turned out to be the opposite of what I expected. Meaning, it wasn't my appearance--that's not the bad thing about me. It's my personality. But how do I know which part? I have no idea. I've tried to think about if it's one thing in isolation or everything together, or what can I do to fix it, or how can I convince you. Then I thought, maybe it is my looks, maybe I was right before. And I never figured it out. Obviously, I didn't. But I've spent a lot of time this year trying. And the reason I'm telling you all this is that I want you to know no one in my life has ever made me feel worse about myself than you. looks love unhappiness yearning Curtis Sittenfeld
0fc53d5 "No-one loves another More than he loves whatever love mistakes vanity Fernando Pessoa
056c1d4 Right now I am like the unborn baby in the womb, knowing nothing except the comforting warmth of the amniotic fluid in which I swim, the comforting nourishment entering my body from a source I cannot see or understand. My whole being comes from an unseen, unknown nurturer. By that nurturer I am totally loved and protected, and that love is forever. It does not end when I am precipitated out of the safe waters of the womb into the unsafe world. It will. It end when I breathe my last, mortal breath. That love manifested itself joyously in the creation of the universe, became particular for us in Jesus, and will show itself most gloriously in the Second Coming. We need not fear. god love nurturing second-coming Madeleine L'Engle
8bbc973 Those who choose to walk on love's path are well served if they have a guide. That guide can enable us to overcome fear if we trust that they will not lead us astray or abandon us along the way. choice fear guidance guide love trust Bell Hooks
99e0704 There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough. inspirational life love soul the-notebook Nicholas Sparks
1588628 Susan had pointed out that everyone has their love story. Even if it was a fiasco, even if it fizzled out, never got going, had all been in the mind to begin with: that didn't make it any the less real. And it was the only story. love love-story the-only-story unrequited-love Julian Barnes
0562c0c You do right by me, I'll show you a life most suckers can't even dream of. book jacob laugh life live love marlena quote water-for-elephants Sara Gruen
ceab6b4 Mattie was in love with Daniel, of course; this was the X within the circle on her map: I love Daniel. love Anne Lamott
a4804fc After you married, Crispin, she said, my heart was broken. I will not deny it. But I did not slip into a sort of suspended life that would be forever gray and meaningless if you did not somehow come back to me. I put back the pieces of my heart and kept on living. I am not the woman I was when I was in love with you and expecting to marry you. I am not the woman I was when I heard that you were married. I am the woman I have become in the five years since then, and she is a totally different person. I like her. I wish to continue living her life. love pices years Mary Balogh
299de82 You are strong, self-reliant, entirely able to take care of yourself and of me... You are fearless, courageous; you saved my life, nursed me back to health, hunted for my food, provided for my comfort. You don't need me. Yet you make me want to protect you, watch over you, make sure no harm comes to you. I could live with you all my life and never really know you; you have depths it would take many lifetimes to explore. You are wise and ancient... and as fresh and young as a woman as... And you are the most beautiful woman I have ever seen. I love you more than life itself. fearless feminism love women Jean M. Auel
0286498 "Jesus did not use hell to try and compel "heathens" and "pagans" to believe in God, so they wouldn't burn when they die. He talked about hell to very religious people to warn them about the consequences of straying from their God-given calling and identity to show the world God's love." jesus love religion Rob Bell
ccf584b Love brightens and purifies the heart. love Karen Cushman
54739e4 "How beautiful that is!" said Laurie softly, for he was quick to see and feel beauty of any kind." love women Louisa May Alcott
235d371 Allow God to use the difficulties and disappointments in life as polish to transform your faith into a glistening diamond that takes in and reflects His love. daily diamond difficult disappointments faith god life love polish reflective transform walk women Elizabeth George
303713b No wife wants to hear that her husband is less than perfect. love perfect shopaholic wife Sophie Kinsella
302c8ed "Just so you know, I.." He stopped. Her heart began to race at the softness of his expression. True love declaration? That would go so far to easing the pain of his treachery "You what?" He gritted his jaw and shook his head. "Nothing" He stepped away, grabbed her shoes, and handed them to her. Fantastic. She'd wanted an I'll Love You Forever, My Darling moment, and she'd gotten footwear. Sigh." love Stephanie Rowe
039d67d And I have to say, books haven't helped much with all this. Because whenever you read anything about love, whenever anyone tries to define it, there's always a state or an abstract noun, and I try to think of it like that. But actually, love is... Well, it's just you. And when you go, it's gone. Nothing abstract about it. love love-quotes relationships Nick Hornby
d8a7708 "Those slight words and looks and touches are part of the soul's language; and the finest language, I believe, is chiefly made up of unimposing words, such as "light," "sound," "stars," "music"--words really not worth looking at, or hearing, in themselves, any more than "chips" or "sawdust." It is only that they happen to be the signs of something unspeakably great and beautiful. I am of opinion that love is a great and beautiful thing too, and if you agree with me, the smallest signs of it will not be chips and sawdust to you: they will rather be like those little words, "light" and "music," stirring the long-winding fibres of your memory and enriching your present with your most precious past." love spring George Eliot
51ed811 Love them that hate you, but you can't love those you hate. love Leo Tolstoy
5720350 She broke my heart, so now I have to write about her forever. It made everything different. It's something that can only happen once. lesbian lesbian-romance love relationships romance true-love Michelle Tea
fce7b3a I love you, Godric St. John, and now I'm breaking my word. I will not leave you. You may either come with me to Laurelwood or I'll stay here with you in your musty old house in London and drive you mad with all my talking and relatives and... and exotic sexual positions until you break down and love me back, for I'm warning you that I'm not giving up until you love me and we're a happy family with dozens of children. love megs Elizabeth Hoyt
4ec5291 Listening, it occurred to Randall that the love people feel for animals is the purest form of love. Loving an animal, a horse, cat, or dog, was always a romantic tragedy. It meant loving something that would die before you. Like that movie with Ali McGraw. There was no future, just the affection of the present moment. You didn't expect a big payoff, someday. love tragedy Chuck Palahniuk
4e73586 Already, I seemed to feel my intellect deteriorating, my heart petrifying, my soul contracting; and I trembled lest my very moral perceptions should become deadened, my distinctions of right and wrong confounded, and all my better faculties be sunk, at last, beneath the baneful influence of such a mode of life. The gross vapors of earth were gathering around me, and closing in upon my inward heaven; and thus it was that Mr. Weston rose at length upon me, appearing like the morning star in my horizon, to save me from the fear of utter darkness; and I rejoiced that I now had a subject for contemplation that was above me, not beneath. friendship intelligence love relief Anne Brontë
6181217 Love should not make us blind to faults, nor familiarity make us too ready to blame the shortcomings we see. louisa-may-alcott love Louisa May Alcott
6bb3ea1 The Source of all things, the luminescence, has more forms than heaven's stars, sure. And one good thought is all it takes to make it shine. But a single mistake can burn down a forest in your heart, hiding all the stars, in all the skies. And while a mistake's still burning, ruined love or lost faith can make you think you're done, and you can't go on. But it's not true. It's never true. No matter what you do, no matter where you're lost, the luminescence never leaves you. Any good thing that dies inside can rise again, if you want it hard enough. The heart doesn't know how to quit, because it doesn't know how to lie. You lift your eyes from the page, fall into the smile of a perfect stranger, and the searching starts all over again. It's not what it was. It's always different. It's always something else. But the new forest that grows back in a scarred heart is sometimes wilder and stronger than it was before the fire. And if you stay there, in that shine within yourself, that new place for the light, forgiving everything and never giving up, sooner or later you'll always find yourself right back there where love and beauty made the world: at the beginning. The beginning. The beginning. life love luminescence mumbai night shantaram stars Gregory David Roberts
49d1ff1 "Quinn spoke their language--all mystery and inside jokes, scarred souls and statement shirts. It was a beautiful moment for him--in his element and completely happy. When they started playing, he leaned over and whispered in my ear. "See that guitar?" I nodded. "That's a 1969 Martin D28. Hear me when I say if I had to choose between a beautiful girl and that guitar, I'd choose the guitar. Natch." He took a huge gulp of water, clearly affected. "Naturally," I whispered. "It could be why you're still single." glass-girl guitar henry-whitmire indie-band laura-anderson-kurk long-distance-relationship love martin-guitar meg-kavanagh music perfect-glass quinn-o-neill rock-band romance teen-fiction teen-literature ya young-adult-fiction Laura Anderson Kurk
75fb03b How can you possibly hope to reform her after the life she's been leading?' 'It's not her I'm wanting to reform - it's me,' he replied. 'Besides, it's taking me into a world where I can do some good.' 'I can't imagine you happy.' 'That's not the point.' 'Of course it isn't. But if she has a heart, she can't be happy either. She can't want you to do that.' 'No, she doesn't.' 'I see. But life...' 'What about life?' 'Life demands something different.' 'Life only wants us to do the right things,' said Nekhlyudov. -Resurrection love philosophy resurrection Leo Tolstoy
3667344 "Dear heart," he murmured, "do not look on me with those dear, scared eyes of yours. If there is aught that puzzles you in what I said, try and trust me a little longer. Remember, I must save the Dauphin at all costs; mine honor is bound with his safety. What happens to me after that matters but little, yet I wish to live for your dear sake." -- france honor love the-scarlet-pimprenel trust Emmuska Orczy
324f04f Life was very sad if there were not - and unbearably so if one's experience with romantic love turned one into an incurable cynic. love Mary Balogh
3230124 That's all kids want to know--that you love them. jenks jenks-from-the-hollows-novels kids love million-dollar-baby parental-love Kim Harrison
8237e04 The worst part is the unknown. The pain of being alone, the loneliness, is familiar. You've dealt with that. You understand it. But loving someone, risking everything, is unknown. There's no way to know how bad it's going to be. You barely survive the pain of being alone, so how can you deal with anything worse? So you don't bother to try. love Susan Mallery
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